Jojo Moyes Quotes

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

There is a major part of who I am that does not feel like the alpha male.

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

No matter how I look, the freak inside me leaks out.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

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.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

If I put on a tie and play what I really think I am, I'm a disaster.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I read somewhere that failure is an event, not a person, but I never feel that way. It's who I am.

The first three years my hair was purple, I still was trying to convince myself that I hated the color purple.

I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

I used to consider myself weak.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

I say whatever I want, I look whatever I want. That doesn't mean I don't question myself and feel insecure.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.