Quotes About Insecurity

No sé describir bien lo que se siente ser correspondida, es una especie de tranquilidad condimentada con mucho miedo, porque parece que algo tan perfecto está todo el tiempo a punto de explotar.

Me da lo que quiere darme, sabiendo que voy a aceptar cualquier limosna que venga del rey que le hice creer que es.

No, no soy brillante ni la mejor, no soy la mas coherente tampoco. Soy poco, y de lo poco que soy, poco entiendo.

Nunca les pasó estar con alguien muy hermoso? Ver a esa persona, escucharla hablar, seguir cada uno de sus fascinantes gestos, admirar su belleza… y más tarde mirarse en el espejo y darse cuenta de que uno es horrible y que estuvo creyéndose bello simplemente porque estaba mirando a alguien lindo que resultó no ser uno.

Strong men do choose strong women, he thought. It's only the weak that are threatened by them.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

Ask them. But you're not a soldier, I'm not sure what you are, but you're not that.

Anxiety is not provoked: it tries to find a justification for itself, and in order to do so seizes upon anything, the vilest pretexts, to which it clings once it has invented them.

He's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.

Despite being in her mid-20s she only passed her test a few months ago and is still a nervous driver,

Being with him is like slipping on her favourite fleecy dressing gown and she worries that if she takes it off, she'll be cold and naked and vulnerable

two.' I can't bear the thought of being away from him for that long; he's the anchor to my boat and I worry that I will float out to sea, directionless, without him.

Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted.

Everyone at Coral Tree Prep was good-looking. Really. Everyone. I didn't see a single fat or ugly kid all morning. Maybe they just locked them up at registration and didn't let them out again until graduation.

everyone is scared sometimes to do something. They don't think they can do it. They don't want to fail. They don't want to make a fool of themselves. That's when the courage really kicks in.

Mia: I was sixteen when I first realized my mom was more concerned about my appearance than I was… I'll be talking to my mom and realize she hasn't heard a word because she's studying my face to see if the foundation I'm using is a good match for my skin tone.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

I'm so frightened that I shall be able to accept the notion that I have lost myself only if I imagine that someone is holding my hand.

Only once did she ask a tragic question: who am I? It frightened her so much that she completely stopped thinking.

she is a harmless virgin whom nobody needs. It strikes me that I don't need her either and that what I am writing could be written by another. Another writer, of course, but it would have to be a man for a woman would weep her heart out.

Lo único que estropea la felicidad es el miedo

But I've never known what to do with people and the things I like, sometimes they weigh me down, ever since I was a girl.

Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it.