Awkwardness Quote by Margaret Atwood

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

— Donna Tartt

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

— Ken Follett

“It's only awkward if you let it be.”

— Silvia Donahue

“For weeks I had mistaken his stare for barefaced hostility. I was wide of the mark. It was simply a shy man's way of…

— André Aciman

“His voice was soft and demanding. "How could you think I was pretending?" Damn if he didn't sound sincere.”

— Aria Kane

“It was artificial conversation, but it tided us over the first awkwardness.”

— Agatha Christie

“It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn’t either.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I did not flirt with him; I was being courteous, since you were making the entire situation completely awkward.” “Good, he should have taken…

— C.C. Brown

“We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked…

— Michael Nava

“For I had observed that men did not usually do things unless they liked doing them.”

— Barbara Pym

“Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.”

— ferrrer joey palomar fesico

“I straightened up, pulling just a little away from him. He looked at me questioningly. “Something wrong?” “Nice aftershave,” I said. No need to…

— Laurell K. Hamilton