{"quotes":[{"text":"Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","ashamed","child","children","comfort-station","embarrass","embarrassed","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","lavatory","loo","parent","parenthood","parents","pass","potty-training","powder-room","pride","proud","restroom","satire","shame","toilet","toilet-training","toilets","urinal","washroom"],"id":38212,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. But from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.","author":"Fran Lebowitz","tags":["embarrassed","embarrassment","society","united-states","world"],"id":109585,"author_id":"Fran+Lebowitz"},{"text":"The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.","author":"Henry James","tags":["dasiy-miller","embarrassed","in-love","love","relationship"],"id":119386,"author_id":"Henry+James"},{"text":"I still didn’t turn. Instead, I just listened really hard. I couldn’t tell where he was standing anymore, but I could sense that he was still there somewhere. Well obviously … because he didn’t exactly jump out of the window.","author":"Jaymin Eve","tags":["embarrassed","funny","obvious"],"id":131015,"author_id":"Jaymin+Eve"},{"text":"If you leave without me, I’ll just follow you. You can’t stop me, Cassie. How are you going to stop me?”I shrug helplessly, fighting back tears. “Shoot you, I guess.”“Like you shot the Crucifix Soldier?”The words hit me like a bullet between the shoulder blades. I whirl around and fling open the door. He flinches, but stands his ground.“How do you know about him?” Of course, there’s only one way he could know. “You read my diary.”“I didn’t think you were going to live.”“Sorry to disappoint you.”“I guess I wanted to know what happened—”“You’re lucky I left the gun downstairs or I would shoot you right now. Do you know how creepy that makes me feel, knowing you read that? How much did you read?”He lowers his eyes. A warm red blush spreads across his cheeks.“You read all of it, didn’t you?” I’m totally embarrassed. I feel violated and ashamed. It’s ten times worse than when I first woke up in Val’s bed and realized he had seen me naked. That was just my body. This was my soul.I punch him in the stomach. There’s no give at all; it’s like I hit a slab of concrete.“I can’t believe you,” I shout. “You sat there—just sat there—while I lied about Ben Parish. You knew the truth and you just sat there and let me lie!","author":"Rick Yancey","tags":["ben-parish","cassie-sullivan","diary","embarrassed","evan-walker","follow","leave","lied","read","shoot","stop"],"id":140371,"author_id":"Rick+Yancey"},{"text":"The fear of getting knocked down is less about the pain of the fall and more about the embarrassment in having fallen. And so, to rid myself of the latter is to reduce my concern about the former, which means I just unleashed my life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["consequence","consequences","embarrassed","embarrassment","fail","failed","failure","fall","fallen","free","freed","knocked-down","liberated","liberation","mistaken","repercussion","repercussions","unleash","unleashed"],"id":145852,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I think it's obvious if you're wanted here or not.'Daemon,' hissed Dee, her cheeks red. She turned to me, tears in her eyes. 'He's not being serious.'Are you being serious, Daemon?' Ash turned in his lap, head cocked to the side.My heart was already pounding in my chest when his eyes met mine. His were sheltered. 'Actually I was being serious.' He leaned over the table, staring up at me through thick lashes. 'You're not wanted here.'Dee spoke again, but I was beyond hearing. My face felt like it was on fire. People around us were starting to stare. One of the Thompson boys was smirking while the other looked as though he wanted to crawl underneath the table for me. The rest of the kids at the table were staring at their plates. One of them snickered.I'd never been more humiliated in my life.","author":"Jennifer L. Armentrout","tags":["ash","daemon","dee","embarrassed","humiliated","hurt","katy","mean"],"id":186795,"author_id":"Jennifer+L.+Armentrout"},{"text":"Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.","author":"Carlos Ruiz Zafón","tags":["adventure","embarrassed","tales"],"id":189328,"author_id":"Carlos+Ruiz+Zaf%C3%B3n"},{"text":"He was so cute when he was embarrassed that it was embarrassing me.","author":"Wataru Watari","tags":["bicurious-characters","cute","embarrassed","hachiman-hikigaya","lgbtqia-characters","saika-totsuka","wataru-watari"],"id":232753,"author_id":"Wataru+Watari"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}