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My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around. — Molly Tarlov

I wish the awkwardness between us doesn't last long. I want my friend back. — Veronica Roth

He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers
the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. — P.G. Wodehouse

Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away. — Dov Davidoff

I can never be important to any one.'
'What is to prevent you?'
'Every thing - my situation - my foolishness and awkwardness. — Jane Austen

The existence of other people is essentially awkward. — Lionel Shriver

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That's rude; play with it and introduce it. — Donna Lynn Hope

Anger is practical awkwardness. — Charles Caleb Colton

They sat in the companionable awkwardness caused by knowing extremely private things about each other that had never been directly confided. — Jodi Picoult

In other words, it is impossible: we cannot function properly, and the evening ends in confusion and awkwardness, and very early. — Nick Hornby

Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya. She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness and her shoes. — Leslie Cockburn

Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment ... — Alyson Noel

Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy. — Kobo Abe

My forte is awkwardness. — Zach Galifianakis

His warmth, which seemed to presume upon some happy old intimacy we did not share, had thrown me into awkwardness. — Donna Tartt

She was beautiful, but her youth, the very awkwardness of her age, prevented her from flaunting it. — Richard J. O'Brien

You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry. — Charles Yu

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty. — Matt Kibbe

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman. — Ninon De L'Enclos

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too late; my awkwardness had already made an unforgettable appearance, so, of course, I couldn't be let off the hook. — Katherine McIntyre

Show me what you've written, I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it. — Osamu Dazai

Grace and chocolate cake can cover a world of awkwardness. — Lisa-Jo Baker

I'm a lion in a strange land. — Criss Jami

A morning of awkwardness is far better then a night of loneliness — Hank Moody

It was artificial conversation, but it tided us over the first awkwardness. — Agatha Christie

Awkwardness, thy name is vampire. — Chloe Neill

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. — John Fowles

They were just two people sharing a table, trying to limp through the awkwardness. — Blake Crouch

Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart. — E. M. Forster

awkwardness and shame. Still, I turned to food — Judith Newton

I am an inexhaustible source of awkwardness. — Milena Veen

We'd met at university, where he was studying medicine and I was studying social awkwardness and a catastrophic inability to cope with deadlines. — Tammy Cohen

Apparently, the easiest way to overcome any awkwardness of speaking about sex is to sterilize it and outsource it to the professionals. — Matthew Lee Anderson

Do not mistake awkwardness for callousness. Remember, I am a solitary person, as I warned you. I'm not accustomed to easy and warm social exchange. — Irvin D. Yalom

I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member. Much awkwardness ensued. — Patricia Briggs

The awkwardness of adolescence still clinging to them. — Tim Kreider

It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me. — Gwenda Bond

If you don't have anything nice to say ... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness. — Jeff Rich

That awkward moment when you discover the guy you never wanted to know becomes the guy you want to understand. — R.K. Ryals

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness. — Daniel Radcliffe

People are dreams and awkwardness and gawk. — Neil Gaiman

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love. — William Hazlitt

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne

The room was filled with a strange vibe of awkwardness that I was sure could only be dissolved by kissing him again or running away. — E.M. Denning

There is no loneliness more lonely than to be alone in a crowd. No awkwardness more unsettling than the inside joke you do not comprehend. — Claire North

The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite. — George Ainslie

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old. — Eddie Kaye Thomas

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor. — Seth Rogen

Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked. — Veronica Roth

To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. — Ovid

When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere. — Ken Follett

I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then. — Margaret Atwood

The Yanks always wore neckties that leapt out in front of their shirts, as if to announce the awkwardness to follow. — Tom Wolfe

The ease I had come to expect with him had evaporated, replaced by awkwardness, a confusing tendency towards wrong turns and misunderstandings — Kate Morton

Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness — Charlie Flynn

How about I kiss you so we can get past this awkwardness? — Stephanie Bond

Social awkwardness is not a crime. — Idir Aitsahalia

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels. — David Cameron

I have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. — David Levithan

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Alexandre Dumas

There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness. — Jemaine Clement

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison

The woman of her dreams went into her arms without shame or awkwardness as the boldness of Love overcame them both. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

He'd left for a reason, and I didn't want to be anyone's blast from the past. Still, not knowing was worse than any potential awkwardness. — Ilona Andrews

She had the most beautiful awkwardness — Brandon Stanton

Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. — Mike Birbiglia

Awkwardness defines my life. — Alexandra Robbins

Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method. — Erin McKeown

What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things? — Dave Eggers

He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride. — Julie Anne Long

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. — Diane Arbus

Much awkwardness ensued. — Patricia Briggs

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Harrison had turned social awkwardness into a form of social power. — David Brooks

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. — Osamu Dazai

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. — Ruta Sepetys

Oh no, a human feeling awkward. How terrible. — T. Kingfisher

So you think we can be friends?" Elle asked. "No jealousy? No awkwardness?"
"Jealousy is a sign of insecurity. He adores me," Juliette said. — Tiffany Reisz

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families. — Patrick McGrath

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. — Lord Chesterfield

God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting. — Janeane Garofalo