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“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.”
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“Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.”
― After
― After
“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
― Healology
― Healology
“Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.”
― The Goose Girl
― The Goose Girl
“May feel like you're falling', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you.”
― Own the Wind
― Own the Wind
“She holds herself with such reserve. She smiles, but the smile doesn't reach her eyes, even in the company of the girls she's chosen to eat with. Why?
I have no clue, and I really don't want to spend my time worrying about it. But my brain pushes at the question anyway.
Why are people aloof?
Because they don't want to let others in.
Why don't they want to let others in?
Well, sometimes because they're shy, and sometimes because they're convinced of their own superiority.
But those aren't the only reasons. Sometimes it's because thay have something to hide.”
― Bliss
I have no clue, and I really don't want to spend my time worrying about it. But my brain pushes at the question anyway.
Why are people aloof?
Because they don't want to let others in.
Why don't they want to let others in?
Well, sometimes because they're shy, and sometimes because they're convinced of their own superiority.
But those aren't the only reasons. Sometimes it's because thay have something to hide.”
― Bliss
“I'm bored," he says.
"So go home."
"I don't want to. What do you do when you're bored? You don't have Internet or TV. Do you just sit around all day and think about how hot I am?”
― Hopeless
"So go home."
"I don't want to. What do you do when you're bored? You don't have Internet or TV. Do you just sit around all day and think about how hot I am?”
― Hopeless
“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked.”
― Healology
― Healology
“She looked at him, his soft brown eyes and tall form, and contemplated raising herself on her toes and kissing his ear, or his cheek...
Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair.
Mr. Bradford beamed.”
― Entwined
Instead, impulsively before leaving, she reached up and smoothed his mussed hair.
Mr. Bradford beamed.”
― Entwined
“I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in the spotlight; I preferred to blend into the background unnoticed. I felt safer that way”
― Billy and Me
― Billy and Me
“Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.”
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
― Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“That’s the truth of the world, Jessica,” he says, casually full-naming me to let me know something big is coming. “Nobody waves—but everybody waves back."
I hear his mic drop all the way from Chicago.”
― Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
I hear his mic drop all the way from Chicago.”
― Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
“He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...”
― The Midnight Palace
― The Midnight Palace
“Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.”
― The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
― The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World
“His shyness was quickly mistaken for arrogant aloofness, and his schoolmates began to shun him which simply added to his shyness.”
― Summertime and Short Stories
― Summertime and Short Stories
“I sometimes put myself in other people's shoes and feel pity for those who have to deal with my awkwardness.”
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“An introvert is a person who spends a minute with people, and an eternity with themself.”
― Stamerenophobia
― Stamerenophobia
“The more conscious you are of your stutter, the more likely you are to stutter.”
― Stamerenophobia
― Stamerenophobia
“Some perfumes are, like children, innocent, as sweet as oboes, green as meadow sward— Baudelaire.” It was still Emma’s signature scent. On her it smelled like rain in a garden at first, fresh and intoxicating; then as the green top notes evaporated Emma always thought of the earth, of picking flowers in a forest with her mother. The heart note of lily of the valley and jasmine melded perfectly with the base note of sandalwood and musk. Liberty always said the scent was like her— shy but surprisingly fierce.”
― The Perfume Garden
― The Perfume Garden
“[...] follow freely the ideal you've set for yourself and which you must feel within you; be bold and confident in your own powers and strength,
and whatever you say will always be good.”
― Chopin : Pianist and Teacher
and whatever you say will always be good.”
― Chopin : Pianist and Teacher
“They had made eye contact on at least two occasions the previous week, and Mercer was convinced they were ready for the first hello.”
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“Until I became the bridge between us all. I thought that I was a shy person, a sort of trembling leaf. Now I know that I am not a leaf, but a strong branch. I connect the blossom to the bark.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
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