Smaller Quote by Donna Tartt

“I had this tendency to think things through a little too much, envisioning things in the future while I completely missed the present.”

— Catherine Clark

“Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?”

— Orson Scott Card

“Smaller World: I know he's not really gone, she said, but the world still feels smaller to me today.”

— Brian Andreas

“lived only for the present, because the present was full of surprises.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Maybe it doesn't matter that life never blossomed into something larger than itself.”

— Zadie Smith

“Just one small thing had changed, such a small thing really. What difference could it make, the era in which we are born?”

— Andrew Sean Greer

“...that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.”

— Scott Westerfeld

“How did my world get so small?”

— David Levithan

“The more unstable life is the less one likes the small details to alter.”

— Graham Greene

“Afterward he remembered only the feeling that he was about to leave somewhere small and rational - a place that made sense - for…

— Neil Gaiman

“The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency.”

— Adam Haslett

“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”

— Anonymous