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.
BEATRICE SPARKSI guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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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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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 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 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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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’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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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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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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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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