“I'm not clumsy; just accident prone.”
“I'm not clumsy. It's just the floor hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies, and the wall gets in the way.”
“I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.”
“I'm basically depressive, cynical, prone to intellectualization.”
“Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed...""A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.”
“How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.”