I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
BEATRICE SPARKSI’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.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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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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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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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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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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I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs–which shows how screwed up this world really is!
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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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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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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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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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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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