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

152. “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.”

— Penny Reid

153. “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

154. “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.”

— Penny Reid

155. “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

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

— Penny Reid

157. “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

158. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

161. “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

162. “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

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

— Penny Reid

164. “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

165. “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

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

172. “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

173. “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

174. “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

175. “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

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

— Penny Reid

177. “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

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

— Penny Reid

179. “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

180. “You have stolen my heart and soul, if such things exist for a creature like me. I’m yours. Forever. If you’ll have me.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Penny Reid

185. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

191. “Sometimes doing nothing is what we’re called to do, I think. Does that make sense? In any relationship, sometimes we play the lead, and sometimes we follow.”

— Penny Reid

192. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

195. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

198. “So the man told you the truth, and now you’re surprised to discover he didn’t lie.”

— Penny Reid

199. “Sir McCoolpants Von No Touchy.”

— Penny Reid

200. “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