Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.

- Ned Vizzini

I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it off.

- Ned Vizzini

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

- Ned Vizzini

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

- Ned Vizzini

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

- Ned Vizzini

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

- Ned Vizzini

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

- Ned Vizzini

I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.

- Ned Vizzini

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. B…

- Ned Vizzini