22 Relatable Quotes from Our Favorite Books
22 Relatable Quotes from Our Favorite Books – If you’ve ever come across a line in a book that told you “Literally Me,” join the club. We read books daily, but every so often, we come across a sentence or an excerpt that resonates so perfectly with us that we have to stop and really appreciate it. Whether it’s a relatable quote describing the world, a quintessential experience, or something personal, words leave an impact and remind us that writers go through the same feelings as we do. We’ve rounded up some of the best related quotes from literature that really capture our thoughts on identity, travel, family, and everything in between.
1.“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
2.“Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.” — Stephen King,
3.“And even though I laughed with them, it felt like I was watching the whole thing from somewhere else, like I was watching a movie about my life instead of living it.” ― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down
4.“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.” — Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
5.“Being an introvert doesn’t mean you’re shy. It means you enjoy being alone. Not just enjoy it – you need it. If you’re a true introvert, other people are basically energy vampires.
6.“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
7.“We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” — J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
8.“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.” — Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
9.“I don’t get why we call it a crush when it feels more like a curse.”— Julie Murphy, Dumplin’
10.“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
11.“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
12.“People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.” — Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
13.“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.” — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
14.“Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.” — Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
15.“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
16.“We accept the love we think we deserve.” — Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
17.“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
18.“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up.” — Veronica Roth, Divergent
19.“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
20.“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
21.“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
22.“You wanna fly, you got to give up the s**t that weighs you down.” ― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
