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.
BEATRICE SPARKSThe 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.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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 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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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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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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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 afraid to live and afraid to die.
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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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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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