Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Being in love is a lot like being hacked.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

204. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

207. “We’re not pumpkins. We’re stunning autumn gourds.”

— Penny Reid

208. “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

209. “Why are you so anxious to build yourself a ceiling? Why don’t you build a rocket instead?”

— Penny Reid

210. “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

211. “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

212. “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

213. “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

214. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

217. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

221. “Sir McCoolpants Von No Touchy.”

— Penny Reid

222. “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

223. “Why do people care about each other? What is attraction? I can’t give you a list of reasons why I react to you like I do. This isn’t an equation to balance. You’re the one I’m always thinking about. It’s you. It just is.” “You.”

— Penny Reid

224. “I might cry later, at home, while watching Steel Magnolias and dressed like a homeless person. Sometimes I applied mascara before crying just to heighten the experience.”

— Penny Reid

225. “He’s the man equivalent of a gun to the head, except without the fear for my life aspect.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

227. “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

228. “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

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

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230. “Whether or not I’m likable or nice or good or a Mary Sue is irrelevant. The fact is, I am boring and unlikable by your standards. That’s never going to change because I don’t subscribe to your standards.”

— Penny Reid

231. “Boys are stupid. I needed to explore becoming a lesbian.”

— Penny Reid

232. “Wait for your Pierre, Natasha.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

234. “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

235. “Breathless and Wretched, the new fragrance by Calvin Klein.”

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236. “Quinn, you sound like a monologuing supervillain.”

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

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238. “Love was never enough, not without mutual respect and a great deal of drudgery and effort. And even then, it wasn’t enough. Wanting each other, being open to change, pushing each other to improve and grow – for the better – working to deserve each other, was the key.”

— Penny Reid

239. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

242. “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

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

— Penny Reid

244. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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247. “It is a universally acknowledged, inalienable truth that a knitter faced with the unadorned neck, head, and hands of a person she cares for feels an overwhelming compulsion to smother that person in fancy hand-knits.”

— Penny Reid

248. “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

249. “In all honesty, I’d enjoyed the horse ride more than the man ride. At least the horse had been a stallion. Looking back, my lab TA was more like a Shetland pony – hairy and small.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid