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“If we fear people who can shadow us, we will stay with those who do not give off any light.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“She was, [Wilfrid Riley] recalled, "a very clever person, but you couldn't be at ease with her some way. She wasn't with you. She was up in the clouds, always studying poetry, what have you . . . You couldn't sit with her and converse with her like you can normal people." It wasn't pride, he thought, that made her this way. "Shyness came into it. She couldn't lend herself to people. She was a little bit aloof from people, and I don't think she intended to be.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

“My first prayer was into a purple plastic toy megaphone. I even went into the closet to do it in case God was shy like me.”
― Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us

“Hey, I get you, man,” assured Officer Villalobos. “And what you feel is totally valid—”

“—for Christ’s sake, can you stop saying what you think you should say?” said Gonzales.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost