Mary Higgins Clark Quotes

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

It's awkward going to parties with people you don't know, especially when they think they know you.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

Sometimes I don't want to stand around a room full of strangers, chitchatting about nothing, so I'll come late to a party - and leave early. Though now that I'm saying this in a magazine, I'll probably never be invited to another one.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

I don't get any dates; that's the thing.

I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.

I don't like parties. There was never a party I was at where I didn't wish I was somewhere else.

When I go to parties, there's a moment when I think, 'I really don't belong here.'

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.

In high school, I was very unpopular.

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

I am not a very social person and have a few friends who have been with me since school and college. I hate going to parties and events and would rather sit at home and watch TV. Parties are the place where controversies happen.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they said, 'They're just jealous because you're beautiful and talented.' It was probably one of the worst things they could have told me, because I became self-conscious.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

I felt like a misfit at school, and I think that's quite common.