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.
BEATRICE SPARKSMaybe the new me will be different.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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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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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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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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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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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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’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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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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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’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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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Maybe the new me will be different.
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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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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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