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 SPARKSLying – remembering beauty in truth.
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I’m afraid to live and afraid to die.
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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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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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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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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