Quotes About Insecurity

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

What bothers me, I told you in the first weeks after we met, is that I never know when you think I'm interesting.

In my own country I am in a far off land I am strong but I have no force or power I win all yet remain a loser At break of day I say goodnight When I lie down I have a great fear Of falling.

She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone

As she stood on the stone floor she looked a very small, odd little black figure, and she felt as small and lost and odd as she looked.

am one of the ugliest children I ever saw. She is beginning

I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.

So the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin, not smart, too smart, not beautiful, not a woman not not not. All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break.

my love wants to change the world she thinks she has so much to give not realizing how much she takes from others my love is loyal until she senses rejection of any kind then she flies like a bird but has less memory of where she came from i would like to protect you from my love

Maybe I'm afraid of the sword not because I think I might fail to defend us but because I'm not so certain I won't give up and turn it on myself.

we are never strong enough for what we fear will hurt us. We combat it, finally, out of our deepest weakness.

David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!

She used to write all the time,' Elizabeth explained, 'before she lost all that weight. Remember? When she was the butt of everyone's jokes instead of the girl all the boys want to date?

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

Good thing you lost those two pounds, Jess," she told herself. "Dan wouldn't want to put his arms around a blimpo.

Aware of how often she hides her good qualities because she is afraid of being misunderstood or mocked, she accuses herself of being uncharitable, supercilious

One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren't.

She'd written a book, and I hadn't, even if her novel was worse than anything I would have written.

She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No other reason than that. People see the mark of the lion on her. They fail to see what it means.

who'd gazed at David with adoring eyes and dreamed dreams about him. David could have anyone he wanted! Even before he was king, women were falling in love with him. She was stricken with regret and fear as the days passed. If only she had

She watched Sarah inch back until she was pressed tightly against the peeling wall. As though that would protect her. Nothing protected a woman from the cold hard facts.

you can't buy security

He doesn't appear much, does he—one frightened old fat man too weak to support his own flesh without the help of suspensors." It