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 SPARKSI 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.
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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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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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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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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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 bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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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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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 really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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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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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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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