{"quotes":[{"text":"It figured my family would get along better with Clark than they did me.","author":"Gwenda Bond","tags":["awkwardness","blue-eyes","broad-shoulders","clark-kent","compassion","falling-in-love","family","friendship","lois-lane"],"id":9159,"author_id":"Gwenda+Bond"},{"text":"For a moment, I tried to see myself through the eyes of the girl with the black hair, or even the boy in the cowboy hat, studying my features for a vibration under the skin. The effort was visible in my face, and I felt ashamed. No wonder the boy had seemed disgusted: He must have seen the longing in me. Seen how my face was blatant with need, like an orphan's empty dish. And that was the difference between me and the black-haired girl- her face answered all it's own questions.","author":"Emma Cline","tags":["adolescence","awkwardness","flirting","self-discovery","shyness","teen-girl"],"id":11463,"author_id":"Emma+Cline"},{"text":"Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. “Mrs. Kaspar” sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son's neck.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["awkwardness","cute","friends","kiss","kissing"],"id":31331,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"Too late; my awkwardness had already made an unforgettable appearance, so, of course, I couldn’t be let off the hook.","author":"Katherine McIntyre","tags":["appearance","awkwardness","relationship","romantic","unforgettable"],"id":32147,"author_id":"Katherine+McIntyre"},{"text":"I'm a lion in a strange land.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ity","awkwardness","beast","courage","different","earth","king","land","lion","loneliness","misunderstanding","misunderstood","odd","original","outcast","strange","strength","strong","weird","world"],"id":54248,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["awkwardness","girls"],"id":107080,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.","author":"Laurie Halse Anderson","tags":["adolescence","awkwardness","emotion","school"],"id":123068,"author_id":"Laurie+Halse+Anderson"},{"text":"He paused at the bedroom door, shut his eyes, took a deep breath, and walked right out like it was any other morning, and he and Jack would be having breakfast as if they hadn't had sex the night before.'Morning,' he said, casting a quick glance over his shoulder.'Mmm,' D grunted.'You done in the bath.","author":"Jane Seville","tags":["awkwardness","jane-seville","morning-after","sarcasm"],"id":141523,"author_id":"Jane+Seville"},{"text":"2. Stutter. I can be on the phone for hours with my best friend, but if confronted by a cute guy, wham! I get power outage, my brain is short circuited. You'd be lucky to get anything out of me besides 'er...Um...Uh...' and a ton of blushing.3.Stumble. I trip over my own feet. Yeah it's easy to do that when you're five feet seven and gangly, but I managed to make the dance teacher cry when I was five years old. Or even worse, I knock things over and spill things over and spill food.","author":"Aya Ling","tags":["awkwardness","girl","teenagers"],"id":150359,"author_id":"Aya+Ling"},{"text":"Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["6th-sense","air","apologetics","awkward","awkwardness","controversial","controversy","freedom","freedom-of-religion","god","religion","senses","sixth-sense","spiritual","strange","tension"],"id":153108,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}