Quotes About Insecurity

The bad news is that you're in free fall and there's nothing to hold on to. The good news is that there's no ground to hit.

materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem.26

She cried because she'd had such high, high hopes about the Wheelers tonight and now she was terribly, terribly, terribly disappointed. She cried because she was fifty six years old and her feet were ugly and swollen and horrible; she cried because none of the girls had liked her at school and none of the boys had liked her later; she cried because Howard Givings was the only man who'd ever asked her to marry him, and because she'd done it, and because her only child was insane.

She quickly took a drink to hide her mouth. That mannerism had never changed: whenever Sarah was embarrassed, after she'd told a joke and was waiting for the laughter, or when she was afraid she'd talked too much, she would go for her mouth as if to cover nakedness - with Cokes or popsicles as a child, with drinks or cigarettes now. Maybe all the years of splayed, protruding teeth, and then of braces, had made her mouth the most vulnerable part of her for life.

Proving, proving; and for no other reason than that he was married to a woman who had somehow managed to put him forever on the defensive, who loved him when he was nice, who lived according to what she happened to feel like doing and who might at any time—this was the hell of it—who might at any time of day or night just happen to feel like leaving him. It was as ludicrous and as simple as that.

time and again they read the promise of failure in each other's eyes

She touched it delicately with her fingertips in several places, not in any effort to smooth it but rather in the furtive, half-conscious way that he himself had sometimes touched his pimples at sixteen, just to make sure the horrible things were still there.

How can you talk that way? Frank, has it gotten so bad that you've lost all your belief in yourself?

he was too short a man to do this gracefully

he wanted to discuss his strange compulsion to let people know the worst about himself—this confusion of what was weak and ugly in himself with what was "interesting

Do you think I'm pretty? I think you're beautiful Beautiful? You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

People think I'm unstable, but I tell you, Rose is ten times worse. Of course, that makes it harder for people to fuck with you, so I'm all for it." - Christian Ozera to Lissa Dragomir (Vampire Acdemy)

The bond was so strange at times. Jill was jealous on Adrian's behalf.

He anxiously touched his hair. "I think my hair gel's frozen.

Because she told me - she was afraid that I was moving in on Adrian." "Really? Did you defend our love?

Also, I didn't trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.

Wasn't that kind of the basis of passion? I didn't know that either. The only thing I knew for sure was that this kiss had been a lot like the last one. Nice, but it didn't blow me away. My heart sank. There was something wrong with me. Everyone was always going on about how socially inept I was. Did it extend to romance as well? Was I so cold that I'd spend my life never feeling anything?

We can take her. Besides, he deserves someone who doesn't shop at Gap Kids. -Rose to Lissa on Mia and Aaron

Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?" "Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.

Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Los celos hacen que las personas hagan y digan cosas estúpidas

Oh, the usual. Just some idiots jealous of me being married to the hottest human around.

You were right, about how I fight to stay in control. No one else has ever figured that out– and it scared me. You scare me.