Doris

“I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live”
― Jodi Picoult, The Pact

“Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it? It's an option taken by a lot of successful people: Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Jesus. Even before high school, I thought that it would be a cool thing to do if I ever got really famous. If I kept making my maps, for instance, and some art collector came across them and decided to make them worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if I killed myself at the height of that, they'd be worth millions of dollars, and I wouldn't be responsible for them anymore. I'd have left behind something that spoke for itself.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough -- just smart enough to have problems.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“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.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story