Relateable Quotes

“Various large trees— willowy peppers and especially the pines—seem to be reaching down to hold your hand.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

“I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me. My closest is a good thing, a quiet place that helps me hold these thoughts inside my head where no one can hear them.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“There are so many wild animals on the property. It makes the ashram Noah’s Arkish. All the wildlife is intact; watching the animals adds to the safety and rescue aspects of the ashram. The ashram’s pristine environment along with
its celibacy policy and abundance of food is like a Garden of Eden. Like starting over! You forget about sex and spending your whole paycheck on organic apples.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God

“Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven.”
― Penelope Douglas, Kill Switch

“If I’m going to do the time. Might as well do the crime?” 
She scowled. “Worst pickup line in evolutionary history. Truly proof you never evolved past neanderthal.”
― J. Rose Black, Chasing Headlines

“I need to make money. I need to write today. I need to clean the bathroom. I need to eat something. I need to quit sugar. I need to cut my hair. I need to call Verizon. I need to savor the moment. I need to find the library card. I need to learn to meditate. I need to try harder. I need to get that stain out. I need to find better health insurance. I need to discover my signature scent. I need to strengthen and tone. I need to be present in the moment. I need to learn French. I need to be easier on myself. I need to buy organizational storage units. I need to call back. I need to develop a relationship with a God of my understanding.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“She smiled.
Sam smiled back.
She died.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Emergency Contact

“We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people”
― Sara Shepard, Ruthless

“I told myself that I would exist wholly in this moment, and this one, and this one, and thus over time I would simply change. I would be grounded. I would be better. I would hate myself less, or at least less often.”
― Olivie Blake, Gifted & Talented

“But he had to try, really try, to make sure that he did not stop dreaming in his native tongue.”
― R F Kuang, Babel

“I'm tired of living in hatred and resentment. I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself. No, I'm not blaming you for this. Come to think of it, you may be such a victim. You probably don't know how to love yourself.
Am I wrong about that?”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“But things. never go the way you want them to, and this was no excepion.
The world seemed to have a better sense of how your wanted things not to go.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 #1-2

“You can love whoever. Marry anybody. You can make me live wherever. Go to whatever school you decide. I don't care, ok? I just don't care. All I want is to be left alone.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“But school hadn't been a safe haven of mine for a long time.”
― Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why

“I don't need bright lights when I can share the darkness with you and feel safe.”
― Felice Stevens, The Player

“Our minds want dangerous things to be ugly, yet Tress found those rolling waves inviting.”
― Brandon Sanderson

“...the fear of being alone crashing into the fear of being in a
relationship, creating a tsunami of panic.”
― Ben Stuart, Single, Dating, Engaged, Married Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video: Navigating Life + Love in the Modern Age

“I didn't have that many boxes. Most of them were books. I have always been one of those who rhapsodized about the book as a physical object, but having to pack and carry the boxes was enough to make me want to throw over physical books altogether and just live on an e-reader.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“Raucous laughter pelted her ears through its wide gaps. Lux curled her lip. It was too early in the morning for this.”
― Gloria Bottelman, Untethered

“Okay, I'm a stack of hypersensitivities in a trench coat”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“The secret-- his actual infidelity-- was bad enough. But in this exact moment, the raw, ugly questions about *her*, and the extent of their relationship, ...Just last night, we'd made love. How dare he bring that woman's ghost to our bed, the sacred place where we'd been trying to conceive a child.
My shoulders shook, my hands trembled. "All these nights trying for a baby. Were you thinking of her, instead of--”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“The phrase meant something like "nature's grace." It referred to the inevitability of death, of nature allowing you a break from the struggle of life.”
― Reece Caven, The Liar & the Knight: An Epic Fantasy Adventure

“God's hand on his bare skin was the one certainty that rose up through the abstractness of truth and thought, everything, and gave Jude a sense of belonging on Earth.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“She was empty. 'I am an object in the room,' she had told herself. 'That is all that I am.' This belief spared her the agony of her own intelligence”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“My body has been turning against me for a while now, acting like it's no longer happy to be here.”
― Samantha Downing

“Sometimes, to become somebody else, you have to become nobody first.
You have to let go of your mother and father, the crooked starving house you grew up in that wanted to devour you and digest you whole. Forget, if you can, all the promises you've made and the lies that you've told”
― Kai Cheng Tom

“He doesn't normally wish he had friends, but when this thought comes to him, he does. It might be helpful to know a man of his age and experience who could tell him whether his troubles were benign or terminal.”
― Mason Coile, William

“No one ever mentioned that dog ownership came with a complete lack of toilet privacy.”
― Cassandra Cleva, Hunted by the Mothman: A Short Erotic Horror Story

“I’ve never fucked a woman before, but I can’t claim to be any better than a man when I see an attractive woman.”
― Cassandra Cleva, Hunted by the Mothman: A Short Erotic Horror Story