Quotes About Insecurity

I went to bed all happy, thinking maybe a boy liked me. It's stupid that that's all it takes sometimes to make you happy.

I'm just not the kind of girl guys think about asking out. Well, maybe they think about it, but they always seem to manage to talk themselves out of it. I don't know if it's because they think I might ram a fist down their throats if they try anything, or if it's just because they are intimidated by my superior intelligence and good looks (ha ha). In the end, they just aren't interested.

He was even more overprotective than my stepfather. But in a boyfriend, that kind of thing is actually attractive.

How do I know Michael hasn't met some other girl? Some Floridian girl, with long,sun-streaked hair, and a tan,and breasts? Who has access to the Internet and isn't cooped up in a palace with her crazy grandma,a homeless,Speedo-wearing prince and a freakish,hairless miniature poodle?

She was the worst person ever. She seriously has got some issues, that Lana Weinbeigher!" (Page 4)

All those guys on the wrestling team, though - they scare me. And they're so homophobic... well, you can't help wondering about their sexual orientation, I mean they all think I'm gay, but you wouldn't catch me in a pair of tights grabbing some other guys inner thigh.

Just because he played his stupid violin at Carnegie Hall when he was twelve does not make him hot.

No one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

Intimidation was a drug. But control was an illusion.

I'm terrified that if they know how much I hate it, they might take it away.

Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.

I did not say that I am afraid. He is, though, I think. Afraid of his own desire for power.

He felt a chill on the back of his neck. It was self-doubt, the black beetle that had pursued him all his life, pinching at him, poisoning his every success, whispering in his ear about his flaws and his failures and his unworthiness. He hadn't felt it in months, but the pinprick of its claws was instantly familiar. They informed him with their tiny tattoo that he had almost certainly done something immensely, irrevocably, and unforgivably stupid.

He reached for a tabletop and ran his hands over it, clutching the edge until his knuckles turned white. He wanted to know that it was solid. Eddis knew that all the world would seem to him insubstantial, as if it might tear away and reveal something else infinitely larger and more terrifying.

That is it, Sophos. You have hit upon my greatest fear. Someone who named himself Bunny is going to outshine me on the battle field.

I don't feel like a hero. I feel like an idiot." "I think heroes generally do, but those men believe in you." "I did wait until I was outside before I threw up.

I'm sure everyone has something about themselves they'd like to change. To dance better, sing better, be stronger or taller. Zikhos snickered. The kings occasional touchiness about his height was well known. The king must have heard, because he said: In Zikhos's case: being smarter than a burnt steak.

Cooking fills me with a dread I can only describe as the sum total of every negative feeling I've ever had about myself. It takes my chronic impatience, divides it by my inherent laziness, and multiplies it to the power of my deepest self-loathing.

He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced--the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

The elevator door opens right into the loft. I was counting on those extra few seconds of hallway before facing the party, the party we are now part of and in, a party with people talking and laughing and having a party time. I think, I am a solid, trying to do a liquid's job.

When I could talk, I said, I don't know what I did wrong. Dena sighed, You care too much.

He's losing weight, I say. He doesn't sleep anymore. It occurs to me that this is how cults weaken the will of initiates. Robert says, It sounds to me like he's in love, and adds that the world's most coveted state is characterized by unrelieved insecurity and almost constant pain.

I felt sure that everyone was looking at me and then realized that no one was, and I experienced the distinct shame of each.