I was taught when there's somethin' you can change around keep quiet, you got nothin' to complain about.
I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.
I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.
I have a couple of dogs and I live with my partner. We just like to sit and read and I'm generally quite quiet.