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Book cover for The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
Dorothy had only one other dress, but that happened to be clean and was hanging on a peg beside her bed. It was gingham, with checks of white and blue; and although the blue was somewhat faded with many washings, it was still a pretty ...more
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Adam S. McHugh
“Introverts have a constant internal monologue rushing through our heads.”
Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

Frances Hodgson Burnett
“So her heart was more drawn to him than before. When she was sent out at night she used sometimes to feel quite glad, because there was always a chance that the curtains of the house next door might not yet be closed and she could look into the warm room and see her adopted friend. When no one was about she used sometimes to stop, and, holding to the iron railings, wish him good night as if he could hear her.

“Perhaps you can feel if you can’t hear,” was her fancy. “Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don’t know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again. I am so sorry for you,” she would whisper in an intense little voice. “I wish you had a ‘Little Missus’ who could pet you as I used to pet papa when he had a headache. I should like to be your ‘Little Missus’ myself, poor dear! Good night ­good night. God bless you!”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett
“I am growing quite fond of him,” she said to Ermengarde; “I should not like him to be disturbed. I have adopted him for a friend. You can do that with people you never speak to at all. You can just watch them, and think about them and be sorry for them, until they seem almost like relations. I’m quite anxious sometimes when I see the doctor call twice a day.”
Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

Adam S. McHugh
“Growing up constantly being compared to extroverts can be very damaging. Most introverted children grow up receiving the message overtly and covertly that something is wrong with them. They feel blamed—why can’t they answer the question faster? And defamed—maybe they aren’t that smart. Forty-nine of the fifty introverts I interviewed felt they had been reproached and maligned for being the way they were.”[1]”
Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

Adam S. McHugh
“Introverts often prefer writing to speaking, because writing uses a different neurological pathway in the brain than speaking does.”
Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

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