I guess I’ll never measure up to anyone’s expectations. I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.
BEATRICE SPARKSAlone. 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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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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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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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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Alone. The saddest word in the world.
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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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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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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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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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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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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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