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Beatrice Sparks was an American author born on January 15, 1917, and passed away on May 25, 2012. Known for her works in young adult literature, she is particularly famous for her novel 'The Teenage Wasteland', which was published in 1960 and became a classic in the genre.

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“I love Coos Bay, and I love Acid!”

Inspirational Attitude

Book:Go Ask Alice

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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.”

Cry Hopeless Depressed

Book:Go Ask Alice

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“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?”

Book:Go Ask Alice

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“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.”

Oiseau Nid Pilosité

Book:Go Ask Alice

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“…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 gotten from books.”

Alice Go Ask Alice

Book:Go Ask Alice

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“I wanted to write in you.”

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.”

Feels Drug Wonderland

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“Lying - remembering beauty in truth.”

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.”

Thinking Want Trying Helping Mistake Procrastinating Trying To Change Biggest Mistake

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“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.”

Bigs Frightened Insecure Deep Inside Jocks

Book:Jay's Journal

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“one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young”

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.”

Thinking Happens Kids Voice Drug Alcohol Handle Occult Hooked Chorus

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

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“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 and wear what everybody else is wearing. 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!”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Sometimes Kids Lines Records Fit Shadow Right Thing Robots Right Place Assembly Assembly Line Trying To Fit In

Author:Beatrice Sparks

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

Hurt Hurt So Much

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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.”

People World Whole Parent Hurt Stupid Expectations Treats Whole World Consistently Inferiors Intentionally Hurt

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.”

Firsts Kind Seems Would Be School Life Is Fun Interest Growing Up Teacher Growing Teaching Subjects Becoming Losing High School Dumb Dull Be Kind Becoming More Losing Interest

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“Maybe the new me will be different.”

Different New Me

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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.”

Author:Beatrice Sparks

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

People Life Would Be Earth Blood Good Things

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

Humanity Small Parts

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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?”

Stills Function Miserable Embarrassed Beaten Humiliated

Author:Beatrice Sparks

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

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“I’ve got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.”

Book:Jay's Journal

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“Alone. The saddest word in the world.”

Book:Jay's Journal

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“Sometimes fantasies are better than life.”

Sometimes Fantasy

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“I’m really cracking. No, I’m beyond cracking. I’m shattered. I’m lost. I’m fragmented.”

Lost Shattered Fragmented

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“I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.”

Book:Jay's Journal

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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.”

Thinking Self Feelings Seems Care Hurt Negative Selfish Destructive I Care Self Centered Always Wrong

Book:Jay's Journal

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“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.”

Home School Left Sound Morning Mom Wow Parting After School Parting Words

Author:Beatrice Sparks

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

Important Individual Personality Accepted Entity

Author:Beatrice Sparks

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

Author:Beatrice Sparks

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

Way Difficult Accepting

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“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.”

Believe Looks Littles I Can Changed Expected Gray Hollow

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“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.”

Knows Heart Home Running Wanted Running Away

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

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“I bet the pill is harder to get than drugs--which shows how screwed up this world really is!”

World Shows This World Drug Harder Pills Screwed Up

Author:Beatrice Sparks

About the Author

Born: January 15, 1917
Died: May 25, 2012
Known for: Author
Quotes: 37

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