Relateable Quotes

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

~ Sara Shepard

I wasn't just crying about Will. I was crying about Seb and Shona and my job and my sister's aggression and my parent's refusal to be proud of me and Lauren's wedding and every last shit little thing that had happened to me from birth, from the big disasters like puberty, to the things that didn't even seem to matter at the time, like when I put milk in my tea last Thursday and then found out it had gone off.

~ Lindsey Kelk

Sobs force their way out of my throat. I feel like I’m trapped in a disaster movie where everything is shriveling into darkness and ash. Sunflowers are being uprooted. Puppies are being trampled. Whole cities are crumbling to dust.

~ Paula Stokes

I guess it’s also not a good thing when you start relating yourself to a late nineteenth century nut bag who shot himself, but hey, you’ve got to relate to something if you ever want to feel relevant.

~ Molli Fields

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

Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can't we eat-eat-eat, and then talk?

~ Sarah J. Maas

Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them.

~ Jenim Dibie

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Getting responses on Through the Milky Way that it is creating an emotional investment by some of my readers. A gentleman I have know for awhile took the book on a vacation to the beach. While reading it, his wife came up to him and asked him why he was crying. He told her the book was sad and something he could relate to. Had others with the same response.

~ J.d. Stark