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Are you too frightened to go any farther?" asked the silk-monkey, who found all this very easy, having four legs herself.
"I'm never afraid," answered Sniff. "But I think the view is better from here.
I'm s-scared to death.
Rather awkwardly shy and therefore at times defensive and rather too assertive
One is always half mad when one is shy of people.
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
skinny as horsehair in a glass of milk
Fear makes you ugly.
I've never been a fluffy sort of woman ...
She's one of those who goes all gooey over small furry animals. Not that it stops her eating them
A very scurvy fellow.
I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.
I might have some issues with fear.
i am so crammed
full of fears
that if you were
to touch me
i might either
fly
or break.
I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it.
I'm pretty neurotic.
was nervous, when she didn't
You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [ ... ] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky."
"We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, comes later.
Describe your state of mine. Insecure. Uncertain. Feverish
I'm guarded; I don't talk much.
I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.
The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
One second she's all timid, and then reeoowr! Hellcat.
I was quite shy.Shy-- Sarah Burton
I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
I'm klutzy, and I don't embarrass easily.
I'm scared of a lot of things.
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.
I've always thought of myself as shy.
Shyness takes so many different forms. Some people are shy and soft. Some, shy and hard. Or in Josh's case, shy, and wrapped in military-grade armor. "Josh,
I was pretty shy.
Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.
I'm afraid of me.
I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?
I'm sort of a slob.
I'm very shy in a crowd.
Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.
I'm a mite worried about how Foodle will respond to being out here," her aunt continued. "She's so sensitive to strange surroundings." Foodle apparently excelled at hiding her sensitivities, for she was chasing her tail with great enthusiasm.
I'm very insecure.
Annoyingly attractive
Not very ladylike.
Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.
I feel so shy so suddenly. So blind, so unnecessarily bold.
We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.
Heartmating hesitating unafraid
You're a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless.
People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I'm 'so tiny', and secondly that I'm 'so sweet'. They seem surprised that they're not scared of me.
I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.
I'm restless, bored, and invisible. A dangerous thing for any woman to be.
I'm the laziest person - that's my normal self. When I'm hanging around my house, I literally look like a tramp. I love being comfortable and having no make-up on.
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island.
I was painfully shy as a child.
The eye is easily frightened.
I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
When I was a kid, I was super shy.
I'm scared of everything except you.Scared-- Egba Terry
Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.
Mind easily mesmerized when frightened.
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
I'm probably a little too uninhibited.
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture.
I'm claustrophobic.
I've got an allergy to looking too neat.
I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.
I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm round someone new, I'm super shy.
Senses disabled by fear.
Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
Are you mad that he's here?" Marie whispered in my ear.
I shook my head while I prepared two vodka tonics.
"Well, you look mad." She laughed at me. "What's wrong?"
"I'm allergic to whores," I said under my breath.
I was shy at school.
I get a little itchy if I don't have some control.
Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?
She thinks I'm too ... impulsive."
"Can't imagine why," Tristan muttered, "when you do things like ride off into the woods after gentlemen in pursuit of a thief
Less squeaky, more sneaky.
I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly.
The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Silly little vamp, afraid of her feelings.
Aw, he's shy. How loveable, huggable, stuff-in-a-bag-and-take-home-able.
Why should he who is scared be careful?
I'm just scared of crowds. I just think people require things of me whenever there's a screaming crowd, and I always think I won't be able to provide what they want, so that's why I look scared all the time.
People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Her nature is like a demonstrative cat's; she is delicate, acutely sensitive to cold, and incredibly caressing in her ways.
Hess laughed. "You know, I thought you were a mousy little thing when I first saw you, Claire, but you're not, are you? Not underneath."
Oh, I am mousy," she said."All this scares the hell out of me. But I don't know what else to do, sir, except try.
Even a mouse bites.
I've always been a shy person.
I'm always afraid of a girl - until I've kissed her. SHE:
In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately his habitual irritable and uneasy aversion for any stranger who approached or attempted to approach him.
We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.
I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose.
Women are most adorable when they are afraid; that's why they frighten so easily.
You know that thing about Death Be Not Proud? Well, Fear Be Not Proud either. And Fear Be Not Elegant. What Fear be is stumbling, bumbling flight, crashing through brush, slip-sliding on pine needles, sloshing through puddles that are always deeper than you expect.
Something about me scares people away.
Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.
People are sheepish when they approach me.
I know I can be very standoffish.
Eschew all those beastly adjectives ...