Shrinking Quotes

“Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

“I don't want to put anyone in a bad spot," I say.
"Alice. You're in a bad spot," Cillian says.
"It's fine," I say. "This really isn't that big of a deal. all things considered."
"Well, then stop considering 'all things' for a minute," Priya says. "This doesn't have to be the greatest tragedy that ever befall anyone. It doesn't even have to be the worst thing that's ever happened to you."
"Exactly," Bianca agrees. "You're hurting right now, that's what matters.”
― Emily Henry, Great Big Beautiful Life

“Alas, I drinketh and my brain doth shrinketh.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“How will you ever get stretched if you’re only searching out what’s in your reach? For if you’re not getting stretched, you’re being shrunk.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The past year had shrunk the world. In the hot wash and to be honest, washing it had been a bad idea all along. It should have gotten trashed, instead, given the dirt it had accumulated.”
― Sima B. Moussavian, As the moon began to rust

“Stop shrinking yourself down for people who can’t even fit themselves into the boxes they’re trying to force you into.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“The most difficult thing to be in a world so loud is a person so quiet.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“Sometimes the mask isn’t to hide pain—it’s to quiet the joy, the love, the truth too loud for the room.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“The quiet and reserved are not very quiet and reserved when they are around those who are quiet and reserved.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions