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 SPARKSHow is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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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 really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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’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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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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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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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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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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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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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