Relatable Quotes

“I always have a problem liking things I'm told I should like.”
― Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

“I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After

“I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.”
― Tiffany Schmidt, Bright Before Sunrise

“If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.”
― Victor LaValle, The Devil in Silver

“If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes.”
― Sarah MacLean, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake

“Okay. I've got one. Do you think Pluto should still be considered an actual planet in its own right?"

"Much better. And yes, I do. I had to memorize the planets when I was in third grade, and it was one of them, and I don't like having to relearn things.”
― Claire LaZebnik, The Trouble with Flirting

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed by the hand of the poet himself: 'For her whose wishes must be obeyed' ... 'The happier Helen of our day' ... disgraceful to say, she had never read them.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“I consider that a man’s brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Whether they've made the land, or the land's made them, it's hard to say, if you take my meaning.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I am going to shrink and shrink until I am a dry fall leaf, complete with a translucent spine and brittle veins, blowing away in a stiff wind, up, up, up into a crisp blue sky.”
― Julie Gregory, Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood

“I'm tired of hurting from the people who leave me. I'm tired of getting comfortable with others. I tell you everything and you leave. It's like you're take what is good in me and all that is left in me is an empty shitty feeling.”
― Shailee J-N

“Welcome to life in a small town,' Jack said dryly. 'Where everybody makes it their business to put their noses in yours.”
― Cinda Williams Chima, The Wizard Heir

“Shrouded in his red cassock, he padded off to the bathroom lost in the silent ecstasy or wearing new socks.”
― Julia Stuart, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise

“As much as we strive towards the light, we still want to be embraced by the shadow.”
― Zoran Drvenkar

“I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant he'd soon be telling me our life was declined. Everything, everyone had reached their limits with me.”
― Joshua Mohr, Termite Parade

“But that's how I felt in high school, sure that my people were from elsewhere, and going elsewhere, and that they would recognise me when they saw me. They would like me enough that it wouldn't matter if I liked myself. They would see the good in me so that I could, too.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.”
― I.E. Castellano, Bow of the Moon

“Cooking's a bother.”
― Lois Lowry, Messenger

“Life. In all it's mundane majesty.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Enshrined

“I have never had any difficulty falling asleep. No matter what problems I have. However terrible things are, I can sleep. It's like killing yourself and taking the easy way out. It's waking up that I dread. Every morning, I go through the five stages of death. I wake up in denial that I have to go to work. Then I get angry. Then I bargain with God, or myself, and try to call in sick. Then I feel guilty and go into remission, until finally I accept that the day will suck and I get up.”
― Ernesto Quiñonez, Chango's Fire

“Jane had tried that with Mothers Group and failed. She just couldn't relate to those bright, chatty women and their bubbly conversations about husbands who weren't "stepping up" and renovations that weren't finished before the baby was born and that hilarious time they were so busy and tired they left the house without putting on any makeup! (Jane, who was wearing no makeup at the time, and never wore makeup, had kept her face blank and benign, while she inwardly shouted: What the fuck?)”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Sometimes you go do the opposite things anyway because in actuality... The whole time you've been wanting to hear the right thing from a person that will stop you.”
― Shailee J-N

“A few weeks. Sure. Like a few weeks will fix the hole in my head.”
― Rainbow Rowell

“Opinions aren't facts. Stop worrying about what people think of you.”
― Anonymous

“My life had become one long cliffhanger”
― Celine Kiernan, Into the Grey

“I hate crew cuts.”
― Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, Relic