Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Each marriage is a living thing, just as complex as the two individuals within it.”

— Penny Reid

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

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

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157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

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166. “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

167. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Penny Reid

173. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

176. “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

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

— Penny Reid

178. “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

179. “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

180. “Why are you so anxious to build yourself a ceiling? Why don’t you build a rocket instead?”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

— Penny Reid

187. “We’re not pumpkins. We’re stunning autumn gourds.”

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188. “The only items she approved of in my wardrobe were my shoes. In fact, she borrowed a pair of orange faux-crocodile leather wedge heals with a turquoise bow at the toe. I wore a zebra printed spiked heal; the rest of my outfit came from her closet. She said I owned the clothes of a radiologist and the shoes of an OBGYN; which is like the medical doctor equivalent of saying that I dressed like a librarian with a propensity for fuckmeboots.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

190. “I was asked if I’d had a chance to spend any time gambling since we’d arrived. I wanted to respond that life was a gamble, and we were all losers.”

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

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192. “Why do you love it?” I had a sense that I would enjoy her answer. I knew it would be unexpected and unique. Everything about her was unexpected and unique. She was my bright light of eccentricity in a very predictable and ordinary world. She made everything new and interesting or funny.”

— Penny Reid

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

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194. “Sir McCoolpants Von No Touchy.”

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195. “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

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

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197. “Over the past forty days, I think I grieved for her every hour. In a way, I grieved for her before she died. And now that she was gone, I grieved for her still. Part of me wondered, however, if the grief would have been sharper, more debilitating, if I hadn’t been given the month to say goodbye.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

200. “I did not want to dwell on my past. These people typically wished to swap stories. I had no desire for commiseration.”

— Penny Reid