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.
BEATRICE SPARKSHow can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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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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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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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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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Maybe the new me will be different.
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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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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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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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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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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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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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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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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