Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.”

— Penny Reid

102. “Pride is just another word for insecurity and fear – again, having no strong sense of self or worth. If pride is the driving force behind your decisions, then your life is going to suck.”

— Penny Reid

103. “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

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

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105. “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

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

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

— Penny Reid

110. “Another toast to Alex. May he live long and prosper, and have lots of prospering, long-living babies!” Elizabeth raised her glass; all the toasts she’d led so far had been Star Trek related, and this was the second live-long-and-prosper toast, which was how I knew it was time to cut her off.”

— Penny Reid

111. “I love you wildly, madly, completely, Fiona Archer,” he growled, then groaned on a broken breath. “I love you always.”

— Penny Reid

112. “Cletus sneered. “You are the opposite of boastful, and your humbleness verges on infuriating.” “Gee, thanks.” I rolled my eyes. “Look, all I’m saying is that if a person is great at something, she shouldn’t have to pretend she’s not, and she shouldn’t have to downplay her hard work. There’s nothing wrong with humility or modesty, Jenn. But – for heaven’s sake – take credit for being a badass.”

— Penny Reid

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

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114. “We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer.”

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115. “I want to ask if you’re okay, but I don’t want to keep asking if you’re okay. So I’m gonna limit myself to asking once every six hours.”

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116. “Bethany Winston once told me that time was like a closet. No matter what you do or how good your intentions are, you will always fill your time and closets with things that don’t matter. “That’s why funerals are so important,” she’d said. “They force you to clean out closets and reevaluate how you spend your time. Without death, we’d never have empty closets.”

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117. “Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It’s evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. There is nothing wrong with having a strong sense of self-preservation.”

— Penny Reid

118. “I’m madly in love with you, my Jennifer,” he said. I.”

— Penny Reid

119. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill.”

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120. “Because the world could be unpleasant and overwhelming. A demanding place full of uncertainties and expectations and fears. I was coming to realize retreating, hiding from the world on occasion, was not a bad thing to do, as long as I didn’t do it too often or because I was afraid of living my life.”

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121. “Because knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.”

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122. “Only you get to decide how you stand, what you stand for, and when you do it.”

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123. “I’d always been a big fan of kissing when done right.”

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124. “If she doesn’t learn to weld here, she’ll just learn it on the streets.”

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125. “I sputtered for a minute. Then I consulted the ceiling. It was silent on the matter and, strangely, didn’t seem to share my outrage.”

— Penny Reid

126. “This came from Sandra. “Roses are red, violets are blue, rhyming is hard. Wine.”

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127. “I’m sure you’re used to the deafening sound of underwear hitting the floor every time you enter the room.”

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128. “The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.” – Marcel Proust.”

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129. “I’m pointing out you’ve been missed. Being present is one hundred percent more meaningful than being there in spirit.”

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130. “You are loveliness personified; you are grace and fascination. I think of you and I stop breathing. I worry that any movement will steal the image of you from my mind’s eye. But the memory is a pale, hollow specter to luminous reality.”

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131. “I’m a firm believer that if a person needs a hug, you give that person a hug. So many times I’ve been in a situation where I needed a hug, and instead had to settle for a good cry on a pillow at the end of the day.”

— Penny Reid

132. “Forget men and romance. The answer to my aching loneliness would be all the cats.”

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133. “You’ll be tactile, and I’ll be clingy, and we’ll be very happy just as long as we sleep in a twin bed and call each other seventeen hundred times a day.”

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134. “My type has a romantic soul. He’ll make my brain and my heart fight over who gets him first. He does what’s right, even when it’s not easy – actually, especially when it’s not easy. He knows the value of discipline, education, honor, and restraint. And his strength of character is the only thing that outweighs the strength of his love for me.”

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135. “Little did he know, I possessed no feminine wiles. Only the willies and the hibby jibbies.”

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136. “Just because someone is an idiot doesn’t mean they’re a bad person. And just because someone is smart doesn’t mean they’re good.”

— Penny Reid

137. “Cry if you need to, but don’t ignore what the tears are about.”

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138. “Because you’re youthful and fun, and yet level-headed and practical. You are an optimist. If anything, you remind me that I’m still young, that my life isn’t over. And I trust you. You feel like a beginning to me.”

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139. “I liked this about Drew: always to the point when talking about business, but always philosophical when talking about life. Attending his birthday party had been a priority since I met him four years ago.”

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140. “There’s a reason we eat popcorn during a movie. If I want to zone out, be brainless and entertained, then I watch TV, go to a movie. If I want a good story, then I read a book.” “Ah.”

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141. “If I let another person’s opinion matter then I was giving him control over me; I alone had complete control over my self-image.”

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142. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Diary.”

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143. “Quinn until he messaged me his nightly text, which had turned somewhat math-mushy recently: If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you. He.”

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144. “We don’t believe in false pleasantries around these parts, nor do we kick a fella when he’s down. So I’ll just say, bless your heart, and leave it at that.”

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145. “I’d chosen my profession because it meant I could move anywhere; no matter the city, science and math teachers were needed.”

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146. “Cletus’s middle name wasn’t “Evasive”, but it should have been. Another.”

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147. “He laughed, definitely forced, and glanced around at his security team. The didn’t laugh, likely because they weren’t in on the joke, nor were they paid to play the role of sycophants to a psychopath.”

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148. “How could I have looked at her with anything but wonder and respect and desire?”

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149. “Sugar, I’d be honored to catch you anytime you’d like to fall.”

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150. “You’ll always have the advantage of me, Jenn. Because I’m lost without you.”

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