Tamora Pierce Quotes

We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'

I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

I was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life.

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

I've always been very insecure and had a lot of self-doubt growing up. That was partially because of how I was raised.

If you are insecure, then you can't be friends with anyone.

I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem; it's mine.

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang)

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.

It's kind of hard to believe that people love me.

No matter what you are, you're a mess." That's what the world tells us. "Every other woman is your competition. You feel bad about yourself and every other woman think she's perfect.

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die ... my voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet.... I'd love to be tall and willowy ... I'm short.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person. So I don't know if I'm angry at myself for not being enough, or if I'm angry at him for not considering me to be enough.

When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way.

Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.

I can't trust the people I care about not to hurt me. And I'm not sure I can trust myself not to hurt them, either.