Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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. “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

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

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155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

163. “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

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

— Penny Reid

165. “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

166. “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

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

— Penny Reid

168. “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

169. “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

170. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

174. “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

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

— Penny Reid

176. “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

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

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

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180. “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

181. “Sir McCoolpants Von No Touchy.”

— Penny Reid

182. “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

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

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

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185. “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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186. “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

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

— Penny Reid

188. “He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche.”

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189. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

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191. “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

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

— Penny Reid

193. “I embraced it. Actually, I tackle-hugged it.”

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194. “Cell phones, like the other social media constructs of our time, encourage the collecting of so-called friends and contacts similar to how my grandmother used to collect teacups and put them on display in her china cabinet. Only now, the teacups are people, and the china cabinet is Facebook.”

— Penny Reid

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

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196. “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

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

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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. “They’ve got to have backups on the cloud, or the mist, or whatever it’s called.”

— Penny Reid

200. “If they don’t learn about launching rockets at home, then they’ll just learn about it on the streets.” I glowered at him. “That sounds like something Hitler would say.”

— Penny Reid