Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Sir McCoolpants Von No Touchy.”

— Penny Reid

202. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

209. “I would wait until she came to me. Or, I would wait until I could wait no longer.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

211. “I studied the smile, couldn’t decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn’t too invested. Once invested, I couldn’t separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true.”

— Penny Reid

212. “You can’t just go around giving people cars. You’re not Oprah.”

— Penny Reid

213. “I’d been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery.”

— Penny Reid

214. “You’ll have to read the book, and don’t interrupt me. It’s distracting enough looking at you. You’ve already derailed my brain train with your face several times.”

— Penny Reid

215. “Compassion without love felt suspiciously like pity.”

— Penny Reid

216. “I feel like it’s compulsory to play “Amazing Grace” during a Christian funeral. It’s the only way to make sure everyone leaves sobbing like a baby.”

— Penny Reid

217. “We all belong to ourselves, until we have children. Then our children lease us for as long as they want.”

— Penny Reid

218. “Don’t give up on your alphabet.”

— Penny Reid

219. “I loved begging him, following his rules. I loved the freedom I found in complete capitulation.”

— Penny Reid

220. “When I finished my tale of both woe and whoa...”

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221. “Soon all the leaves would fall, leaving this spot bare and brown. I felt like I was looking at the pinnacle of a particularly dazzling firework as it filled the night sky, just before it lost its shape and faded into darkness.”

— Penny Reid

222. “Tell me what you need,” he said between raining soft kisses against my hair, temple, and cheek. “I’ll do anything for you.”

— Penny Reid

223. “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

224. “Please let me know if I can ever be of service pushing you in a similar fashion.” I watched him take a deep breath, his gaze moving over my features – still warm with affection – and he said in a near whisper, “My momma once told me, you don’t need to be pushed in order to fall. I don’t think you’ll need to do much pushing, Jessica.”

— Penny Reid

225. “I love to read, but I’m not a writer. I love philosophy, but I’m not a philosopher. I love art, but I can’t paint, I can’t draw or sculpt. I love movies and the theater, but I’m a terrible actor. Therefore, I’m a patron.”

— Penny Reid

226. “It’s not the wanting part that makes you crazy. It’s the blackmailing-me-into-marrying-you-and-giving-you-a-baby that brings your mental health into question.” Jennifer.”

— Penny Reid

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

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228. “Take romance for instance. Fictional women in romance novels never get their period. They never have morning breath. They orgasm seventeen times a day. And they never seem to have jobs with bosses.”

— Penny Reid

229. “Very clever of him to give me something my heart didn’t know it wanted in exchange for a promise.”

— Penny Reid

230. “Do you honestly think God would make a creature as lovely and talented and good as your sister, and then make the way she looks something sinful? Something to be ashamed of? No. He wouldn’t. If anything, your sister – her face, her body, her mind, and her heart – give glory to Him. And she shouldn’t be hidden. You don’t hide something that remarkable away from the world, like your parents have done, like you want to do. That’s the true sin.”

— Penny Reid

231. “Realization of his philandering arrived via an empty condom wrapper tucked in the back pocket of his jeans as I, the dutifully dumb girlfriend, decided to do him a favor by throwing some of his laundry in with mine.”

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232. “Wait for your Pierre, Natasha.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

234. “For some reason it always irked me when people felt it necessary to draw attention to my height as though I wasn’t aware of my larger than average stature. I once responded: “Yes, and you’re very small.” but that didn’t go over very well, even though in that situation it was true.”

— Penny Reid

235. “My heart keeps finding new ways to love you.”

— Penny Reid

236. “My internal temper tantrum tirade continued: But attracting and holding the interest of someone like Quinn Sullivan will have to go into my box of make believe with the eventual remake of Final Fantasy 7 with Playstation 3 graphics or finding an original, pristine version of Detective Comics No. 27- Batman’s debut.”

— Penny Reid

237. “I’m not scary, I’m ridiculous.” I.”

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238. “Yes, your problem. Maybe you’re focused too much on the negatives. The negative invoices on the relationship spreadsheet.” I started to laugh, “My problem is I miss the obvious, your problem is that you pay too much attention to it.”

— Penny Reid

239. “Stop it.” Cletus snapped his fingers in front of our faces. “I hate it when you two mind-meld through your eyeballs.”

— Penny Reid

240. “But I want to be your only source of romantic situations from this point forward.”

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241. “If you give Cletus an inch, he’ll take a light-year.”

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242. “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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243. “Shelly considered me for a few seconds, then lifted her chin and kissed me once more softly, whispering, “You’ve seen me at my worst and you love me anyway. Give me the same chance. Show me who you are, and trust me to stay even if there are dark parts. But also, trust me to stay because of them.”

— Penny Reid

244. “Greg ceased stomping around the room turned toward the open door, as though just noticing we had company. Both Dara and Hivan’s eyes widened and, in unison, the couple took a step back. Greg charged toward them, chasing them out of the room while continuing to shout-recite, “Oh, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace. Shame. Shame on thee!” And with that, he slammed the door in both their faces.”

— Penny Reid

245. “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

246. “So you created firewalls for mob bosses? As an aside, if I started a band, Mob Boss Firewall would be an excellent name.”

— Penny Reid

247. “Non-knitters just didn’t understand the dynamics of a knitting group. It wasn’t just a good time or a fun time; it was the best time.”

— Penny Reid

248. “Seriously, big guy, you just need to make like a shepherd and get the flock out of here.”

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249. “Quinn, that’s the ring from downstairs!” I hissed in a loud whisper because I was afraid of the answer. “Did you steal that ring?”

— Penny Reid

250. “Oh, Jennifer!” She said my name low and rough, as though it were a swear word. “A lady does not wear overalls.”

— Penny Reid