Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Penny Reid

303. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

306. “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

307. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

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

— Penny Reid

316. “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

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

321. “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

322. “Oh, gah! Right in the feels!”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

326. “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

327. “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

328. “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

329. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

332. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

338. “Because when a guy sees a car he likes, all he can think about is getting under the hood or taking her for a ride.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

340. “I felt dichotomously dismayed and dazedly giddy by the prospect.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

342. “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

343. “What was one more debit of mortification when my balance sheet was already in the red.”

— Penny Reid

344. “I didn’t tell her, because I didn’t think it would help, but all people are lost, to varying degrees. I suspected that it’s only when we love others – through purpose, friendship, romance, or any combination thereof – that we become found.”

— Penny Reid

345. “Congratulations, Jethro. She’s sweet on you. You’ve just taken one the world’s most famous role models of feminine independence and turned her into a giddy, flustered mess of hormones.”

— Penny Reid

346. “I’m not talking about the girl who wants to have fun and a good time with no strings attached. I’m talking about the girl who’s looking for a free ride after the ride ends.”

— Penny Reid

347. “Maybe Jethro, Claire, and I can live together in harmony. Maybe she can be my sister wife. Yes. That was the answer. She could have her pretty farmhouse and custody of Jethro on Sundays. I could have him the rest of the week. And if she touched him, I would claw her eyes out. Perfect.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

350. “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