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

252. “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

253. “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

254. “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

255. “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

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

— Penny Reid

257. “But that wasn’t how I rolled. Prolonged irrationality wasn’t in my wheelhouse. Recrimination was not my homeboy.”

— Penny Reid

258. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

262. “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.”

— Penny Reid

263. “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

264. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

— Penny Reid

268. “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?”

— Penny Reid

269. “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

270. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

274. “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

275. “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

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

— Penny Reid

277. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

280. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

285. “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

286. “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

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

— Penny Reid

288. “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.”

— Penny Reid

289. “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

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

— Penny Reid

291. “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

292. “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

293. “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

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.”

— Penny Reid

295. “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

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

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297. “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

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

— Penny Reid

299. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid