Awkward Quotes - Page 17

• I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that's true for a lot of women-sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

  Teri McKeever

  Motivational, Girl, Sports

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• He loves us because He is filled with an infinite measure of holy, pure, and indescribable love. We are important to God not because of our resume but because we are His children. He loves every one of us, even those who are flawed, rejected, awkward, sorrowful, or broken. God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Children, Selfish, Love Is

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• It was epic. It was awkward. It was epically awkward.

  Ally Carter

  Epic

  Ally Carter (2013). “Gallagher Girls: United We Spy”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

  David Tennant

  School, Kids, Geek

  "David Tennant: 'My bedpost really has very few notches' - interview". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

  Laurence Sterne

  Work, Dating, Sausage

  "The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy".

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• The wardrobe? It was so full of gowns that he didn't think he could cram himself inside. Besides, it would be awkward if the maid came in to lay out a gown for dinner and grabbed Oliver instead of the blue silk with lace sleeves.

  Jessica Day George

  Thinking, Blue, Gowns

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• The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.

  Darin Strauss

  Cracks, Old Friendship, Pauses

  Darin Strauss (2014). “More Than It Hurts You”, p.233, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Eye, Haste

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1530, BookCaps Study Guides

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• There's little things like that, that we paid a lot of attention to. We don't always know how to bond together to get help or to do something, and our attempts are often awkward, selfish or weird. We talked a lot about how to open things up.

  Remi Aubuchon

  Selfish, Together, Attention

  Source: collider.com

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• I hate meeting new people even new clients who intend to give me money. I try to be pleasant but I'm not very good at it. The best I can usually pull off is 'professional if somewhat chilly.' It's not ideal no. But it beats 'awkward and bitchy.

  Cherie Priest

  Hate, People, Giving

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.11, Spectra

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• There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like it, feel like it's somehow rubbing off on me, like if I was around him enough I would never feel awkward or frightened or insecure.

  Lauren Oliver

  Insecure, Today, Tilt

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• Magnus got to his feet. “I do believe that's my cue to leave as well,” he said. Clary noticed he was avoiding looking at Alec. “I'd say it's been nice meeting you all, but, in fact, it hasn't. It's been quite awkward, and frankly, the next time I see a single one of you will be far too soon.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Believe, Feet

  "City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments)". Book by Cassandra Clare, March 25, 2008.

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• I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Views, People

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.223, The Overlook Press

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• You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Next Day, People, Trying

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• At the door, there was one of those moment when two people realize that they like each other more than they know each other. This is nicer than the opposite situation, but more awkward. You try to remember the protocol for touching. You hate to gush, or presume to much, yet you are unwilling to let the moment pass without without some gesture

  Emma Donoghue

  Hate, Doors, Opposites

  Emma Donoghue (1995). “Hood”

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• Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose.

  Christopher Moore

  Girl, Mean, Enchantment

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• She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Pain, Passion, Heart

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.6, Hamilton Books

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• She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Grandchildren, Often Can, Want

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• You killed my Dad." Any trace of kindness or sympathy vanished from Rixon's eyes. "Well this is awkward.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Dad, Kindness, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.521, Simon and Schuster

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• These are pictures of the people in my family where we look like the most awkward and desperate folk you ever saw, poster children for the human condition.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, People, Looks

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• Our footsteps run, and I don't want them to end. I want to run and laugh and feel like this forever. I want to avoid any awkward moment when the realness of reality sticks its fork into our flesh, leaving us standing there, together. I want to stay here, in this moment, and never go to other places, where we don't know what to say or what to do.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Reality, Laughing

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.155, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Knowing, Reassuring, Foolish

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.

  Doug Stanhope

  School, Usual, Fans

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• I'm kinda stuck in that awkward in-between stage where my hair is just starting to fall out, but I'm still maintaining my youthful acne.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Fall, Hair, Acne

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• You are an alchemist who can turn six beers into an awkward three week relationship.

  Eugene Mirman

  Beer, Alchemist, Three

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