Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “He’d drunk the “my government can do no wrong” Kool-Aid.”

— Penny Reid

302. “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

303. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

307. “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

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

— Penny Reid

309. “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

310. “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

311. “Jethro’s sarcasm was cool whip on whipped cream – completely unnecessary.”

— Penny Reid

312. “The thing is, if you can’t tell how a person feels about you, then you probably don’t want to know.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

314. “Over the last several days, I’d done a fair amount of practiced focusing on my present state of “lesness” – homelessness, joblessness and relationshiplessness. Less was not more. Less was an unstable, uncomfortable place to be.”

— Penny Reid

315. “He was so silly. So I said, “Duane, you are so silly.”

— Penny Reid

316. “Explaining the kiss away via alcohol-induced madness made my head feel better, as though the world had been righted on its axis, and inalienable truths still existed. It also made by heart plus all the girly parts of me fee bad, like when you find out Santa is a myth or that Superman doesn’t really exist.”

— Penny Reid

317. “I turned, feeling steady but somewhat dazed, and looked from the hand, now on my elbow, up the strong arm, around the curve of the bulky shoulder, and over the angular jaw and chin, until my eyes met the breath-hijacking sight of Sir Handsome McHotpants’s piercing blue eyes. I cringed.”

— Penny Reid

318. “Conclusion: What I needed was a shower helmet. I was fairly certain a shower helmet didn’t exist. I’d have to make one. Biting the inside of my bottom lip, I searched the kitchen drawers closest to the gas range and found what I sought: aluminum foil, parchment paper, tape, scissors, and plastic wrap.”

— Penny Reid

319. “Yep. That’s what I was thinking about. And, as an aside, I now understood the popularity of housedresses in the mid-twentieth century. A.”

— Penny Reid

320. “Italians who speak Italian should be illegal, or at least come with warning labels – may make your panties explode.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

322. “Right now, it feels like I’d be completely erasing who I was before,” he blurted, swallowed, and then lifted his eyes to mine. They weren’t so sharp. “And I liked that person, even if no one else did.”

— Penny Reid

323. “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

324. “No one makes all good choices, and everyone makes mistakes.”

— Penny Reid

325. “You want to meet Jon?” Instinctively my gaze searched for Elizabeth and I think I must have looked as stricken as I felt. She just stared at me with wide eyes.”

— Penny Reid

326. “Because if it’s possible to have a partner who gives all of themselves without reservation, who looks forward to working and sacrificing for me just as I look forward to doing the same for her, who can’t help but love ferociously, brutally, and unconditionally – and even perhaps without reason or sound judgment – that’s what I want. Because that’s how I plan to love in return.”

— Penny Reid

327. “I know it hurts, honey.” Mom flipped off the gas stove and wiped her hands on her apron, turning to face me fully. “And it’s okay to hurt. Hurting is just as much a part of life as joy, maybe even more important. Falling down teaches you how to stand up.”

— Penny Reid

328. “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.”

— Penny Reid

329. “How some pre-teens lose their minds for boy bands, rock stars, and hot celebrities, I always lost my marbles for Beau. It all started when he climbed a tree to save my cat. I was eight. He was ten. He’d kissed me on the cheek. He’d wiped my tears. He’d held my hand. He’d hugged me close. He was my hero. He’d saved my cat.”

— Penny Reid

330. “Iwas going to kiss her. But first I was going to strangle her.”

— Penny Reid

331. “Good girl. Test passed. I think I love you, Janie. Let’s get married and not have children.”

— Penny Reid

332. “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

334. “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

335. “Oh, gah! Right in the feels!”

— Penny Reid

336. “I once went on a date with a guy who chewed with his mouth open. It was like sitting across from a garbage disposal.”

— Penny Reid

337. “No matter what happened in your past, what ghosts might lurk there, the road you take is ultimately up to you,” I squeezed him back, “but – selfishly – I hope it’s always the road I’m on.”

— Penny Reid

338. “Clowns, in my experience, are like cats. They can sense when a person isn’t into them and then go out of their way to interact with that person.”

— Penny Reid

339. “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” – Robert Frost.”

— Penny Reid

340. “Why is that weird? Honestly it was kind of nice. We were both adulting like adult adults who behaved like adults.”

— Penny Reid

341. “Undies on, undies on, high ho the dairy-o, I’m going to keep my undies on!”

— Penny Reid

342. “Well, I’ll be.” “You’ll be a baboon with dysentery.”

— Penny Reid

343. “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.”

— Penny Reid

344. “I’d come to realize that if I feared what I couldn’t control, then I would fear everything.”

— Penny Reid

345. “Since most of my time was spent in unchecked soliloquy, I held out hope for some wisdom.”

— Penny Reid

346. “I was walking toward him without realizing I was moving, obviously he had me caught in some kind of charming tractor beam.”

— Penny Reid

347. “I’ve never been a fan of funerals for more than the obvious reasons. Of the emotions, mourning in particular feels like something that should be sacred and intensely private.”

— Penny Reid

348. “Only you can compare a relationship to a disease and make it sound both romantic and terminal.”

— Penny Reid

349. “Will you please refrain from shining your high beams at my retinas. You’ve blinded me.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid