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Quotes About Insecurity

stanchion, n. I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one either. Why does it feel like it's always one or the other? When we embrace, one of us is always holding the other a little tighter.
~ David Levithan
I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.
~ David Levithan
Let me give you some free advice. She's a runner for sure- she'll run away every time without saying a word. But here's the thing- you are not a runner. And deep down, I don't think Norah wants to run, either. She's just feels like she has to. Partly because she's a tiresome spoiled-brat smartass with no fashion sense. And partly because she's a fucking human being.
~ David Levithan
incessant , adj . The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop.
~ David Levithan
I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.
~ David Levithan
This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.
~ David Levithan
After working for so long on being sure of each other, sure of this thing, suddenly we were unsure again.
~ David Levithan
The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.
~ David Levithan
We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.
~ David Levithan
I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.
~ David Levithan
I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
~ David Levithan
I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.
~ David Levithan
iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?
~ David Levithan
My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.
~ David Levithan
The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.
~ David Levithan
It daunted me that you were so beautiful, that you were so at ease in social situations, as if every room was heliotropic, with you at the center. And I guess it daunted you that I had so many more friends than you, that I could put my words together like this, on paper, and could sometimes conjure a certain sense out of things. The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.
~ David Levithan
don't touch me i said because i can't handle someone being good to me.
~ David Levithan
If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.
~ David Levithan
Because what is more transfixing than the sound of people hating you?
~ David Levithan
hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.
~ David Levithan
I am shy. Sometimes painfully shy. And it's especially painful when someone reminds me about it.
~ David Levithan
want to see you, but I'm not sure if we should do that. I want to hear about what's going on, but I'm afraid that will only start everything again. I love you—I do—but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.
~ David Levithan
You never told me what you saw in him, not convincingly.
~ David Levithan
I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.
~ David Levithan