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141 " We wear our problems differently. "
― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story
142 " You lose one friend, you pick up another. "
143 " then I decided I didn’t want any regrets. I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. "
144 " The wall is home base. The wall won't move. If I stand at the wall, I won't be expected to move. This is what it means to be a wallflower. Now I understand. "
― Ned Vizzini , The Other Normals
145 " Why are you bothering? You've got an excuse. You've got bad blood. You must like living; I guess I would if I were you. "
146 " Don't kill yourself, okay? "
147 " You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed "
148 " But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own. It's time for me to be true to myself, like the popstars say. And my true self wants to blast off this rock. "
149 " I wish the world were like this, if I just woke up and marked the food I’d be eating and it came to me later in the day. I suppose it is like that, except you have to pay for whatever you want to eat, so maybe what I’m asking for is communism, but I think it’s actually deeper than communism—I’m asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I’m asking for something that no politics is going to provide, something that probably you only get in preschool. I’m asking for preschool. "
150 " Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others. "
151 " I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to. "
152 " Maybe it was stupid and solipsistic, but I liked to think about me. I didn't want to be part of some trend. "
153 " Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. "
154 " I raise my wrist, show him the bracelets. I have pride in them now. They’re true, and people can’t screw with them. And when you say the truth you get stronger. "
155 " I love you,” I mumble. “Even though I’m a teenager and I’m not supposed to.” “I love you too,” Dad says. “Even though … eh . . . No. I don’t have any jokes about it. I just do. "
156 " in my life is all in my brain, really, so it would be natural that when my brain was screwed up, everything in my life would be. "
157 " If you can’t get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away. "
158 " See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It’s more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or political power, or money, because all those things are predicated by Coolness. "
― Ned Vizzini , Be More Chill
159 " SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think. "
160 " I shrug. I don’t really need to explain this to Aaron. He’s been demoted from most important friend to friend, and he’s going to have to earn that, even. And you know what else? I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to. "