Go Ask Alice 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

“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'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

“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

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

“Maybe the new me will be different.”
― 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

“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'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

“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 afraid to live and afraid to die.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“It seems like every family has to have one goon, guess whos it on this homestead?”
― Anonymous, Go Ask Alice

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

“…I’d have died without them [books]. 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

“They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“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, Go Ask Alice

“¿Cómo puedo sentirme tan miserable, turbada, humillada, apaleada, y
hablar todavía, funcionar, sonreír y, concentrarme?”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Incluso con mis amigas no soy realmente yo misma.
En parte soy otra; tratando de encajar, de decir cosas apropiadas, de hacer
las cosas requeridas, de estar en el lugar más indicado, de vestir como
visten todos. A veces pienso que cada uno trata de ser la sombra de otro;
compramos los mismos discos y hacemos como los demás, aunque no nos
guste. Los muchachos son como robots, piezas en línea para el montaje, y
yo no quiero ser un robot.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Tal vez ha sido bueno sufrir tanto, pues eso me hará más comprensiva y tolerante con el resto de la humanidad.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Antes pensaba que la única que sentía las cosas era yo, pero realmente no soy sino una parte infinitamente pequeña de la humanidad que sufre.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Tengo este necio temor: el temor de ser vieja sin haber sido nunca joven de
verdad.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“¿Por qué será tan difícil la vida? ¿Por
qué no podemos ser como somos y que nos acepten como tales? ¿Por qué no puedo ser yo, sencillamente, tal como soy ahora, sin necesidad de concentrarme, de mortificarme sobre mi pasado y sobre mi futuro?”
― 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...”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Querido Diario: Han transcurrido mil años lunares, del tiempo lunar. Todo
el mundo ha estado contando historias menos yo. No tengo nada digno que
contar. Todo lo que puedo hacer es dibujar monstruos, órganos internos y
odiar.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice