Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice...

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

Hell hath no fury like a man embarrassed by a woman

I knew it was Peter playing. I fancied he was trying to tell me something – an absurd idea, but it persisted – ‘I may not be able to spell, but just you listen to...

We made love like flamingoes are pink. You know what else was pink? My cheeks, because I was so embarrassed when I found out that she was the wrong woman.

Where are you guys getting all of this?” I asked. “What does it matter if I – oh come on.”We’d reached the lobby and found Eddie and Micah sitting on a bench together. They at...

On my way out I didn’t look at the dark guy, the suicide bomber, again. I think I didn’t look at him because I didn’t believe he was a terrorist, but maybe I didn’t look...

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval...

I always keep the weather in my pocket, so no matter where I go, I always have something to talk about. Sudden thunderstorms embarrass me.

He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse.

Shut. Up.”Morfyd shook her head. If love always made you this pathetic, she wanted nothing to do with it.

As painful as it may sometimes be, we must not sweep these issues under the rug of embarrassment, silence and indifference,

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive.

There’s a blush for won t, and a blush for shan’t, and a blush for having done it: There’s a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither be anticipated nor controlled. I sigh and make the best of it. I...

Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.

There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman…[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of moving to tap resources that simply weren’t there.