They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
BEATRICE SPARKSIt’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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I’m partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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I can’t believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it’s only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.
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Sometimes I think we’re all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!
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I pretend I’ve got lots of confidence and I’m a big jock and like that but deep inside I’m a frightened, insecure, can’t-make-it failure.
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Even my parents treat me like I’m stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
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How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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