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 SPARKSSometimes 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!
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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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 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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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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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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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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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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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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 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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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 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 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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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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