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.
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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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 feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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Maybe the new me will be different.
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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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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 not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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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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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How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren’t even physical?
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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