Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

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

— Penny Reid

103. “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

104. “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

105. “I promise, if you’ll have me, I’ll sing with you whenever or wherever you want. But only with you, Scarlet. I only want to sing with you.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

107. “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

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

— Penny Reid

109. “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

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

— Penny Reid

111. “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

112. “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

113. “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.”

— Penny Reid

114. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

116. “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

117. “Life is a struggle for relevancy.”

— Penny Reid

118. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

121. “Yeah. I can see that. I feel like sidekicks aren’t as well developed as the main character in a story, but they’re essential in defining that main character. And the protagonist needs the sidekick more than the sidekick needs the protagonist.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

125. “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

126. “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

127. “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

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

— Penny Reid

129. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

133. “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.”

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134. “Yeah, I’m still here.” I heard him sigh. “These aren’t the same plans you made yesterday with your ex, are they?” Inwardly, I cringed. Then, outwardly, I also cringed. “Yes.” His response was silence. “Quinn?” “I’ll come too.” It didn’t sound at all like a request. “Uh, what?”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

136. “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.”

— Penny Reid

137. “I love getting lost in someone else’s story, thinking about life from their perspective, living their experiences.” “Why don’t you live your own experiences?” I wrinkled my nose at this question. “Why would I do that when I can be a hundred different people a year? Live a hundred different lives.”

— Penny Reid

138. “And by Bunsen burner I meant, literally, my Bunsen burner. Not the figurative Bunsen burner in my pants.”

— Penny Reid

139. “I like things defined, I dislike surprises, and I dislike the lack of clear expectations.” My hands moved to my hips and I straightened my spine. “And if that makes me a little closed-minded, then I think I’m ok with that.” We.”

— Penny Reid

140. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

143. “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.”

— Penny Reid

144. “I wanted to explore this part of myself for me, not in spite of or because of another person. If I was going to change my style or add to it, I wanted to do it because of how it made me feel. Not because I wanted to make someone else feel better or view me differently.”

— Penny Reid

145. “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.”

— Penny Reid

146. “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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147. “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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148. “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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149. “Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It’s evolved and awesome.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid