I would strongly suggest find a boyfriend, girlfriend, person of intermediate gender, and who is seriously more outgoing and interesting than you are and then you just stand next to them and you can actually carry on being shy and nobody notices.
Neil Gaiman on how to “not so shy”
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So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.
Sylvia Plath (via loveyourchaos)(Source: marquis-in-spades-at)