I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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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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 feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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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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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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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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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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 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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