| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1e7d0ce | "I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done." | sociability social-anxiety | Jane Austen | |
| 87844fc | She was herself unconscious of that faint hint of offishness which hung about her and repelled advances, an arrogance that stirred in people a peculiar irritation. They noticed her, admired her clothes, but that was all, for the self-sufficient uninterested manner adopted instinctively as a protective measure for her acute sensitiveness, in her child days, still clung to her. | personality irritation sociability standoffishness self-sufficiency sensitivity | Nella Larsen |