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 SPARKSMy 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.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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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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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 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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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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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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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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Maybe the new me will be different.
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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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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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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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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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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I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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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 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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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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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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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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