Quote by Samantha Young

“Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.”

— ferrrer joey palomar fesico

“It was true. I wasn't good with liking someone. my instinct was total self-preservation: show no sign of weakness. This was my pathetic way…

— Jennifer Castle

“It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn’t either.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“We had not liked each other much at first. He mistook my shyness for arrogance and I failed to see that his arrogance masked…

— Michael Nava

“Whereas before I had been an open, outgoing, and inquisitive child, suddenly, I was quiet—almost shy.”

— Lin Wilder

“It's chic to be shy.”

— Plum Sykes

“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

“He nodded again and I was tempted to tell him the rule of silence: sometimes an awkward silence is actually far less awkward than…

— Christina Lauren

“He looked into her eyes, stared in awe at the woman who'd been so shy but somehow had become braver than him.”

— M.S. Willis

“He nudged her with his shoulder but didn’t say anything. They stayed like that for a while, enjoying the silence of being alone and…

— Kimberly Derting

“He wasn't afraid. He just didn't care. And that was very, very different.”

— Lauren Oliver