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Quotes About Awkwardness

I'm not backing down until you talk to me. What? I asked, cupping my hand to my ear. I can't hear you over the flapping sound of my loose vagina. The corner of his mouth lifted, and he almost laughed. Is that what that noise is? he asked. I thought it was the air conditioner.
~ Erin McCarthy
Just me, rocking the awk.
~ Erin McCarthy
he was at only twenty-eight, witnessing their most uptight female friend asking to see their junk at four in the afternoon. She rolled her eyes at
~ Erin McCarthy
MR. SMITH: Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. [Silence.] MR. MARTIN: Don't you feel well? [Silence.] MRS. SMITH: No, he's wet his pants. [Silence.] MRS. MARTIN: Oh, sir, at your age, you shouldn't. [Silence.] MR. SMITH: The heart is ageless. [Silence.]
~ Eugene Ionesco
I said a silent prayer. Actually, silent is probably the only type of prayer a guy should attempt when his head's in a toilet.
~ Andrew Smith
Um, am I the only person who is walking around without underwear on today? I know I can't be. This isn't the first time this has happened to me, and I know if it's happened to me more than once, it's happened to someone else at least one time. I'm three quarters short of clean draws.
~ Angela Nissel
Have dinner with me tonight." Augusta blinked, mind blank. Then said, "The five-second rule applies here. You can take the invite back and we can pretend you never asked." He scowled and repeated, "Have dinner with me.
~ Ann Bruce
Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.
~ Rider Strong
You don't need to have Asperger's to feel bewildered in a culture that relies so heavily on inconsequential chit-chat to grease the wheels of day-to-day life.
~ Lynn Coady
I'm a great salesman when I believe in a product that somebody else is producing, but I always feel very awkward and clumsy asking for money for my work.
~ Mark Waid
By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.
~ Sheri L. Dew
After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
~ Seth Rogen
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
~ Marian Keyes
My awkward stage extended well into high school.
~ Rachelle Lefevre
All my life I have faced this awkwardness, as I almost sound like a guy. In fact, whenever I would call my friends, their dads would say, 'Hold on son.'
~ Swara Bhaskar
I've got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me - it was a real masterclass - on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.
~ Finty Williams
Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.
~ Dave Gahan
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.
~ Graham Moore
What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
~ G. Willow Wilson
No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.
~ Aimee Teegarden
Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.
~ Eddie Kaye Thomas
Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
~ Ed Sullivan
I was nearly christened Eric Bloom Strike,' he said and Robin choked on her water. He laughed as she coughed into a napkin. 'Let's face it, Cormoran's not much bloody better. Cormoran Blue—' ' Blue? ' 'Blue Öyster Cult, aren't you listening?' 'God,' said Robin. 'You keep that quiet.' 'Wouldn't you?
~ Robert Galbraith
She was almost monosyllabic among the buckets of mimosa and lilies a quarter of an hour later. The florist fussed and fiddled, holding blooms against Robin's hair and accidentally letting drops of cold, greenish water fall from the long stem of a rose onto her cream sweater.
~ Robert Galbraith