Beatrice Sparks > Quotes

“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“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, Go Ask Alice

“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“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, Go Ask Alice

“How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?”
― Beatrice Sparks, Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

“Maybe the new me will be different.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, A Pregnant Teenager

“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, Go Ask Alice

“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, Go Ask Alice

“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, Go Ask Alice

“Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“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.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Sometimes fantasies are better than life.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“When I’m with him, everything makes so much sense…when I’m away, it’s so much shit.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“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

“Got my shit together” Definition: I’ve learned how to play it cool. I’ve got some ideas worked out.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Why so much hate in your mind when love is the only way to straighten things out?”
― Beatrice Sparks

“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

“Alone. The saddest word in the world.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Upped but mentally disjointed.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“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

“I have invested my heart. There is a chance that it will be broken but also a chance at unlimited happiness.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“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

“Then there’s me… non-relevant, non-predicable… ass-headed.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“I guess this like everything else bad in life, will pass.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“We are all in natural high, It was better than dope or booze or anything.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“What do you know about love? Are your feelings more holy than mine? Am I exempt from the knowledge of love until I become “of age?” Do I automatically become human enough when I start loving you and seeing things your way?”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Like usual, what I want is not important, what I’m supposed to do that counts.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“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

“I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Lying – remembering beauty in truth.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?”
― Beatrice Sparks

“I feel rotten but I can’t change the way I feel.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“I thought I was unhappy before… I was just a stupid young kid that didn’t know what happiness was. I was like a snot in a candy store who not only wanted all he could eat, but the whole thing. Life is stupid. Stupid. Or at least to this point, mine is.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Ife can sure be a downer.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“You can’t do anything to please anybody or say anything to please them or even dress so they’ll be happy and give you a smile.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“If people are going to keep a journal, they should do it when they’re little, where all the good things happen, before life starts kicking you in the ass and in the head and every other places.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“I only know that I am now a priestess of Satan trying to maintain after a freak-out to test how free everybody was and to take our vows.”
― Beatrice Sparks

“Color intermingled with color. People intermingled with people. Color and people intercoursing together.”
― Beatrice Sparks