Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “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

252. “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.”

— Penny Reid

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

256. “I love getting lost in someone else’s story, thinking about life from their perspective, living their experiences.” “Why don’t you live your own experiences?” I wrinkled my nose at this question. “Why would I do that when I can be a hundred different people a year? Live a hundred different lives.”

— Penny Reid

257. “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

258. “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

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.”

— Penny Reid

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

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

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262. “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

263. “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

264. “I’ve come to understand clothes matter to most people because society decrees how a person is ‘packaged’ reflects the internal values, abilities, and personality of that person. This packaging is often called ‘personal expression.’ Since deciphering this, I’ve resented the concept of personal expression.”

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265. “Why did it have to be Sir McHotpants? Why couldn’t they have sent Colonel Mustard le Mustache or Lady Jelly O’Belly?”

— Penny Reid

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

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268. “Best to leave farts and the past behind you.”

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

— Penny Reid

270. “I’m just saying, if you can’t have an adventure where you are, what makes you think you’ll have an adventure anywhere else?”

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271. “I want to ask if you’re okay, but I don’t want to keep asking if you’re okay. So I’m gonna limit myself to asking once every six hours.”

— Penny Reid

272. “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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273. “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

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

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

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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

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

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

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287. “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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288. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

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290. “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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291. “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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292. “Duct tape is man’s answer to electrons and protons. It’s how we keep matter together.”

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293. “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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294. “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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295. “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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296. “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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297. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill.”

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

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

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300. “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.”

— Penny Reid