Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “No. That’s not what I want. You would have to go all in. We would go out to dinner, see movies, call each other, text. I’d work on your car – you know, the Mustang you left at my house earlier this week – install gadgets you don’t need ’cause you’re my girl. You might come to the Winston place and hang out with us boys. This would be both of us, all in for all twelve months – or less if we find we don’t suit.”

— Penny Reid

452. “Every stray deserves a chance at love, a home and a warm bed to sleep at night.”

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453. “You infect me, body and soul, with primitive thoughts of claiming and conquering. I do not know who I am when I touch you. I am no longer civilized, I am blood and heat and lust. I barely recognize myself.”

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454. “My mother was awesome. I loved her dearly and respected her even more. She and my dad had been tough on us as kids, the good kind of tough, the kind of tough that came with high expectations. Her favorite thing to say to us had always been, “Why are you so anxious to build yourself a ceiling? Why don’t you build a rocket instead?”

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455. “Duane’s mouth parted slightly and his eyebrows lifted high on his forehead. All hints of his earlier frown had vanished. Unless I was misreading his expression, he appeared to be a little lost, like maybe I’d stolen his breath and his wallet and his passport and his memories. Really, he looked stunned.”

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456. “In all honesty, I’d enjoyed the horse ride more than the man ride. At least the horse had been a stallion.”

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457. “Musicians are like lightbulbs, they burn hot and bright, but can’t be screwed more than once.”

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458. “You have stolen my heart and soul, if such things exist for a creature like me. I’m yours. Forever. If you’ll have me.”

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459. “Nothing was worse than a handsome guy who became an ignorant toad when he spoke.”

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460. “If you can’t hold your temper in society, then you don’t get to be part of society. Those are the rules.”

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461. “Sometimes, when I look at you, all my thoughts, all the plates I’m spinning in my head, they stop. And for a few seconds, it’s peaceful. You make me witless.”

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462. “You have a big heart. I would never trade your mammoth, irrationally generous heart for a smaller, more frugal one. I love every square kilometer of it.” A laugh tumbled from my lips and I lowered to the couch. “Really? It’s that big?” “It should have its own zip code. And it’s my third favorite thing about you.”

— Penny Reid

463. “History – the good kind of history – is seldom made by those who keep their head down.”

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464. “I guess, what’s wrong with the world never changes. Selfishness, greed, brutality. There will always be stupid, brutal people. There will always be intelligent, brutal people too. And that’s depressing.”

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465. “As time together grows scarce, it also becomes more precious.”

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466. “Humans are at their worst when they’re in the role of spectator. We eagerly watch as others receive comeuppance, yet we reject simple truths about ourselves even when the truths are gently administered.”

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467. “Past, present, future. I’ll never regret any Moment loving you.”

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468. “I had to accept that there was something wrong with me and stop making excuses for my behavior. A mental disorder is not like a physical one. My mind and I are not one and the same. I don’t trust myself all the time, but I am working on that. I’m working to rewire my brain.”

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469. “Which, if you ask me, just means it’s not where you belong. If you can be replaced so easily in a person’s life, then you probably don’t need to be a part of that person’s life.”

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470. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates.”

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471. “How you treat others defines you more than how others treat you.”

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472. “I’d tried dating. In fact, I’d even tried marriage. Everything about it was a horrific disaster, on so many levels.”

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473. “Well, don’t un-weird yourself on my account. I like you weird.”

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474. “You’re appalling.” His eyes twinkled with mischief, but his face and tone remained serious. “It’s pronounced appealing, Darling.”

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475. “After all, the brightest object in earth’s night sky was usually our little moon. Whereas the majority of the dim, twinkling lights in the distance, the ones we barely noticed, were not only stars but something altogether more awe-inspiring once you took the time to investigate. To know.”

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476. “Of the emotions, mourning in particular feels like something that should be sacred and intensely private. The.”

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477. “Do you really have no idea how I feel about you? Do you not understand that, even as I sit here, worried about you, livid and plotting revenge on your behalf, I’m trying to figure out how to prove you can trust me? Always. I love you with every part of myself, you’ve invaded every corner, every secret place, and I only want – I’ve only ever wanted – your happiness. If you want me to stay, then with you is always where I want to be.”

— Penny Reid

478. “Seeds sown in dread never bloom because fear makes for shallow soil.”

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479. “I’ll tell you what I told Shelly when she was going through a hard time in middle school.” He returned my smile with a small one of his own. “Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he’ll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like.”

— Penny Reid

480. “One thing I don’t know is why you’re drinking coffee from a Hello Kitty thermos.” Cletus sounded both interested and irked. “And why haven’t you bought one for me? You know I like that Hello Kitty.”

— Penny Reid

481. “You measure success of a life in the difference made, not in the amount of money or fame earned, and not in terms of the freedom you’re afforded.”

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482. “Let her always need my love, as she does now, and let me always be capable of offering it this freely, unreservedly, and unconditionally.”

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483. “There is just something about women who spend hours and hours knitting a sweater with mind-blowingly expensive yarn, when they could just buy a sweater for a fraction of the price – not to mention the time saved doing so – that lends itself to acceptance and patience for the human condition.”

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484. “I couldn’t help think I’d just narrowly escaped a brand new broken heart. I’d been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery.”

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485. “Talking to her was like arguing with a flat-earther. Ignorance plus arrogance is why we can’t have nice things!”

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486. “If one persists in asking oneself, “Why does it matter?” the answer always eventually becomes, “It doesn’t.”

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487. “I look at her, I see her heart and her warts in equal measure.”

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488. “I might change, but that doesn’t mean I can change people’s minds about who I am, because the idea persists, even if it’s faulty.”

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489. “I supposed Raquel was an idea. A memory I’d made too much out of, remembered too often, relived until the edges had grown worn and soft and frayed. Who’s to say that night ever really happened? Maybe it didn’t. Maybe it had been a figment of my imagination.”

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490. “There is boring. There is sensational. There is mediocre. There is lazy. There is good. There is evil. People do implausible things all the time, and they run the gamut of moderately weird to truly extraordinary. But there is no normal. The world is an unbelievable place full of unbelievable people doing unbelievable things.”

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491. “I’d come to view him as another example – in a long line of examples – of why men were as trustworthy and reliable as tampons made of sand.”

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492. “I wondered what it would be like to be perfect, or at least seen that way by the outside world. It seemed to me that perfect – the word and all its connotations – might feel a bit like a cage, a defined floor and ceiling. “Tell.”

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493. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” – Khalil Gibran.”

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494. “I didn’t care about that stupid job. I didn’t care about anything. Nothing mattered. Not even climate change. And humanity was all destined to die from climate change. That’s how upset I was.”

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495. “Please let me hold the tools for you while you work on your refrigerator.”

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496. “Honestly, yes.” I nodded heartily. “I like Dr. West. It’s like having a – a – a relationship coach. Or a good mechanic on staff, keeping our engines cool and well oiled.” Shelly’s.”

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497. “You’ve always been a superhero.” Byron slid his nose against mine, brushing our lips together and whispering, “You’re a teacher, aren’t you? The only difference is that teachers don’t wear capes.”

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498. “My momma once told me no one turns away a lady bearing pie. If you want to get your foot in the door, bring pie and hold it in front of you. She called this the pie effect.”

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499. “Okay, that makes sense. But just so you know, I have no warts. I am an ethereal goddess of perfection.”

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500. “Nightmares don’t care about reason.”

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