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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.

Beatrice Sparks

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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Kids Thinking Voice
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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Frightened Insecure Jocks
I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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Drug Feels Wonderland
I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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Fragmented Lost Shattered
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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Mistakes Thinking Trying
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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Hurt Selfish Thinking
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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Home Mom Morning
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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Accepting Difficult Way
I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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Escape Sleep Way
Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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Everything Guess Nobody Talking
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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Book Part Real Really
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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Kids Shadow Thinking
How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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Hurt Physical Thought
It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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Blood Life People
Maybe the new me will be different.
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Different Maybe New
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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Believe Littles Looks

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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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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