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I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

Jonathan Safran Foer
Shy, Want, Shame
Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.