"Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid.……" — Jonathan Lethem
"Listen to me. I’m shy. I’m not stupid. I can’t meet people’s eyes. I don’t know if you understand what that’s like. There’s a whole world going on around me, I’m aware of that. It’s not because I don’t want to look at you, Lucinda. It’s that I don’t want to be seen."
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76 Quotes by Jonathan Lethem
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