#introvert

... all this talking, this rather liquid confessing, was something I didn't think I could ever bring myself to do. It seemed foolhardy to me, like an uncooked egg deciding to to come out of its shell: there would be a risk of spreading out too far, turning into a formless puddle. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#introverts #talking #introvert

Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finish joke: "How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own. ↗

— Susan Cain

#introvert

Being a writer is a very private, internal process. Ultimately I am more the writer, being an introvert. ↗

— Paula Cole

#being #i #i am #internal #introvert

What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#beauty #brains #bright #four #future

The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it. ↗

— J.I. Packer

#extrovert #god #introvert #life

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#extremely #i #introverted #reclusive

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#angst #full #i #introverted #quiet