Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““I've never been shy. I've just waited until I had something to say.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Was I shy? No. Not shy. Just, usually blissfully indifferent. I liked it that way. It was safer.” — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
“I realize it’s not true that I’m no longer shy; I’ve just learned to talk myself down from the ledge” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“I mean, he’s the kind of guy that when he wants something, he lets it be known. He’s not shy about that at all.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Not shy at all. I just don’t think this is the time or place to remind you how beautiful you looked on your knees in that little curtained alcove, sucking me off and daring me not to make a sound. Ah, see there ya go, shuttering those eyes as if I said something distasteful. You asked, Detective, however if you… — Jessie G Copy Share
“I've been around since the beginning of time, and I’ve never been afraid until I met you.” — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
“The one who would understand me is equally shy to start a conversation.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
“I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong, though I… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“I thought if only we could go on and meet again, shy as strangers.” — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“Just have the patience to hear me out, and I will tell you what I've been about.” — Joseph Plumb Martin Copy Share Image
“I was thinking about how I waited for you. I waited and waited, and you never came.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“He’d never been shy, but he’d always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn’t believe they liked him.” — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
