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Book cover for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (AmazonClassics Edition)
Over the wall, to my left, there appeared a face. An egg-shaped head, partially covered with suspiciously black hair, two immense mustaches, and a pair of watchful eyes. It was our mysterious neighbor, Mr. Porrott.
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Adam S. McHugh
“While extroverts commonly feel loneliness when others are absent, introverts can feel most lonely when others are present, because ours is the aching loneliness of not being known or understood.”
Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

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
“Introverts have a constant internal monologue rushing through our heads.”
Adam S. McHugh, Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture

Lettie B. Cowman
“September 25 Why must I go about mourning? (Psalm 42:9) Dear believer, can you answer the above question? Can you find any reason why you are so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why do you allow your mind to dwell on gloomy thoughts? Who told you that night will never end in day? Who told you that the winter of your discontent would continue from frost to frost and from snow, ice, and hail to even deeper snow and stronger storms of despair? Don’t you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you! Charles H. Spurgeon”
L.B.E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings

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

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