58 Quotes by Beatrice Sparks

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

Alone. The saddest word in the world.

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

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.

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

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.

Adolescents have a very rocky insecure time. Grown-ups treat them like children and yet expect them to act like adults. They give them orders like little animals, then expect them to react like mature, and always rational, self-assured persons of legal stature.

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.

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