Quotes About Shy

She raised her face to the canopy and took a deep breath, as if trying to hold on to her temper. He wondered if she'd succeed. His Tally had always been very quiet…except with him. He alone had known that she was neither shy nor particularly calm. The girl had a temper like a stick of dynamite. Quick to heat, quick to blow over.

The King paused at the door, suddenly looking almost shy. "I don't wish to be bold, or to instruct you of matters that are none of my concern," he began, and I froze, fearful of what was coming. "But I like you in blue," he finished, and disappeared.

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

They like bright colors," she said. He smiled at her, those dark tameless eyes, half-bold and half-shy. "They like beautiful things," he said.

Fundamentally, I've always been shy—an extroverted introvert,overcompensating with performative social-butterfly behavior.

There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it.

The road ran along the north side of the river, a shy and obsequious road that dodged every bank and lift and wound through the pecan trees and never insisted on its own way.