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The Awkward Quotes

I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
- Pat Barker

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
- Harold Coffin

It's that the silence hanging between us, the awkward and painful glance we share, acknowledges that I'm sitting in his seat. I start to stand up, but Ely shakes his head and gestures for me to stay seated. "It's cool," he whispers. I watch him stride away to the elevator.
- Rachel Cohn

I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
- Douglas Coupland

Full-Private Number One in the Awkward Squad of the rank and file of life was Sloppy, and yet had his glimmering notions of standing true to the Colours.
- Charles Dickens

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
- Federico Fellini

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.
- Jodie Foster

I said goodbye too early, and then stood there enjoying the awkwardness of her lingering presence.
- Jarod Kintz

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

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
- Sister Parish

To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.
- Richard Russo

It was over, the awkward moment, the dreaded moment, sliding past in a ripple of commonplaces, the easy mechanical politenesses that are so much more than empty convention; they are the greaves and cuirasses that arm the naked nerve.
- Mary Stewart

What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
- Rainn Wilson

The first time someone else touched me with the intent to pleasure, I fell in love. Not with that person, but with the act itself. Such intimacy and accord. Even with the awkwardness of first time lovers there was a grace and purity, carnal and beautiful that I knew from that moment on I could never live without.
- Fiona Zedde

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