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“Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world,”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Two lads an’ a little lass just lookin’ on at th’ springtime. I warrant it’d be better than doctor’s stuff.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed;”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre