14,509 books
—
18,310 voters
“A few steps back is sometimes needed to find clarity in the confusion.”
―
―
“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Growing up constantly being compared to extroverts can be very damaging. Most introverted children grow up receiving the message overtly and covertly that something is wrong with them. They feel blamed—why can’t they answer the question faster? And defamed—maybe they aren’t that smart. Forty-nine of the fifty introverts I interviewed felt they had been reproached and maligned for being the way they were.”[1]”
― Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
― Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
“We may be in particular danger for depression because we internalize our emotions, and we may also carry inside us the dysfunctions of our families in ways that extroverts don’t.[2]”
― Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
― Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture
“We were at that moment of drunkenness that the two of us had come to call the Golden Moment, when everything made sense. We always tried to stretch out that moment, and then inevitably one of us would confess, "I can't follow anymore, I think the Golden Moment's passed.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
Doris’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Doris’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Doris
Lists liked by Doris














