Beatrice Sparks citations

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

“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”

“I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.”

“Maybe the new me will be different.”

“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”

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

“How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?”

“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.”

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

“Nobody's talking to me, but nobody's hassling me either. I guess you can't have everything.”

“They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!”

“The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.”

“I can't believe that I changed so little. I expected to look old and hollow and gray, but I guess it's only me on the inside that has shriveled and deteriorated.”

“I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?”

“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.”