Rosamunde Pilcher Quotes

I know I'm unpopular.

I've always felt unclaimed.

I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

I felt very alone in Hollywood.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

I didn't ever feel close to my real family. I didn't feel validated; I never felt right because I was always wrong.

Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.