Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

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

— 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. “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

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

— Penny Reid

306. “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

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

312. “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

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

— Penny Reid

314. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

317. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

320. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

323. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

327. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

330. “Being quiet can be louder than shouting.’” I.”

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

334. “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

335. “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

336. “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

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

340. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

343. “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

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

— Penny Reid

345. “Are you a hooker?” I flexed my superpower – hiding all thoughts and emotions – and gave him an unperturbed smile.”

— Penny Reid

346. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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349. “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

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

— Penny Reid