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161 " Yeah, and she’s really screwed up, as screwed up as me, but I don’t look at that as an insult. I look at that as a chance to connect. "
― Ned Vizzini , It's Kind of a Funny Story
162 " ...one quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it. "
163 " Forget the midlife crisis,” I say. “It’s all about the sixth-life crisis. "
164 " You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. "
165 " Then I get up and turn on the light. (Did anyone notice I was in here in the dark? Did they see the lack of light under the crack and notice it like a roach? Did Nia see?) Then I look in the mirror. I look so normal. I look like I’ve always looked, like I did before the fall of last year. Dark hair and dark eyes and one snaggled tooth. Big eyebrows that meet in the middle. A long nose, sort of twisted. Pupils that are naturally large—it’s not the pot—which blend into the dark brown to make two big saucer eyes, holes in me. Wisps of hair above my upper lip. This is Craig. "
166 " Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? "
167 " I was already obsessed. The test had offended me by giving me questions I couldn’t answer. I intended to kill it. "
― Ned Vizzini , Teen Angst? Naaah...
168 " I don't want to brag, but if I go through this, and I go back to camp, I'll have something unique to talk about. I can be like, 'Hey, not only am I not a virgin, I lost my virginity to a frog-headed exotic dancer.' Will that be something to brag about or something to be ashamed of? "
― Ned Vizzini , The Other Normals
169 " Verbal Greeting, Refusal to Touch Hands, Public Denial of Formerly Agreed-upon Opinion, Refusal to Repeat a Joke and Mortification Event (a catch-all). I use the Humiliation "
― Ned Vizzini , Be More Chill
170 " The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person... "
171 " Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children. "
172 " My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol. "
173 " If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living. "
174 " Wherever Cool is, anyway, I missed it, and now I'm stuck observing these machinations or sex and status and dancing and parties and people sucking at each other under the bleacher seating like some kind of freak, when I'm not the freak; Rich is the freak. Clearly. When I grow up, that had better be understood and I had better be compensated, or I'm going to shoot myself in the head. "
175 " I used to not want to call them shrinks, but now that I’ve been through so many, I feel entitled to it. It’s an adult term, and it’s disrespectful, and I’m more than two thirds adult and I’m pretty disrespectful, so what the hell. "
176 " I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it. "
177 " We came up to the first tower of the bridge, with a plaque proclaiming who had built it; I stopped to read. John Roebling. Aided by his wife, and then his son. He died during construction. But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. I wanted to leave something like that behind. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but I felt like I had taken the first steps "
178 " But your relationship with air—that’s key. You can’t break up with air. You’re kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You can’t be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it. "
179 " Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner.” Dr. Mahmoud leans in. “Life is managed. "
180 " We all live within time. It rules us. "