Quotes About Inhibited

Being indebted is to be cautious, inhibited, and to never speak out of turn. It is to lead a life constrained by choices that are never your own. The man or woman who feels comfortable holding court at a dinner party will speak in long sentences, with heightened dramatic pauses, assured that no one will interject while they're mid-thought, whereas I, who am grateful to be invited, speak quickly in clipped compressed bursts, so that I can get a word in before I'm interrupted.

When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?

A good example to illustrate the difference between the inhibited and unsatisfied types is the state of their cupboards: the cupboards of the inhibited subtype tend to be nearly empty, and these individuals become anxious if their cupboards are too full while the cupboards of the unsatisfied subtype are overflowing, and they become anxious when supplies start to diminish.

I'm inhibited, isolated, haunted, unknown. However, I haven't compromised myself. And although I lie a good deal, it's mostly whimsical. I'm not living a lie, like the vindicator.

Mirabel was very shy. She'd always been that way.

I've always been hopelessly stuck in the present.

She was like a person with too many clothes on, you know. She couldn't feel the warmth of the sun

Marghe could feel the words bubble under her tongue like lava.