Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Go then.” I shrugged. “And if you lock yourself out of your car don’t call me. I won’t be answering my cell phone.”

— Penny Reid

52. “If I ever cheated on my wife, I think she’d have my balls cut off. If you don’t want to castrate this guy after what he’s done, then he’s not the one for you.”

— Penny Reid

53. “I treasure my sleep over the wellbeing or interests of my loved ones.”

— Penny Reid

54. “There is a stillness that accompanies the death of a loved one. Everything becomes quieter, but it’s not just sound that is dimmed. Movement, action, perception, emotion – everything is distant and removed.”

— Penny Reid

55. “My momma once told me, you don’t need to be pushed in order to fall. I don’t think you’ll need to do much pushing, Jessica.”

— Penny Reid

56. “Everything about her was unexpected and unique. She was my bright light of eccentricity in a very predictable and ordinary world. She made everything new and interesting or funny.”

— Penny Reid

57. “You want to know what you are to me? Fine. You’re my beginning, middle, and end.”

— Penny Reid

58. “I gagged instinctively, covering my mouth with my hand, but I also laughed. Through my fingers I mumbled, “It’s like there’s a party going on in my mouth, and everyone is throwing up.”

— Penny Reid

59. “My name is Alex, and I’ll be serving you tonight.”

— Penny Reid

60. “You’re disgusting and that’s completely misogynistic. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you’re using her? What if she’s just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he’s sewing oats. When a girl does it, she’s a hook-up girl.”

— Penny Reid

61. “Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn’t enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow – for the better – working to deserve each other, was the key. I loved him and I always would. But that was the easy part. Working to deserve him and demanding that he work to deserve me, everyday – that was hard. But he was worth it. And I was worth it.”

— Penny Reid

62. “You are full of ambergris.”

— Penny Reid

63. “Love, I decided, is being a sidekick.”

— Penny Reid

64. “My hair is ridiculous. It’s been misbehaving since birth.”

— Penny Reid

65. “Old things have soul. Then to me she’d add on a whisper, ‘And young things have spirit.”

— Penny Reid

66. “Cletus Byron! Stop stuffing Astrophysics Monthly down your pants!’” Cletus.”

— Penny Reid

67. “I didn’t drink they Kool-Aid of patriotism, nor did I drink the moonshine of anarchy.”

— Penny Reid

68. “Everything is temporary, Duane. This,” he gestured to our surroundings, “this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts.”

— Penny Reid

69. “Love brings to light a lover’s noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.”

— Penny Reid

70. “I recognized him instantly even though the last time I saw him in person he was seventeen, naked, and asleep. I was sixteen, haphazardly dressed, and sneaking out his window.”

— Penny Reid

71. “But his laugh was a radioactive seduction and had a half-life of infinity.”

— Penny Reid

72. “Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water.”

— Penny Reid

73. “What are you!? A Disney princess?” Ashley’s annoyance powered semi-shout surprised the room. She dropped her knitting to her lap and glared at me, apparently sincerely perturbed by Janie’s revelation. “Get over yourself! We all have to fall in love more than once – even if it’s with the same person.”

— Penny Reid

74. “Alex the waiter was on my Spank Naughty list in third place, right after Henry Calvill the actor, then Henry Calvill as Superman. He was proof that God existed, and that God loved straight women.”

— Penny Reid

75. “It is the burden of the optimist to live a life not knowing why others can’t see the beautiful light within themselves.”

— Penny Reid

76. “These brothers who I thought I knew were turning out to be a mystery wrapped in an enigma, slathered in conundrum flavored cream cheese.”

— Penny Reid

77. “We can’t change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future.”

— Penny Reid

78. “Not sure if it was compliment, or an insult, or a complisult.”

— Penny Reid

79. “We talked. We talked, and we laughed, and we had an amazing time. Conversation flowed like a beautiful waterfall, and my senses were saturated. Food came and went. Wine was poured and appeared out of nowhere. Time passed and I had no recollection or consciousness of anyone but Quinn being in that restaurant.”

— Penny Reid

80. “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.” – Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet.”

— Penny Reid

81. “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” – Dalai Lama XIV.”

— Penny Reid

82. “He wanted me. I wanted him. This was a frightening and thrilling prospect, because when I pushed him, he pushed back.”

— Penny Reid

83. “Without action, even good intentions are meaningless.”

— Penny Reid

84. “Oh, Abram. Please don’t waste energy on this. Haters gonna hate, idiots gonna procreate.”

— Penny Reid

85. “Kummerspeck, of course, being the German word for emotional weight gain; literally translated, it means grief bacon.”

— Penny Reid

86. “The beauty of human relationships is sharing burdens?” “More or less. But burdens don’t grow lighter if both people are contributing equally. Life isn’t a fifty-fifty split, that’s just being lazy. Burdens are weightless, worlds change, and love endures when both people are contributing their maximum.”

— Penny Reid

87. “I swear whatever pheromones Quinn Sullivan secreted were the equivalent of Janie-cat-nip.”

— Penny Reid

88. “I can’t wait to taste you.” He whispered against my stomach, allowing his hot breath to spill over my chest, sharpen the goose bumps pricking my skin. “I’ve always wondered what you taste like.” I could tell he was speaking mostly to himself, but his words drove me a lot insane.”

— Penny Reid

89. “Life is a struggle for relevancy.”

— Penny Reid

90. “If you don’t fight for what you love, then you have nothing worth losing.”

— Penny Reid

91. “I will die happy here, today, in this spot,” she sighed. “In your puddle of lust.” “Leave my puddle of lust alone. Get your own puddle.”

— Penny Reid

92. “Hurting is just as much a part of life as joy, maybe even more important. Falling down teaches you how to stand up.”

— Penny Reid

93. “Attending to injustice, no matter how small, is always a worthy cause.”

— Penny Reid

94. “He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.”

— Penny Reid

95. “Holy hotness, Batman.”

— Penny Reid

96. “And God bless the Internet, because if there’s anything it has in infinite supply – other than ill-formed opinions – it’s cat pictures.”

— Penny Reid

97. “Laws varied depending on the place and time, required documentation, due process, and interpretation. You couldn’t count on the law to serve justice.”

— Penny Reid

98. “Unrequited love was typically my favorite kind of love. The non-reciprocal nature of it appealed to me in much the same way boy bands appealed to me; it was theoretical love because it was untested – hopeless in its one-sidedness, yet tragically inspiring.”

— Penny Reid

99. “The truth is, as an adult, I am always waiting to be left behind. I’m always ready to be discarded and, therefore, I spend a significant amount of time preparing for this eventuality. I lower my expectations, I don’t seek out meaningful relationships, and I don’t engage in any sort of real intimacy, physical or otherwise. Engage is the key word here.”

— Penny Reid

100. “I was starting to understand why the blood of a thousand virgins had been sacrificed at his altar of sexual prowess.”

— Penny Reid