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 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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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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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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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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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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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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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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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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I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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 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 can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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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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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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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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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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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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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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’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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