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
“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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