Quotes About Self-worth

It's as if you pull something around yourself, make yourself look smaller and more insignificant. Than you already are." Nina blinked. "Like you don't want anyone to notice you.

It was almost the cruelest thing he did, not to leave me when I still had the chance of meeting someone else, when I still had a bit of juice left in me. Me and the woman who wrote that book—we both know we're better than that.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

You just want to keep me on this hook, right? So I'll keep chasing after you and you can feel good about yourself. As soon as I start to get over you, you just reel me back in. You're so screwed up in the head. But I'm telling you, this is it. You don't get to have me anymore. Not as your friend or your admirer or anything. I'm through.

I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve . . . I deserve to be someone's number one girl." "You are." "No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?

It' only then that I realize: Peter wasn't the one who needed to get over Genevieve. It was me. All this time with Peter, I've been comparing myself to her, all the ways I don't measure up. All the ways our relationship pales next to theirs. I'm the one who couldn't let her go. I'm the one who didn't give us a chance.

It took a long time for me to get better, but I did. I got better. But suddenly it's like the last four years never happened, and I'm feeling all the same terrible feelings about myself that I did back then.

The look on his face made me want to die. It confirmed every mean and low thing I'd ever thought about myself, the stuff you hope and pray no one will ever know about you. Because if they knew, they would see the real you, and they would despise you.

When boy likes you, you say no thank you. You don't kick him on the ground.

Maybe I wasn't worth remembering.

My second thought was, I'm prettier than her.

I don't want them to have another baby. If they have a baby, I'll be in the middle. I'll be nothing." "Hey!" I object. "I'm in the middle now!

I wasn't giving him permission to make me feel bad, not anymore.

Like, why do I speak? Why did God give me a mouth if I'm just going to say dumb stuff with it?

My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at.

Tardé mucho tiempo en comprenderlo. Fui yo el que puso a mi padre en ese pedestal. Lo hice yo, no él. Y luego lo desprecié por no ser perfecto. Por ser humano.

But I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

If I like a boy, fine, I'll date him, but I'm not going to sit at home and cry over him.

I can't look like a cheap-ass in front of my boys.

mi cuerpo es un templo y no cualquier chico tiene derecho a rendir culto en él. no iré más allá donde yo quiera.

Mairi and Hadley and that kind of girl decide you're not good enough, you never will be. You just won't. And the sooner you realize that, the better. Sherilyn has never figured it out. She's so eager to please and imitate that she ends up going overboard. Like the way her clothes never look right. Mrs. Tallini still picks her school

Before Elaine, Sherilyn was my closest girl friend. I still like Sherilyn, but after so many years of knowing each other, the little things started to pile up and bug me. She cares way too much about what Mairi and Hadley think. It's embarrassing. Even when we were little, she was rushing to impress them, rushing to anything them, and she just never measured

Taylor hacía lo que le apetecía y no le preocupaba mi opinión. Nunca le importaba lo que yo pensase. No era sólo culpa suya, porque yo se lo permitía.

Después de todo, ¿por qué tiene que cambiarse de nombre una mujer por culpa de un hombre? No debería ser así.