Socially Inept Quotes

“Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“He feels spikes everywhere and rushes to impale himself.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Hotel

“He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included.”
― Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's

“I picked up a book called Anagrams and started to read. I felt someone's eyes on me and looked up. Stuart. I held up the book like someone would hold up a glass. Cheers. Parities, right? Ha-ha. It's that I don't know what to do or say it's just that I've been to so many parties that I'm tired of them and would rather read this book ha-ha so don't worry about me I'll just be here.”
― Lara Avery, The Memory Book

“Over the years, we met every kind of person imaginable. But no one makes worse first impressions than writers.”
― Brian Vaughan

“When walking into a room, worry not. Everyone else is afraid. People are scared of people who are scared of people.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song