Shut In Quotes

“Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.”
― Michael Bedard, Redwork

“Sometimes I just feel so shut in, with all those people and they've all got something while I've got nothing.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“It was my first time going out in two hundred years. I walked along slowly.”
― Ameko Kaeruda, Dragon Daddy Diaries: A Girl Grows to Greatness Volume 1

“Z witnessed something truly beautiful. She learned there’s a special love between a shut-in mother and her babies. They spoke a language without words.”
― Mert, Threes: 3