The Story of Awkward Quotes

“Love isn’t roses. It’s those little square caramels and a root beer from the gas station because he knows that’s your favorite snack. It’s watching a musical with you without groaning. It’s handing you your glasses at night because he knows you’re too blind to find your way to the bathroom without them. Love is awkward.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“Remember, the way we perceive ourselves is often nothing like what we really are,” he said.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“That awkward moment when you realize running away from life doesn’t mean life won’t pack its bags and follow.” ~Peregrine Storke~”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn’t about being brave. True beauty isn’t about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“This world is built on awkwardness, on the idea that there is someplace where it’s okay to be different. Where it’s okay not to be perfect,” the troll said. “This world lives in more than one imagination. It was simply your hand that finally gave it a face.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story. This is by no means an uncomplicated tale about uncomplicated people. It is by no means sweet or light. This story is ugly. This story is complicated. This story is emotional. This story is tragic. This story is about discovery. It is about hope. It is about one girl’s perception of reality. It is about me, a girl named Peregrine Storke. A girl thought to be named after a bird, but really I’m not. Peregrine means “traveler” or “pilgrim”. I’ve always liked that idea. That I was meant to go abroad. That I was meant to see great things. Instead, I am as awkward as my surname, Storke. It would be better if I were named after a bird. A bird with clipped wings.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“Relationships are as much a work of art as a drawing. It takes time. It takes a lot of erasing, smudging, and redoing. In the end, it’s usually worth it. Sometimes, it’s not.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“True courage isn’t about being brave. It’s about being real. It’s about being able to admit our weaknesses so that we can turn them into strengths.” My”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“That awkward moment when you realize love doesn’t always come full of sweet joy, but tainted with regret.” ~Peregrine Storke~”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“It hurts, the pain, but ask yourself this, is love worth destroying yourself over? You have an amazing amount of love in your life.” He gestured at us. “It’s enough. If Dash truly loves you, then it only makes your life fuller, but if he doesn’t, it doesn’t make your life less rich.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story. This is by no means an uncomplicated tale about uncomplicated people. It is by no means sweet or light. This story is ugly. This story is complicated. This story is emotional. This story is tragic. This story is about discovery. It is about hope. It is about one girl’s perception of reality. It is about me, a girl named Peregrine Storke.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“Even when we grow up, the child remains. It’s the child that shapes the adult. What happens to you when you are young shapes what you become later. Whether you think you belong here or not is beside the point. The little girl that drew Awkward still lives inside of you.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“In truth, it is evil beauty that is most devastating. For beauty isn’t always good and ugliness isn’t always bad. It is how we perceive ourselves that matters. True courage isn’t about being brave. True beauty isn’t about being beautiful. True courage is about being real. True beauty is about being happy.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“That awkward moment when you realize you’ve kind of fallen for a guy who’d make a better huntsman than a prince.” ~Peregrine Storke~”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“because imperfections often hide true beauty.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“That awkward moment when you realize you’ve lived your entire life inside of a picture.” ~Peregrine Storke~ It was raining when my mother pulled up to the simple two-level brick home. Drops of water pounded on the roof of her beat up red Toyota, the sound both ominous and comfortable, before tunneling down her windows in rivers and tiny tributaries. The damp infiltrated the interior, soaking my skin despite the vehicle surrounding us. Rain was never simple this time of year in Louisiana. It always came followed by lightning, thunder, and a myriad of warnings. Leaves blew against the windshield, still full and green from summer, and I watched as one of them stuck against the glass, the leaf’s veins prominent. I wanted to sketch the way it looked now, alone and surrounded by tears, but there was no time. “Don’t forget to call me when you get there,” Mom murmured. Her knuckles were white against the steering wheel, her lips pinched. She wouldn’t cry. Mom seldom cried, she”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“I wouldn’t want perfect love. I want true love, the kind that doesn’t depend on pretending to be better than I am.” I glanced at Elspeth, my gaze soft. “Love isn’t roses. It’s those little square caramels and a root beer from the gas station because he knows that’s your favorite snack. It’s watching a musical with you without groaning. It’s handing you your glasses at night because he knows you’re too blind to find your way to the bathroom without them. Love is awkward.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“True sorrow like true happiness comes from love.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“And we lived awkwardly ever after … The End”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“I wouldn’t want perfect love. I want true love, the kind that doesn’t depend on pretending to be better than I am.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“I wasn’t sure which surprised me the most, the fact that he’d noticed me or the belief that I was unapproachable.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“True courage is admitting when you’re vulnerable.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“It isn’t about being awkward. It’s about not being ashamed to be awkward. It’s about embracing what makes us different. Perfection and Stereotype are threats to that.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“That awkward moment right before you die when you realize you haven’t done enough in life to be considered living.” ~Peregrine Storke~”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“To anyone who has ever felt awkward, this is for you. Embrace what makes you unique.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“He was a bullygog, a monster who spoke in hideous rhymes and had rotten teeth with breath that reeked of smelly cheese.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“I carried a notebook full of pictures; some I'd drawn, and others I'd clipped out of storybooks or magazines.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward

“awkward moment when you realize you’re only human.”
― R.K. Ryals, The Story of Awkward