"the melancholic person can look relatively uninteresting on the surface, but usually underneath they have a rich world, intense feelings and often hidden interests and talents that you’d only find out after years of knowing them.

If you’re interacting with a melancholic, give them time: they don’t like to talk about their thoughts and feelings before they’ve thought through them fully, and if you ask them before they’re done, it’ll just throw off their train of thought and make them grumpy."