Is that the truth, Jimmy?" I ask without looking at him. "It's the truth and it come to ya!" I smile.
Ned VizziniIf there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.
Ned VizziniThe Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
Ned VizziniI eat not because I want to, not because I have to overcome anything, not to prove myself to anyone, but because it's there. I eat because that's what people do. And somehow when the food is put in front of you by an institution, when there's a large gray force behind it and you don't have to thank anyone for it, you have the animal instinct to make it disappear.
Ned Vizzini