Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 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.”

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

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

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255. “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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256. “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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257. “Compassion without love felt suspiciously like pity.”

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

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

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260. “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.”

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

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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.”

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

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264. “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?”

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265. “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.”

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

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267. “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.”

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268. “Shelly considered me for a few seconds, then lifted her chin and kissed me once more softly, whispering, “You’ve seen me at my worst and you love me anyway. Give me the same chance. Show me who you are, and trust me to stay even if there are dark parts. But also, trust me to stay because of them.”

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269. “Greg ceased stomping around the room turned toward the open door, as though just noticing we had company. Both Dara and Hivan’s eyes widened and, in unison, the couple took a step back. Greg charged toward them, chasing them out of the room while continuing to shout-recite, “Oh, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace. Shame. Shame on thee!” And with that, he slammed the door in both their faces.”

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270. “Every stray deserves a chance at love, a home and a warm bed to sleep at night.”

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271. “Don’t give up on your alphabet.”

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272. “I’m not scary, I’m ridiculous.” I.”

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273. “For some reason it always irked me when people felt it necessary to draw attention to my height as though I wasn’t aware of my larger than average stature. I once responded: “Yes, and you’re very small.” but that didn’t go over very well, even though in that situation it was true.”

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

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276. “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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277. “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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278. “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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279. “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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280. “Did you really just say ‘by the mighty power of Thor’?” “I’m trying to cuss less.”

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

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

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

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286. “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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287. “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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288. “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.”

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

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290. “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.”

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

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

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293. “Who thinks, I’m going to cheat on my girlfriend, but I’ve got too much of a social conscience to leave my condom wrapper on the floor – heaven forbid I litter.”

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

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295. “A beautiful man is the devil’s most potent weapon.”

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296. “Bravery was still bravery, no matter how clumsy the execution.”

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

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

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299. “That’s right. I’m looking for an escape. Drew is out there. And – oh God – Cletus, I’m the worst. I’m so awkward, my awkward is embarrassed by my awkward.”

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300. “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.”

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