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 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.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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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 bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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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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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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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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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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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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 fantasies are better than life.
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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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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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