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.
BEATRICE SPARKSAlone. The saddest word in the world.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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 bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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 wouldn’t intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn’t hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me?
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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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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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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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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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 really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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