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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

I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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Afraid Dies Live
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
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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Good Life Minutes Rest Scare
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
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
Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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Better Fantasy Life Sometimes
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
How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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Hurt Physical Thought
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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Expectations Like Measure
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
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
Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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Saddest World
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
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
The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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Bottom Complete Fallen Life
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

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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