Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Allow me to take a moment to express my appreciation for Cletus Winston and his entrances.”

— Penny Reid

52. “We were both adulting like adult adults who behaved like adults.”

— Penny Reid

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “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

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

— Penny Reid

58. “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

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

— Penny Reid

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

65. “You are full of ambergris.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

69. “All my broken pieces are going to love you, just as I am now, without ever being fixed.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

73. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

84. “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

85. “I want enduring love. And, if people are honest with themselves, I think that’s what everyone wants.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

88. “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

89. “Like it or not, sometimes the only way to win is to surrender.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

93. “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

94. “Books are friends. You don’t just – just – just give away friends!”

— Penny Reid

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “Life is a struggle for relevancy.”

— Penny Reid

100. “I love you so much, and I miss you. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, Cletus Winston.” “I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, Jennifer Sylvester.”

— Penny Reid