one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
BEATRICE SPARKSI’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.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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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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 feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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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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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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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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