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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

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155. “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.”

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156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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.”

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160. “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

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

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

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

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164. “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.”

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165. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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172. “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.”

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

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174. “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.”

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175. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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180. “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

181. “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan.”

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

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183. “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.”

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184. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

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

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189. “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.”

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

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191. “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.”

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192. “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.”

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

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

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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. “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. “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.”

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198. “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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199. “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.”

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200. “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