Quotes About Insecurity

No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom whose eyes worked but I don't think you can.

I scared myself, because once you've thought long and hard enough about doing something that is colossally stupid, you feel like you've actually done it, and then you're never quite sure what your limits are.

I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

I'm the girl who trips on the dance floor and can't find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.

I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

I can't stop biting my lips. It looks like my mouth belongs to someone else, someone else, someone I don't even know.

It is easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

I'm sure I was a huge disappointment. I'm not pretty or smart or athletic. I'm just like them—an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies.

The nasty voices are always on call.

I'm one of those people who never knows what to say, so I say nothing. Then people think I am a snob. Or if I do say something, half the time I blurt out the wrong thing and embarrass myself.

We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone

Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.

Expert Tip: "The day will come when you fervently wish that you are only as fat as you were the FIRST time you thought you were fat."—Michelle Loyet, MAW, whom I've been on vacation with numerous times

In the Anthropologie mirror, I saw wrinkles, dents, flaps, bumps, and something that caused me to say to myself, "I hope that's a tumor and not a horn.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

I know people who believe in ghosts but don't believe in themselves. It's kind of sad. Okay you don't think you'll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

Every kid's afraid of that right? That someday you'll be left in a corner, like a toy, staring with button eyes and a broken heart.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Sometimes, the girls hug all boys except me, and I just smile, but it hurts.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.