Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “If you don’t fight for what you love, then you have nothing worth losing.”

— Penny Reid

102. “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

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. “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

105. “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

106. “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

108. “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.”

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

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110. “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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111. “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.”

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

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

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

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115. “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

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

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

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

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119. “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.”

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

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121. “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.”

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

— Penny Reid

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

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124. “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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125. “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.”

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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. “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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128. “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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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. “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.”

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131. “Thanks for being such a bully.” I flattened my expression. “I wasn’t a bully. I was merely a persistent peddler of holiday cheer.”

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132. “Yep. His epic good looks without succumbing to the adorable label had made him a man-unicorn in my mind. Or a merman. Or a Loch Ness Monstman. He was a mystical creature.”

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133. “You should do something funny, right now. Say something funny.”

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

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

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136. “I’m going to take this from you, but you shouldn’t be surprised because you know I’m a selfish bastard.” His voice was low, gravely, almost a whisper, his lips just inches from mine. “But I also want to make sure it’s done right. I don’t know this Mark from art history. He could be a rubbish kisser, scarring you for life. It might take me years of kiss-therapy to undo the damage.”

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

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138. “She was a superhero. She was my hero. Therefore, moments when she allowed herself to display vulnerability were distressing. It was like watching Superman struggle through a bout of kryptonite exposure.”

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

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141. “It’s not spandex, it’s a Kevlar blend.” His voice lowered to a growly whisper. “I’m so turned on right now.”

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142. “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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143. “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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144. “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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145. “You’re it, Jessica James. And that’s the truth. Not racing or going fast. Not fixing up old cars. I want to spend my life with you. And maybe that makes me wrong in the head and unhealthy, or old-fashioned, but when I think of my future and what I want, all I see is you.”

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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. “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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148. “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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149. “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.”

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150. “The first time I heard him speak, I was sunk; his voice made my stomach do a skydive to my toes without a parachute. His voice reminded me of jazz and the bedroom and a strip tease: melodic, deep, soothing, slightly sandpapery, but with an irreverent, careless quality. I daydreamed about him reading me a book, the newspaper, a greeting card, an eviction notice – anything.”

— Penny Reid