Relateable Quotes & Sayings

Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can't we eat-eat-eat, and then talk? — Sarah J. Maas

I don't really have one style; I just choose what I like best each time. — Go Ah-sung

The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all things arrive. Let's leave doubt for tomorrow," Komatsu said. "That is the point. — Haruki Murakami

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise. — Joan Robinson

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

The 60's are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great. — Abbie Hoffman

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

A song can be a song where somebody thinks you're crazy. A song that gets released has got to be something that everyone can relate to. Most of the songs that I keep are un-relateable for most people - some of the music I make only for myself and the homies. — Schoolboy Q

This wasn't good, but it was something. Cath could always change it later. That was the beauty in stacking up words
they got cheaper, the more you had of them. It would feel good to come back and cut this when she had worked her way to something better. — Rainbow Rowell

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery. — Richard Brookhiser

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

If I'd had to guess, before, what "being pissed" felt like, I would never have guessed this unusual result: your knees feel warm, and your anxiety alchemizes down into something syrupy, and pleasant, and malleable. Like all medicines, it tastes revolting - but it makes you better. It makes you better. — Caitlin Moran

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

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut. — Marianne Jean-Baptiste

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

What you have learned is that the capacity of the plant is equal to the capacity of its bottlenecks, says Jonah. — Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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

My head is too large, although I prefer to think it is large enough for my mind. — George R R Martin

Racism has always been a divisive force separating black men and white men, and sexism has been a force that unites the two groups. — Bell Hooks

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

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

You haven't been fired," Mary said with a sigh. "You always jump to the worst possible conclusion. Why on earth would you be getting fired?"
Don't say the pens, don't say the pens, don't say the pens . . .
"I've nicked loads of pens."
"I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. — Lindsey Kelk

They say that you need to ride the rails for a while to understand the traveling blues. They're wrong. To understand the traveling blues you need to be locked down somewhere. In a cell. Or in the army. Someplace where you're caged. Someplace where smokestack lightning looks like a faraway beacon of impossible freedom. — Lee Child

Working to my potential.' It's like every teacher I have has some sort of manual to use when talking to me. She finished with, 'You have so much going for you,' which was the dumbest thing anyone, even Laurie, has ever said to me. — Elizabeth Scott

I was drowning in broad daylight and no one could tell. — Sarah Dessen

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

And I ordered the cheesecake. — Jojo Moyes

He is a longing I will never cure. — Tarryn Fisher

As I move to the front office, I bring the warm copies to my face and breathe them in. This is a weird habit of mine - sniffing copies. I do the same thing when I get a new book. What can I say? I have a paper sniffing problem. Things could be worse. — Autumn Doughton

Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to. — Sara Sheridan

I'm safe inside this container called me. — Haruki Murakami

With my aunt, I definitely can relate to how she makes a movie because she does it with her own demeanor, which isn't this loud presence. — Gia Coppola

The girl in 8G has no faith in herself," Marla shouts, "and she's worried that as she grows older, she'll have fewer and fewer options. — Chuck Palahniuk