Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Insincerity was taxing once you’d breathed the refreshing air of artless candor.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

309. “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

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

— Penny Reid

311. “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

312. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

315. “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

316. “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

317. “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

318. “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

319. “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

320. “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

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

— Penny Reid

322. “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

323. “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

324. “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

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

— Penny Reid

326. “Oh, gah! Right in the feels!”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

329. “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

330. “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

331. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

334. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

340. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

343. “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

344. “Whether or not I’m likable or nice or good or a Mary Sue is irrelevant. The fact is, I am boring and unlikable by your standards. That’s never going to change because I don’t subscribe to your standards.”

— Penny Reid

345. “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

346. “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

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

— Penny Reid

348. “I’d kiss you but I don’t want our beards to tangle.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

350. “Nevertheless, after an hour in the tub drinking alone, I felt no closer to solving my dilemma. Instead I was left with an empty bottle of wine, pruney fingers, and more questions.”

— Penny Reid