Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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.”

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

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

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256. “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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257. “Wait for your Pierre, Natasha.”

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

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259. “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.”

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

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261. “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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262. “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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263. “We all belong to ourselves, until we have children. Then our children lease us for as long as they want.”

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

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265. “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.”

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

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267. “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.”

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

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269. “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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270. “People say comparison is the thief of joy when it comes to success, right? But it’s also the thief of compassion when it comes to suffering.”

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271. “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.”

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272. “Make no mistake, what just happened between us was momentous for me. My life and heart have been forever transformed. You are the architect and artist of my own personal paradise. Now, when I close my eyes, I won’t need to imagine what heaven feels like. I’ll know.”

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273. “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.”

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274. “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.”

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

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

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

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278. “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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279. “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.”

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

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281. “Yep. That’s what I was thinking about. And, as an aside, I now understood the popularity of housedresses in the mid-twentieth century. A.”

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

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

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284. “I allowed my mind and heart to hold hands for a bit and tell me what they wanted for Christmas next year, and every year after.”

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285. “I’m not like that. I’m not going to enter a race I can’t win.”

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

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287. “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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288. “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.”

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

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

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292. “I hated being early. It was like having to wait for the same thing twice.”

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293. “I was so poor, I couldn’t even pay attention.’” I.”

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294. “No one expects an eighty-five-year-old Navy SEAL stripper. No one. And that was the beauty of George.”

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295. “I can tell you there are as many kinds of love in the world as there are stars in the sky.”

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296. “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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297. “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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298. “Did you really just say ‘by the mighty power of Thor’?” “I’m trying to cuss less.”

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

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300. “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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