Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Oh, Jennifer!” She said my name low and rough, as though it were a swear word. “A lady does not wear overalls.”

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

255. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

257. “Wait for your Pierre, Natasha.”

— Penny Reid

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

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

— Penny Reid

261. “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

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

— Penny Reid

263. “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

264. “Anger was essential because otherwise I was just tremendously sad. Bitterness and anger provided harvestable energy, something on which to focus, something through which to work. Sadness simply left me adrift. But.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

267. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

269. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

273. “There will be no bananas!” “There will be entire tropical rainforests of bananas! And coconuts!” I gestured to my breasts. “And, hopefully, bananas rubbing against coconuts.”

— Penny Reid

274. “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.”

— Penny Reid

275. “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan.”

— Penny Reid

276. “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.”

— Penny Reid

277. “You’re the girl that guys like us, if we’re smart and if we’re lucky that is, you’re the girl we marry. You’re the marriage girl.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

279. “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

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

— Penny Reid

281. “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.”

— Penny Reid

282. “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

283. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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286. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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289. “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

290. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

293. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

300. “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