Rick Riordan Quotes

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.

I've just got a really bad smile. I go for the scowl instead.

I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type really fast to get the lesson done quick because the teacher had a little acoustic guitar, and there was a girl I had a crush on in the class. I would take the guitar and pretend to be some great singer-songwriter, serenade her with joke songs.

When the guy turned around, Amy began stuttering. Silently. It was a feat only Amy could manage, and only Dan could notice. And it only happened in front of boys who looked like this one. He had brown hair and caramel-colored eyes, like Dan's friend Nick Santos, who made all the sixth-grade girls turn into blithering idiots when he looked their way--in fact, would even say Watch, lean make them turn into blithering idiots, and then he'd do it. Only older. "He. Is. Hot," Nellie said under her breath. "You too?" Dan hissed.

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

I was blessed with blonde hair and a baby face - well, I don't know if you'd call that blessed - I don't even remember when I started shaving.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

I was an awkward kid.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

On some level, I think everyone felt like a dork in high school.

Kids have awkward moments.

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.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

Countries are like adolescent entering a dance ... they're sure everybody is thinking about nothing but their inadequacies.

You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.

I was the awkward, shy chick in high school.

I was terrified of girls until sophomore year of high school. I couldn't even borrow pencils from them. I'd have to wait until the teacher called me out on it, like, 'Does anybody have a pencil for Teddy?' because I'd be too scared to ask the girl next to me.

I had curly hair, braces, pimples - you talk about going through puberty and the worst things that go with it, I had it, for sure. And then I had a bottom retainer, so my lisp was really bad. I still have a minor one when I get really excited.

I got my awkward years out of the way.

I'm 87% socially awkward.

I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.

We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.

It's so embarrassing and painful to be young.