Quotes About Insecurity

Do people ever get over being shy? I think it's with you for life-like the color of your eyes.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.

I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grown and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless stupid worthless stupid worthless stupid freak.

But in that moment, I don't know what to say. Everything that's wrong with me seems made up because it's not like I can point to any of it and actually show them.

it starts thinking of every way in which Violet Markey might break my heart.

The only crime I committed was being fat.

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I feel jealous, just for a second, of his brain. In this moment, mine feels so ordinary.

I am trying not to let it bother me because jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside.

Sometimes people are just sh*tty. Sometimes they're sh*tty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be sh*tty to others before others can be sh*tty to them.

Every book I read and every movies I watched seems to give out the same message: high school is the worst experience you can ever have.

Worthless, stupid. THese are the words that I grew up hearing. They're the words I try to outrun, because if I let them in, they might stay there and grow and fill me up and in, until the only thing left of me is worthless, stupid...

I can barely hear her because I am trapped in my mind and body, shivering and afraid. I suddenly feel like I have face blindness because no one looks familiar or nice, and my eyes are flying all over the gym, searching for help.

Why should what i weigh affect other people? I mean, unless I'm sitting on them, who cares?

It's been my experience that the people who are most afraid are the ones who hide behind mean and threatening words.

And in that moment there's nothing I fear except losing hold of her hand.

The first thing I learned from Judy Blume was that God is the wrong one to ask for bigger breasts. (Stephanie Lessing)

I'm not cut out to be a famous person I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal and Bridget Jones put together, which was probably about how much I weighed...

As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn't matter, I knew that to her it did.