Quote by Jessica Martinez

“Don't be afraid to hear me. Don't shrink from anything I say. I am like one who died young: all my life might have…

— Charles Dickens

“The only thing I could think of was, if you move, you will crumble. If you breathe, you will collapse.”

— Hannah Kent

“I couldn’t be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.”

— Jo Walton

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“...I wondered if I'd ever stop feeling fragile...”

— Caitlin Kittredge

“But I can’t manage to grow up and change shape. I’m still tiny, and staying that way, perhaps because I know the secret that…

— Delphine de Vigan

“I felt disincarnate, cut loose from myself. How it would feel to be back in my body again I couldn’t imagine.”

— Donna Tartt

“I couldn’t reach her. I was never able to reach her. Maybe she moved at a pace too fast. Maybe she was too sad.…

— Lauren Slater

“I remembered to keep my body inclined low, to shrink myself smaller than he. He was sensitive about my greater height.”

— Nalo Hopkinson

“When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“I'm here to live, and I feel small.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“You're trapped both ways. You do as you are told and you do things that you think will make you big, but all the…

— Helen Dunmore