Quote by Helen Oyeyemi

“We stared at each other, bound by common experience, but each looking at the other through the steady crosshairs of inherent distrust.”

— David Grant Urban

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

— Jodi Picoult

“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.”

— Craig Brown

“Of course, such a moment isn't easy to analyze because every social encounter is laden with the unsaid and the unseen.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“And I think they knew. Not anything specific really. They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“The disconnect between his mouth and his mind. That's where the camera came in. It was the unspoken thing between him and the others.”

— Colum McCann

“And there followed a strange, elongated couple of minutes. The kind in which two people know they have to part, and don't want to.And…

— Jojo Moyes

“There was a long moment between them that might have gone differently. Of all the times I saw the two of them together, this…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“It was touching to see them together - it made you laugh in a hushed, fascinated way.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Was it possible that they could both be so unknown to themselves?”

— Daryl Gregory

“I like awkward moments. They are full of tension and suspense. Anything's possible or, at the very least, they are the source of some…

— Donna Lynn Hope

“. I know from experience, that unkind words hurt long after they are said.”

— Trista Hendren