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"I had to be the world's biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity. Why would I want to do that?"
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"Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There's the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there's the size-doesn't-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem, and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto."
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"There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was."
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"It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others, the way they strangle their dreams - often in the name of love."
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"People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently."
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"Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity."
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"If, like me, you suffer from lack of self-confidence you'll know that the term is made up of two conflicting words, and that confidence isn't easily found in the self."
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"An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, "Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you're not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need."
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"I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience."
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"Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or -- most crucially of all, for a teenage girl -- simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right -- right, down into their clever, brilliant bones -- but lonely."
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"I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade."
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"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."
Nostalgia
"Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior."
Isolation
"See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I'm really feeling. And it doesn't. It's a shortcut."
Communication
"I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.And then Dante came along."
Adolescence
"Did you hear me, Zach? I care about you. 'Okay, I said. 'It's okay with me that you care about me. But can we please not talk about it? Would that be okay with you? 'Yeah, that would be okay, he said."
Relationship
"I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was."
Self-Esteem
"Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely."
Loneliness
"I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life."
Talent
"For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad."
Melancholy
"The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain."
Nature
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