Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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355. “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

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

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

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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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361. “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

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

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363. “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

364. “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

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

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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

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370. “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

371. “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.”

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

— Penny Reid

373. “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.”

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374. “I want you to belong to me and I want to belong to you. I.”

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375. “If he couldn’t give me everything then I wanted nothing.”

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376. “Quinn. His name was Quinn. I must to remember to call him Quinn, not Sir Handsome McHotpants.”

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377. “Does he give you zings in your things?”

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378. “Me want Martin flavored cookie! Me want cookie now!!”

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379. “Let me explain what happened. I’ll try to keep it as emotion free as possible for the sake of all the people who can’t deal with the ups and the downs, and the drama and the angst. This is because I’m one of those people. I can’t deal with the drama. Admittedly, this is likely because I was raised in a drama-free household. I once tried being dramatic when I was fourteen. My mother told me to add it to the calendar.”

— Penny Reid

380. “Sorry. That was melodramatic. Let me clarify: I didn’t want to die, I wanted to be unconscious.”

— Penny Reid

381. “I want to be your first everything.”

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382. “Everyone knows that in real life, fictionally handsome men are vacuous vessels of Satan.”

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383. “Your birthday gift to me is to place me in the middle of an art heist so that I can taser someone?” He nodded, smiling, looking very proud. “Thank you, Alex. I mean it. I... I just love you so much.”

— Penny Reid

384. “Because you scratched my itch and then you kissed me – both of which freaked me out because neither of which are in the course syllabus for laboratory experiments this semester. And, furthermore –.”

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385. “You’re callous because you have to be. Because otherwise you’d be bleeding all the time.”

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386. “My Jenn. Not Billy’s Jenn. Mine. “Jennifer.”

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387. “The protector inside me was frowning while the predator soaked up her discomfort with glee.”

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388. “Oh! Oh, I get it! She was one of your slamps.”

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389. “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.”

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

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391. “But what feels good isn’t always what’s good for me, and I’m not willing to settle for being with someone who sometimes treats me well. I’d rather be alone.”

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392. “I’d once overheard my daddy tell my momma that the six Winston boys had inherited their father’s ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women.”

— Penny Reid

393. “Yes. This is a party. I am in the laundry room reading.”

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394. “The color of her eyes was mossy gold. It make me want to write crap poetry and hire a skywriter.” Quinn Sullivan.”

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395. “His gaze was impossibly kind as he said, “Then, daughter dear, call me Dad.”

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396. “As much as the idea of collaring and leashing you sounds promising, the purpose of the phone is to ensure you’re reachable.” I interrupted him. “You mean bound and restrained.” “Janie, if I wanted to restrain you, I’d use rope.”

— Penny Reid

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

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398. “Only if you stop using the F-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it.”

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399. “I truly loathed cell phones. I hated the way they made me feel reachable twenty-four hours a day;.”

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400. “His eyes always seemed to be a shade of up-to-no-good blue.”

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