Quotes on Bashful

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.