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 SPARKSHow can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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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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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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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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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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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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They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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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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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 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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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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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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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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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