How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?
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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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 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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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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The complete bottom has fallen out of my 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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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 not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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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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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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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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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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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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