He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully s…

Neil Gaiman
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He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. ✨ Neil Gaiman (2010). Stardust, p.31, Hachette UK
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