How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
BEATRICE SPARKSI really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
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I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.
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They don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.
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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 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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Maybe the new me will be different.
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This morning when I left Mom’s parting words were, “Come straight home after school.” Wow! Like I’m going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn’t sound so bad at that.
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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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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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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus “Not me! I didn’t think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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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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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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She didn’t know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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