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Neil Gaiman
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.” Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Jane Austen
“I was quiet, but I was not blind.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Louisa May Alcott
“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes,...” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Jane Austen
“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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