Beatrice Sparks Quotes

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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? 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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Hurt, Stupid, People

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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?

  Beatrice Sparks

  Way, Accepting, Difficult

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• I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Lost, Shattered, Fragmented

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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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. 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!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Kids, Thinking, Shadow

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• Alone. The saddest word in the world.

  Beatrice Sparks

  World, Saddest

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Scare, Minutes

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Sleep, Way

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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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!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Personality, Important, Individual

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Dies

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Hurt, Selfish, Thinking

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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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?

  Beatrice Sparks

  Miserable, Function, Embarrassed

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Believe, Looks, Littles

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Running, Home, Heart

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• I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Drug, Pills, World

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• The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Teacher, Growing Up, Fun

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• one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

  Beatrice Sparks

  One Day, Young

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Insecure, Jocks, Frightened

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Talking

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Real, Book

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Expectations

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• Maybe the new me will be different.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Different, New Me

  "Go Ask Alice". Book by Beatrice Sparks, 1971.

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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.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Mom, Morning, Home

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• It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Life, Blood, People

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