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Quotes About Shyness

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
You shy, Francesca?" Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. "Not really." I'm just sad, I want to say. And I'm lonely.
~ Melina Marchetta
She smiled with a kind of abashed formality, embarrassed by revelation.
~ Susanna Moore
How you doing?" he asked. "How's everything?" "Fine, thank you," I said, turning my bracelet on my wrist. I felt shy, and it made me uncomfortable. "You always say that," he said. "That's what I'm supposed to say.
~ Susanna Moore
Go fuck yourself!—Dan said genuinely pissed off. Izzy---I've found that I'm a little shy for such blatantly public display of self-affection. Besides, I like to be wined and dined before I have my way with myself. I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy.
~ Suzanne Brockmann
And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.
~ Suzanne Collins
he doesn't meet my eyes.
~ Suzanne Collins
I was somewhat of a mute at school, so people were quite scared!
~ Eliot Sumner
Put me in a room with a songwriter, and I just clam up. I get shy.
~ Shawn Colvin
I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.
~ Eric Clapton
I'm still shy, " I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time.
~ Megan Jacobson, Yellow
It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the bustling world regard the real actors in life's stirring scenes; so genuine, in fact, that the former are usually fain to make it palatable to their self-love, by assuming that these active and forcible qualities are incompatible with others, which they chose to deem higher and more important.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
O, what a joy for a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that he may lift his voice to its highest pitch without hazard of a listener!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a very genuine admiration, that with which persons too shy or too awkward to take a due part in the bustling world regard the real actors in life's stirring scenes; so genuine, in fact, that the former are usually fain to make it palatable to their self-love, by assuming that these active and forcible qualities are incompatible with others, which they choose to deem higher and more important. Thus
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was really, really shy. My dad used to drive me for an hour and a half to go training. I used to finish school, jump in the car, come back, and go to bed. I missed out on socialising with my friends when I was a shy child anyway.
~ Lucy Bronze
There are no shy women,"announced the count. "The modest way they cast thier eyes down merely his their naivety." I was fast coming to the conclusion that there was no need to feel afraid of him. He was only a self-satisfied old git who hated women and liked the sound of his own voice.
~ Kerstin Gier
I didn't notice you actin' all shy when McKane cozied up to you.
~ Kim Vogel Sawyer
FALLIERE WAS TWENTY-EIGHT, with the dark, Gallic looks of someone who seemed like he'd be more at home DJing trance music in an underground Paris nightclub than poring over reams of printed computer code during a commute on the Métro. In reality, he was fairly shy and reserved, and sifting through dense computer code was in fact a much bigger draw to him than spending sweaty nights in a throbbing club.
~ Kim Zetter
Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.
~ Koushun Takami
I hate being shy. I hate it.
~ Kristan Higgins
At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.
~ Kristi Yamaguchi
la timidez dañaba las interacciones sociales de quienes tenían mentalidad fija, pero no dañaba las de aquellos que tenían una mentalidad de crecimiento.
~ Carol S. Dweck
You're after something deeper than a respite from shyness, or a break from private fears and anger. So after a while you alter the equation, make it stronger and more complete. Pain+Drink=Self-Obliteration.
~ Caroline Knapp
It's so difficult for two shy people to manage.
~ J.D. Robb