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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This life is beautiful. It’s so goddamned beautiful I can hardly stand it. And I’m a glorious part of it! Everybody else is just… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“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… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to get old. I have this very silly fear, dear friend, that one day I’ll be old, without ever having really… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten and still function, still talk and smile and… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything. — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“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… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth. — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“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… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“…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… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“Dear precious Diary, I am baptizing you with my tears. I know we have to leave and that one day I will even have… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
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