Anthony Doerr Quotes

I was a slightly geeky kid.

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

I was such a geek in school.

I was a nerdy student.

I've always been such a nerd.

I was an awkward kid.

I was a bookish nerd.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

I was your quintessential nerd in high school.

I was a total dork in high school.

I was really a shy kid.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I really was the nerd in the car that read vocabulary books. If we were going on day trips, I would quite like to have just stayed in the car with my German and French vocab books. It's embarrassing to admit to it now.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

I was voted 'most shy' in seventh grade! Can you even believe it?

I felt like a dork growing up.

I grew up walking out with no music. I wish I had the bottle to dance on but I can't dance.

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

I felt like a dork growing up so this is shocking.

I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

I was a huge nerd in high school. Sure, I socialized - but I was definitely a nerd.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

Kids have awkward moments.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.