24 Quotes by Sophia Dembling

Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.

Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.

Every introvert alive knows the exquisite pleasure of stepping from the clamor of a party into the bathroom and closing the door.

One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretations: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck-up. You’re judgemental. You have nothing to say.

Just because I’m quiet doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.

One of the risks of being quiet is that the other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgemental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story – not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with finding our own thoughts more interesting than a long story about someone’s husband’s niece’s gum surgery. Introverts.

The introvert’s dilemma is that we might not get a lot of invitations for the kind of socializing we like best – small, mellow gatherings. In other words, the kind of socializing other introverts like to do. Because, let’s face it: We’re introverts. We’re all at home waiting to be invited to do introvert things. Which means, of course, that none of us are getting the invitations we crave. It’s an introvert standoff.