Relatable Quotes Quotes

“Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.”
― Jasmine Mas, Psycho Devils

“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“It was a Wednesday, I think. Yes, a Wednesday, that miserable day sandwiched between the dreadful Monday and Tuesday and the 'all right' Thursday and Friday, which ultimately gave way to what I hoped woud be a glorious weekend.”
― Gauri Jhangiani, The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary People

“And choosing friends with the right amount of depression, not to stand out too much. Sometimes it is very hard to bear very happy people around you because they remind you of how unhappy you are.”
― Rose S. White, You - The World of Thoughts Matters

“Every time I blink, all I can see are my flaws. My body in a fun-house mirror. Hips too wide. Thighs too big. And a head too small for the rest of me.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“No matter how much I tell myself that the fat and the stretch marks don't matter, they do. Even if Bo, for whatever reason, doesn't care, I do.

Then there are days when I really give zero flying fucks, and I am totally satisfied with this body of mine. How can I be both of those people at once?”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“I've always been uncomfortable with compliments, though I have a pathological need for them.”
― Emiko Jean, Tokyo Ever After

“By my side. Not beneath or above. Now that truly is the way it was meant to be.”
― Sadie Kincaid, Dante

“A face as stiff as a boulder, stiff with boredom—
that’s the face of an adult.
Adults don’t think about the ocean
even when they watch it.
Their minds are full of other things.
It’s very depressing to think
that someday I, too, will be an adult”
― Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me

“A calmness fell over me during chaos. It was like my dat-to-day life was so full of anxious thoughts that in genuine emergencies my brain was used to the adrenaline. Daily anxieties vanished when the goal became simple: don't die.”
― Alexandra Larson, Ascend from the Shadows

“If someone asked me what one word I'd use to describe my life...without a doubt, it'd be 'complicated.”
― Arianna Fox, Sabre Black

“Better to be delusional about love than face the reality that I’m far, far from it”
― Shaina Veronica, All About You

“the fact that I had to work with someone scared me. what if they hate me and tell their friends that everyday. what if i'm the girl that they dread having to talk to everyday.”
― Nadia Oshafi, After the Bell Rings

“She was the type of flower that could still grow after a forest fire.”
― .

“I’m not the leading role.
I’m just a side character in the longest running
tale that nobody really wants to talk about.”
― Kristy Cunning, Gypsy Origins

“men never have to think about flowers.”
― Hannah Mukhtar, Meadow of Whispers: A Floral Poetry Collection

“I think and I think...thinking so much that it hurts again”
― Hannah Mukhtar, Meadow of Whispers: A Floral Poetry Collection

“Don’t call me that, please,” I say, allowing myself a rare moment of honesty. “I don’t like it.”
I’m not looking at Will, but I can still feel his gaze. And then I can feel his fingers lightly clasp my elbow as if he were afraid I was about to drift off, and he needed to keep me there beside him. “Annie. I’m sorry.” His voice is low and genuine. “I didn’t mean it in a negative way.”
I force a smile and look up at him. “I know. No one ever does when they call me by those names. And I’ve heard them all: Saint Annie, Angel Annie, Goody-goody Annie. It’s never meant in a bad way, but that doesn’t mean I don’t feel a negative connotation when they say it.” I shrug slightly like it’s no big deal, even though…I guess it is kind of a big deal to me. “It feels like they’re saying I don’t have as much substance as everyone else.
That because I’m sweet, I don’t have as much to offer. I constantly feel underestimated, and I’m so tired of it.”
― Sarah Adams

“he was interested to see the results of his personality assessments. There were two main poles, for a multi-decade mission like this, and they pulled in opposite directions. One related to how well a crewmember could cope working in isolation for long periods of time, and how they might tolerate being severed from the great mass of humanity and the course of human history. He aced that one. The other one related to working in close confinement alongside other human beings you simply could not escape from, and he was dismayed to see how close he had come to rejection on that ground alone”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin

“Cry a river, build a fucking bridge and jump off of it”
― Veronica Kate

“Again, my heart is a scale out of balance, with my end taking all the weight.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Flow

“Rule 1: Head held high.
Rule 2: Don't turn around.
Rule 3: If you can't out run them, out smart them.”
― Sharon E. Heisel, Eyes of a Stranger

“I do not hate anyone in the world, but there are certain men whom I need to see only from a distance.”
― Ugo Foscolo, Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

“X secretly worries that the obvious selfishness of his inner feelings during the time of family crisis when his wife and children so clearly deserve his compassion and support might constitute evidence of some horrific defect in his human makeup, some kind of hideous central ice where his heart’s nodes of empathy and basic other-directedness ought to be, and is increasingly tormented by shame and self-doubt, and then is doubly ashamed and worried about the fact that the shame and self-doubt are themselves self-involving and thus further compromise his ability to be truly concerned and supportive toward his wife and kids.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“My mom was my first mean girl.”
― Melanie Shankle, Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma

“He preferred being compassionate to being correct.”
― Divya K.R., THE FLAT MATES/FOES

“Even if you try to resist me with the force of a billion ohms, I’ll find a way to get our wires crossed.” I whisper.
Krish flinches like I’ve socked him in the jaw.
"That’s what you said.” I swallow back the caustic laugh. “When I asked you, who speaks like that, you said, it’s the professional hazard of dating an engineer.”
― Divya K.R., THE FLAT MATES/FOES

“Soy demasiado impulsivo en la ejecución y demasiado impaciente con los obstáculos.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Darkness is not the end, but the space where light learns to shine the brightest.”
― Supriya Ojha, Where Light is lost: The Hollow Silence

“You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to bust out of orbit, to spin out to a place where no one can touch you. To lose yourself--to get lost.

Or maybe you wouldn't be surprised. Maybe some of you already know.

To those people, I can only say: I'm sorry.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall