Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Very clever of him to give me something my heart didn’t know it wanted in exchange for a promise.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

253. “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

254. “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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255. “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

256. “Wait for your Pierre, Natasha.”

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

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

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259. “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

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

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261. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

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265. “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.”

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266. “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.”

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267. “Over the years I’d learned absence doesn’t make the heart grow fonder. The heart becomes wary, somnolent and cynical during periods of prolonged absence, burdened with cares and fears borne in solitude. However, absence does make the body greedy and irrationally amorous with frustrated need.”

— Penny Reid

268. “A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I’m not much of a giggler unless I’ve done something sinister.”

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269. “How are we supposed to teach our children compassion if we remove all inconveniences from the world around them?” “But.”

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270. “She was a line usurper and a bully. I wasn’t in the mood to be bullied or usurped.”

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271. “Sorry I’m late. I got caught jaywalking and had to give the policeman a hand job or pay a seventy-five dollar fine.”

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272. “Moments of quiet ordinary, made extraordinary by sharing them with the woman I love.”

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273. “Drew sighed. “I’m going to need a chart to keep up with y’all. I can’t remember who is related to who these days.”

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274. “I tried my best to pretend unkind words were actually just erroneously expressed compliments, as it just made everything nicer for everybody.”

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275. “Conversely, if a person didn’t place value on what they lacked, then they would never strive to be better.”

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276. “I don’t want a beautiful week with you. I want a beautiful lifetime.”

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277. “She lifted up a bag on her shoulder and informed me that not only had she brought me a swim suit, it was a string bikini. I thought I might die of happiness. That last part isn’t true. I was being sarcastic. Sorry.”

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278. “Everything could be reasoned away or made to look silly with enough rational scrutiny. Faith, love, hope, lust, anger, sadness, compassion – everything.”

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279. “I once tried being dramatic when I was fourteen. My mother told me to add it to the calendar.”

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280. “In my defense, it wasn’t my monster truck. It was my mother’s.”

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281. “Never try to be other than you are. You are perfection, just as you are.”

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282. “Although it seemed like such a simple thing, for the first time in my life I realized the importance of an introduction. An introduction by a mutual friend buys instant credibility, especially when the mutual friend was universally liked – as.”

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283. “In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path” – Swami Vivekananda.”

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284. “Even in my relationship with Jon we’d both recognized that I required a generous amount of space and alone time in order to behave with appropriate affection when we were together.”

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285. “I like you because you are Kaitlyn – genuine, beautiful, brilliant, amazing Kaitlyn – not because you’re Kaitlyn Parker. And I’m in love with you because I can’t help myself.”

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286. “Duct tape is man’s answer to electrons and protons. It’s how we keep matter together.”

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287. “Who is your famous crush? If a super-hot Hollywood actor who also happened to be a great person wanted to take you home – and the lights stayed on during the deed – what would you do? I mean, not in theory. Honestly, what would you do?” Claire looked at me for a long moment then asked, “Would I get a heads up a few months ahead of time? So I could eat low carb and start working out?” “No.” “Then, honestly, I’d run the other way.”

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288. “Kaitlyn Parker has popped Martin Sandeke’s spooning cherry.” I felt his smile grow just before he said, “It’s only fair. I hope to pop your forking cherry.”

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289. “You give me offense, and I take it. I take offense to the fact that you would stand here and belittle Simone’s beliefs and her work to correct what she feels are grave wrongs when you take no action to fight for your beliefs. It is one thing to compare or even belittle sacred truths when both parties are working toward rectifying wrongs. But it is quite another to rail against a person who is doing something when you do nothing.”

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290. “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.”

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291. “He gazed at me with something that felt like wonder and said, his voice a quiet rumble, “I don’t think I’ll keep score with you.”

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292. “I never cross-pollinate fantasy and reality.”

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293. “Boys are stupid. I needed to explore becoming a lesbian. I needed to add this to my to-do list and bump it up to the top.”

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

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295. “For all my bravado, when I fell, I fell hard. I fell fast. I fell stupid. I invested too much too soon. My capacity for giving was matched only by their capacity for taking.”

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296. “I want to touch you and kiss you, frequently, and I want you – ” he shifted on his feet as though steadying himself then his hand reached out; he stepped closer and he cupped my cheek in his palm, “I want you to touch me.”

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297. “Did you really just say ‘by the mighty power of Thor’?” “I’m trying to cuss less.”

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298. “Insincerity was taxing once you’d breathed the refreshing air of artless candor.”

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299. “He’d drunk the “my government can do no wrong” Kool-Aid.”

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300. “You’re going to bend, and so am I. We’re going to compromise, negotiate, and distract each other. Being together means our priorities are going to change. That’s what happens when you make space for another person. Comfort zones will be stretched.”

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