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.
BEATRICE SPARKSWhy is life so difficult? Why can’t we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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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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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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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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 feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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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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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 bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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