Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “I tried my best to pretend unkind words were actually just erroneously expressed compliments, as it just made everything nicer for everybody.”

— Penny Reid

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

309. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

312. “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

313. “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

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

— Penny Reid

315. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

319. “You don’t think all this weeping makes me weak?” “No. I think it makes you brave, because it also makes you soft, and sweet, and honest. And those might not be parts of yourself that you value – or other people see as valuable – but those are the real, raw, essential pieces of you. You deserve to share them with someone, and if that’s me, I’m honored to be that person. I will always, always treasure this side of you.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

322. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

326. “Sorry I’m late. I got caught jaywalking and had to give the policeman a hand job or pay a seventy-five dollar fine.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

328. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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330. “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.”

— Penny Reid

331. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

334. “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

335. “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

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

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

— Penny Reid

340. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

343. “I saw an opportunist in banana-cake clothing. Let the record show, I did not roll my eyes. Schooling.”

— Penny Reid

344. “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

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

— Penny Reid

346. “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

347. “She told me I should be proud of my healthy shape and healthy body and love it and treasure it because it was mine. No one, she said, could tell me what to think of my body. If I let another person’s opinion matter I was giving him or her control over me, and I had complete control over my own self-image.”

— Penny Reid

348. “She’s your 1968 Plymouth Barracuda. Everyone knows that, well... everyone that matters.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid