Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
BEATRICE SPARKSThe complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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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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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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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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It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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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’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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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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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 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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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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