“For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.”
Dreamland (2000)
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“I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.”

“I get that Speedo on, it looks like a rubber band stretched over a head of cauliflower.”
They Call Me Tater Salad
“When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.”
Cuando rompo algunas de las cadenas que me encadenan, siento que me disminuyo.
Voces (1943)
Variant: When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.

Entertainment Weekly (30 July 1993)
2007, 2008

As quoted in "Constance Wu Doesn’t Want to Be Your “It” Girl" in Vulture https://www.vulture.com/2016/06/constance-wu-c-v-r.html