Quotes About Insecurity

There is a fine line between a carefree spirit and a fear of failure

Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly.

I typed becasue I had to. I typed because I was afraid I might disappear. --Edgar Mint

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself.

Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't, you couldn't with eyebrows like yours.

I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. IT has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slipcover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

These thoughts have no meaning. They are idiot mantras that exist in a prearranged cycle; I'm no good, I'm the Angel of Death, I'm stupid, I can't do anything. Thinking the first thought triggers the whole circuit.

My friends have hated Asa, first for monopolizing my mind, then for the endless discussions of him they were subjected to, finally, for making me unhappy.

Taken as a whole, men are idiots and fools. They want what they cannot have, and fear what they do have has been gotten too cheaply to be valuable.

He wants me back. The closing punctuation of obviously hung in the air. The confidence in her! Anne would always have it: the certainty that there would be a trail of people following her, wanting her love and her beauty. Flannery saw that confidence, and through the polluted air now between them it no longer charmed her. Not tonight it didn't. Flannery was not inclined to be one of that number.

I can let you in, Eva. I'm trying. But your first response when I screw up is to run away. You do it every time and I can't stand feeling like any moment I'm going to do or say something wrong and you're going to bolt.

Why? Why would you do that?" You have your way of dealing with jealousy and I have mine.

He could shred me so easily. A few words, a desperate look, and I was cut wide open.

The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.

I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back. I'd never let that happen. he promised fiercely. Chapter 8, pg 140

That you can know what i have in me and still want me as much as i want you. i go to sleep every night afraid i'll wake up and you'll be gone.or that i scared you away ... that i dreamed you- no. Gideon. jesus he broke my heart every day. shattered me.

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

One dark brow arched. You're getting the fuck-me look and thinking about Arnoldo? Do I have to kick his ass now, too? Chapter 11 pg. 193

but don't ever forget that he's also Gideon Cross. You've got everything you need to be the perfect wife for a man of his stature, but you're still replaceable, Eva. What he's built is not. You jeopardize his empire and he'll leave you.

I loved him too much. I was constantly worried that I wouldn't be able to hold on to him. He was lightning in a bottle, a dream I tried to hold in my hands.

That he was working instead of spending time with me shouldn't have rankled—I knew how busy he was—but it did. I felt abandoned and needy, which told me I was regressing into familiar bad patterns. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.