Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Penny Reid

152. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

155. “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.”

— Penny Reid

156. “You’re a siren who doesn’t need to sing.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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158. “When things are fantastic, it’s hard not to expect that the worst is waiting to pounce on you from a dark corner.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

162. “He also smelled like a profligate, cologne, and unrequited infatuation.”

— Penny Reid

163. “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.”

— Penny Reid

164. “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.”

— Penny Reid

165. “I had an odd thought just then, that I should only ever whisper her name, and that she should always be close enough to hear it.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

167. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

169. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

171. “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.”

— Penny Reid

172. “Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.” – W. Somerset Maugham.”

— Penny Reid

173. “The rain, like the flame, is dangerous. But you don’t realize its power until it’s too late.”

— Penny Reid

174. “It’s seductive, to live in a virtual space, especially when the real world isn’t what you want it to be.”

— Penny Reid

175. “Tuesday Horoscope: Your happily ever after begins today, as long as you remember there is no such thing as happily ever after.”

— Penny Reid

176. “I don’t like to judge people. I love it. Writing.”

— Penny Reid

177. “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

178. “They weren’t making decisions; they may as well have been curtains. There.”

— Penny Reid

179. “After dinner, we were all in the kitchen helping with the dishes, and I had the thought, Someone should go check on Momma. And that’s when I started to cry.”

— Penny Reid

180. “He needed to pick one muffin, and stick with that muffin. He didn’t get to lay claim to all the muffins, because that’s not how life worked.”

— Penny Reid

181. “I wasn’t wondering whether you had a lip fungus, but thank you for getting that awkward conversation out of the way.”

— Penny Reid

182. “Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.”

— Penny Reid

183. “I slept horribly. But, no matter. That was the thing about sleep, there would always be more time to practice.”

— Penny Reid

184. “I didn’t hear the rest of Steven’s musings. I was in the Matrix and I’d just unwittingly taken the red pill.”

— Penny Reid

185. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman.”

— Penny Reid

186. “Not everyone is capable of fighting the great fights. Not everyone is brave and strong and powerful. Let people have their causes. Allow them their victories, when victories can be had, without begrudging the wrongs that they right. Attending to injustice, no matter how small, is always a worthy cause.” His.”

— Penny Reid

187. “Sometimes, things are sad and unfortunate. But finding the funny in a situation can make the sad and unfortunate more bearable.”

— Penny Reid

188. “The six Winston boys had inherited their father’s ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women.”

— Penny Reid

189. “Being in love is a lot like being hacked.”

— Penny Reid

190. “I would not always be joy, nor would I want inert contentment. Sorrow and struggle bring gravity to the soul and to the mind, a gravity that cannot be achieved through mere happiness. We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer.”

— Penny Reid

191. “No. Billy.” I gave my older brother a severe scowl. “This is my refrigerator. I need to do it. You can’t be doing everything for all of us. Don’t keep shouldering all the burdens. Otherwise, we’ll never learn how.”

— Penny Reid

192. “Just because you don’t feel calm, doesn’t mean you can’t be calm.”

— Penny Reid

193. “Cletus had instructed Duane to put his concerns in the suggestion box. Of note, Cletus had labeled the shredder in the upstairs office suggestion box a year ago when Duane had suggested half days on Fridays. “What.”

— Penny Reid

194. “These stubborn people and their demands were like cracker crumbs in my beard: irritating and flaky.”

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195. “Our will is only as strong as our body; the desire for what we need will always trump ideals.”

— Penny Reid

196. “If I wanted commentary on my ass, I would go to a proctologist.” My.”

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197. “Anger was essential because otherwise I was just tremendously sad. Bitterness and anger provided harvestable energy, something on which to focus, something through which to work. Sadness simply left me adrift. But.”

— Penny Reid

198. “Something I think we forget, living in the time we do, is that generations before us didn’t have the luxury of healthy relationships.”

— Penny Reid

199. “Parker, what are you doing?” “Making a funny face in an effort to make you stop staring at me like I murdered your beloved goldfish.”

— Penny Reid

200. “You don’t need to befriend them in order to lead them.”

— Penny Reid