Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “My heart keeps finding new ways to love you.”

— Penny Reid

252. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

255. “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

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Penny Reid

266. “The rain, like the flame, is dangerous. But you don’t realize its power until it’s too late.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

268. “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

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

— Penny Reid

270. “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

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

— Penny Reid

272. “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

273. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

276. “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

277. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

280. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

284. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

287. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

293. “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.”

— Penny Reid

294. “I just feel sorry for men now. It must be frustrating to be so feeble and limited.”

— Penny Reid

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295. “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.”

— Penny Reid

296. “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.”

— Penny Reid

297. “I was looking at my past self through the one-way interrogation window of my current self, and it caused me to experience the strange sadness that accompanies helplessness. If only I could have told teenage Elizabeth that none of it actually mattered. It all seemed to matter so much at the time.”

— Penny Reid

298. “I was still tired, and this day had started out on a bizarre note and was circling the drain of strange.”

— Penny Reid

299. “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.”

— Penny Reid

300. “He doesn’t seem quiet to me, and he looks like he’d be a playboy, impregnating all the local girls with Viking babies.”

— Penny Reid