Lesley Poles Hartley Quotes

I've always been kind of an introvert growing up.

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

I'm really a shy person.

I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

In grammar school, I didn't talk. Everybody said I was the invisible one. I'm still very shy.

I was a studious child, heavily into academics. For the longest time, I wouldn't talk.

Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

I was kind of unfriendly and suspicious of everyone around me. I didn't talk until I was about 15. It's a kind of famous story at my house.

As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

Warily, she dares to allow me a smile. "It's okay. It's just...I'm not too good at talking to people." She looks away again as her shyness smothers her. "So, do you think it'd be all right if we don't talk?

I'm a super-introverted person.

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.

Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

The men I find myself attracted to are the ones who don't say anything and are quite shy.

Part of what was in the ether all around me growing up, until I was between 19 and 20, was a terrible, debilitating stutter. It was part of what made me very reclusive as a kid.

I've always been shy.

In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet.

I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.

It's no secret I'm a shy person.

I'm quiet, so people might think I'm a mute.

As a person, I am an introvert.

I'm very much an introvert.

I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.

In group situations, I tend to be the quiet one.

I don't like to speak. I like to keep myself to myself - quiet.