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We wear our problems diffrently

But you know what, it's time for me to stop putting other people's emotions ahead of my own.

Rudy is a mutt; my father says he's a cross between a chihuahua and a German shepherd, which must've been some wild dog sex.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

I just want to not be me.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think ... it's me".

Let's concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble, says the psychologist.

And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

Brooklyn is a big fat blob with its own ugly shape across from Manhattan; it looks like Jabba the Hutt counting his money.

Jimmy may have only a few sentences in his repertoire, but he knows to keep going when pretty girls pay attention to him.

She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

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.

You are blessed with a good mind. You just have to have confidence in it and talk when people call on you.

I'm not afraid of dying; I'm only afraid of living,

I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.

Never touching, never talking, just smiling and keeping our eyes locked.

Life's not about feeling better, it's about getting the job done.

Relationships change even more than people. It's like two people changing. It's exponentially more volatile. Especially two teenagers.

I am a guy," I say.
"And I hate boys," she says.
"But a guy's different," I say.
"Maybe a little," she says.

But I find God to be an ineffectual shrink. He adopts the "do nothing" method of therapy. You tell him your problems and he, ah, does nothing.

Good. Because right now I don't have you pegged as a yuppie. You're something else. I'm not sure what you are, but I'm going to find out." "Cool.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

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

I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

You deserve them because you chose them.

Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.

I made that test my bitch.

The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.

I was still getting 93's, but what the hell, someone had to get them.

The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.

I don't really need to explain this to Aaron. He's been demoted

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

That made me happy. That was my Anchor.

When you mess something up, you learn for the next time.

And you shouldn't assume that everything is always about you.

They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.

If Bobby can get a place to live, I think, then I can get a life worth living.

I'm smart but not enough
just smart enough to have problems.

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?

I jumped in the mosh pit, and some kid punched me in the chin, so I swung on ceiling pipes and kicked people in the head.

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

SUICIDAL IDEATION. That would be a good band name, I think.

Its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

Deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.

( ... ) Since I was a kid."
"Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'"
"Right.

It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

I think you run out of 'I love yous

I had hurt her feelings, I found out later; I didn't know I had that power.

How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time?

Bobby sips his coffee. If there wasn't coffee on this earth, I'd be dead.

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.

Like I'm on the verge of just blowing up. All the stress and pressure and anxiety just bubbling up.

Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right.

I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs.

Up next is Noelle.
'Hey, girl!'
'Don't you dare start calling me that. This is very nice of you to do.

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

I'm going to be here until I'm cured?"
"Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Life is managed".

Time is a person-made concept.

Great, excellent," the guy had said. "You other people are out of a job! Heh heh. Learn comp sci.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

What about: I got Jack and shit and Jack left town.

I have an issue with dogs - I can't pick up after them. It's nothing personal; it just makes me feel like a servant.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the 'Redwall' books.

her cheeks a slight Asian red;

I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.

Every tounge bit had another word to say.

Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.

It is five in the morning. I have woken up without any alarm. I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well.

Don't kill yourself, okay?

One quarter of your life is spent as a minor; you might as well make the best of it.

Life is a nightmare.

I didn't want to be part of some trend. I wasn't doing this for a fashion statement

I picked Ember. After I started working with Mortin.' 'Why?' 'Because embers turn into flames.

I smile to myself. I have a secret: I wish I was Dumbo the Octopus.

Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.

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.

Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.

Where are you supposed to put your arms when you dance? It's like the Universal Question.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.

I'll get up and bike to the Brooklyn Bridge and throw myself off it.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

My one friend is a screwup - a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.

That's worst than gonerreha, man!

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

I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.

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

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.