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?
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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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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It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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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 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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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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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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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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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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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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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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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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