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

152. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

156. “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

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

— Penny Reid

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

168. “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

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

— Penny Reid

170. “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

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

177. “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

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Penny Reid

181. “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

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

— Penny Reid

184. “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

185. “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

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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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189. “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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190. “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

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

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

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

— Penny Reid

194. “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

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

— Penny Reid

196. “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

197. “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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198. “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.”

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199. “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

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

— Penny Reid