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

152. “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

153. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

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163. “Just that, two people, witnessing or experiencing the same event, can have two entirely different interpretations of the truth. To one person, the knot was a heart, and removing it devastated the stone such that it succumbed to the artist’s vision. To another, the knot was an obstruction to the stone, preventing it from being what or who it was meant to be.”

— Penny Reid

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Penny Reid

168. “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

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

— Penny Reid

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

173. “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

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

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

— Penny Reid

176. “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

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Penny Reid

180. “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

181. “This was our beginning. I couldn’t wait for the middle. And I never wanted it to end.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

183. “You’re becoming invisible under the weight of unhappiness.”

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184. “So I buried myself under my covers and cried like it was my job and I was hoping for a promotion.”

— Penny Reid

185. “One man’s big bottom is another man’s idea of stunning; don’t hold it against this guy if he likes curves on his girl. On second thought, do hold it against him.”

— Penny Reid

186. “This was our life. This woman was my future. She would be the mother of my children. This was our beginning. I couldn’t wait for the middle. And I never wanted it to end.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

— Penny Reid

195. “Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.”

— Penny Reid

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196. “I exist as many things. All of them are in love with you.”

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197. “When I was younger, I wanted plenty of things, plenty of people, until I realized there was no point in wanting. Since then, I’ve never had something I wanted, not really. Not ’til you.”

— Penny Reid

198. “But when Marie laughed, when her mouth curved in a perfect arch, when her eyes became the combined colors of hydrogen on the visible light spectrum, when the manifestation of happiness as perfect music passed her lips, then time stopped.”

— Penny Reid

199. “I will do anything to prove that to you. I will do anything to prove that what we have is worth a battle. What we have is worth a war.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid