76 Quotes About Awkwardness
- Author Seanan McGuire
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I am what I am, and there's much about me that won't be changed with any amount of wishing or wanting. I'm sorry for that. I'd trade a great deal to share an afternoon in the hay with you, dust in the air and sweat on our skins and neither of us caring. But I'm afraid the experience would drive me mad. I am a creature of sterile environments. It's too late for me to change.
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- Author Jane Austen
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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.
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- Author Andrew James Pritchard
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But, being that I have always been rather awkward and shy around girls, especially those I liked, whenever I tried talking to them, it’s hardly any wonder that I never got very far. I would simply start to stammer and stutter even before I could properly say hello. In fact, it’s of my opinion that, to them, I must have come across seeming a bit retarded.
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- Author Vanessa Rasanen
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...this felt like coming home, like finding that one place where she belonged after living her whole life feeling off kilter.
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- Author Bill Konigsberg
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He's a good looking guy, no question. All bluster and confidence while I'm whatever the opposite of that is. Apologies and embarrassment. Awkwardness and sorrow. First dead in a zombie apocalypse
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- Author Tessa Dare
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You saw him as disapproving of you. I thought him disapproving of me. Funny, isn't it?"Not only funny, but a strange relief. Why hadn't she seen it? Rhys felt like an impostor here, too. [...]Tilting her head to the twilight sky, she mused, "Do you know what I think? I have a feeling that dour look on Lord Corning's face had nothing to do with either of us. Perhaps he'd just tasted something unpleasant.
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- Author John Fowles
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It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other.
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- Author Victoria Aveyard
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Hi." I nod at them, overwhelmed by their presence and my own inability to act anywhere close to normal.
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- Author Airicka Phoenix
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Friends are great, except, I never know what to do with them. I see other people and it all seems so natural. They laugh and talk and make plans to talk and laugh some more at a later date. I would probably throw a fry at them and hope they were distracted enough not to notice me running away.
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