Quotes from Beatrice Sparks

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

Upped but mentally disjointed.

I wanted to write in you.

I think I'd better take some of Gramps' sleeping pills, I'm never going to be able to sleep without them. In fact I think I'd better take a supply of them. He's got plenty, and I'm sure I'll have a few bad nights at home before I get straightened out. Oh, I hope it's just a few.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten and still function, still talk and smile and concentrate?

Une grosse vieille dame à côté de moi se retenait à la courroie et sa robe sans manches laissait voir un incroyable nid d'oiseau sous son bras. C'est la chose la plus nauséabonde que j'aie jamais vue. J'espère que Tim ne l'a pas vue, il en serait devenu pédéraste.

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

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!

I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

It all seems so permanent, so old and new at the same time. But I wonder if I will ever feel completely new again. Or will I spend the rest of my life feeling like a walking disease?

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 be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

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.

I want so much to be someone important, or even just asked out by a boy every once in a while. Maybe the new me will be different.

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.

Tengo la impresión de estar perdiendo el interés por todo. Tal vez se deba a que estoy creciendo o que la vida se esta volviendo más asquerosa.

Adolescenti prolaze teško razdoblje. Odrasli se prema njima ponašaju kao prema djeci, ali o?ekuju da se oni ponašaju kao odrasli. Zapovijedaju im kao da su male životinje, a onda o?ekuju da reagiraju kao zrele, uvjek racionalne i samopouzdane osobe. Teško je to vrijeme izgubljenosti i traženja

Even now I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Her father is a doctor and away from home most of the time just like Dad, and her mother nags a lot but then I guess all mothers do. If they didn't I'd hate to see what homes and yards and even the world would look like. Oh, I do hope I won't have to be a nagging mother, but I guess I'll have to be, else I don't see how anything will ever be accomplished.

felt great, free, abandoned, a different, improved, perfected specimen of a different, improved, perfected species. It was wild! It was beautiful! It really was.

I love Coos Bay, and I love Acid!

We joked and laughed as though the whole world and its secrets belonged to us alone.

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.

She didn't know if she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.