Place a quote half over margin

Question

I would like to place quotes in my document like in the template below. Ideally it would be a new environment that could be used multiple times easily. The quote should be halfway over the margin, in a bigger bold font to highlight key facts from the text.

Any idea how I could achieve this?

Answer 1

You can use the wrapfigure environment (from wrapfig package). This environment creates a box making the main text wrap around it. You can specify the width of this box and its position (left, or right, as well as inside, or outside for double-sided documents). Moreover, this package natively include the specification of the overhanging width.

\begin{wrapfigure}{<position: l, r, i, or o>}[<overhang width>]{<total width of the wrapfigure>}
    <content of the wraping figure>
\end{wrapfigure}

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{lipsum}
    \usepackage{wrapfig}
    \usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
    \lipsum[1]
    \begin{wrapfigure}{r}[.1\textwidth]{.4\textwidth}%
            \textbf{\sffamily\Large\textcolor{blue!50!black}{``Good things might come to those who wait\dots''}}%
    \end{wrapfigure}
    \lipsum[2-3]
\end{document}

---

Original answer

This solution uses a parbox inside the wrapfigure, instead of the native overhang option of wrapfig. It is thus bulkier than the one suggested above in the edit.

This solution uses the wrapfigure environment (from wrapfig package). This package defines a floating box that the text wraps around. You can specify the width of this box and its position (left or right):

\begin{wrapfigure}{<position: R or L>}{<width of the wrapfigure>}
    <content of the wraping figure>
\end{wrapfigure}

We fill this box with our quote. In order to make the text run across the margin, we put this text inside another box, a parbox, having a wider width than the one defined by the wrapfigure environment:

\parbox{<width of the box>}{<content of the box>}

---

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{lipsum}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{wrapfig}
    \usepackage{xcolor}

\begin{document}
    \lipsum[1]
    \begin{wrapfigure}{R}{.2\textwidth}%
        \parbox{.4\textwidth}{%
            \textbf{\sffamily\Large\textcolor{blue!50!black}{``Good things might come to those who wait\dots''}}%
        }%
    \end{wrapfigure}
    \lipsum[2-3]
\end{document}

---

MWE with explicit boxes:

\documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{lipsum}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{wrapfig}
    \usepackage{showframe}

\begin{document}
    \lipsum[1]
    \begin{wrapfigure}{R}{.2\textwidth}%
        \fbox{\parbox{.3\textwidth}{\textbf{\Large Good things might come to those who wait\dots}}}%
    \end{wrapfigure}
    \lipsum[2-3]
\end{document}