"Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment"

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It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

— Tim O'Brien