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.
BEATRICE SPARKSThey have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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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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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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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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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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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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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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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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It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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