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.
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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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’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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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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It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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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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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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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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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 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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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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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