“Amber was not shy. If she had been shy, not one of us would be at Perkins right now.”
“...of the few young men and boys at the fort, now that she was too old for racing and climbing trees with them, she felt both shy and critical...”
“He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to be able to do anything more than move a sofa into the next room on his own.”
“One must not be shy where language is concerned.”
“Portia remembered her interview in the small office upstairs...in which she had been so shy, so terrified about not being good enough, not getting this thing, this chance, which she had only just discovered she wanted very badly.”
“They might be kittens," she said hopefully."They're stalking us.""They might be shy.""I don't think it's kittens, Valkyrie.""Puppies, then?”