Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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Lying - remembering beauty in truth.
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We are all in natural high, It was better than dope or booze or anything.
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Color intermingled with color. People intermingled with people. Color and people intercoursing together.
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I used to think I was the only one who felt things. but I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity. It’s a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would really be a gory, blood-smeared earth.
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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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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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Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.
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I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.
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I feel rotten but I can’t change the way I feel.
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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.
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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.
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I wanted to tell them! I wanted more than anything in the world to know that they understood, but naturally they just kept on talking and talking because they are incapable of really understanding anything. If only parents would listen! If only they would let us talk instead of forever and eternally and continuously harping and preaching and nagging and correcting and yacking, yacking, yacking! But they won’t listen! They simply won’t or can’t or don’t want to listen, and we kids keep winding up back in the same old frustrating, lost, lonely corner with no one to relate to either verbally or physically.
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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.
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It’s a terrible thing but it seems like tragedy brings people together, makes them more supportive, more dependent.
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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.
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I wanted to ask God to help me but I could utter only words, dark, useless words which fell on the floor beside me and rolled off into the corners and underneath the bed.
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I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.
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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!
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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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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?
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Felt great, free, abandoned, a different, improved, perfected specimen of a different, improved, perfected species. It was wild! It was beautiful! It really was.
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I looked at sky this morning and realized summer is almost gone which really made me sad because it doesn't seem as though its been here at all.
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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 guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.