"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."

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Source : Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Beatrice Sparks

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Kill yourself in training so you don't die fighting.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 5, 2012
“The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.”
“As far as my diet goes, I eat what I want. But I think about it. So, if I eat hamburgers and hot dogs for two days straight, then I'll take another two days and then do salads and fish.”
“For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.”
“You don't have to be the best .... But, you have to be YOUR best.”
“I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.”
“I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.”

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