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.
BEATRICE SPARKSI’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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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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They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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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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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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’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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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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