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

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

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353. “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

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

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

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

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

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358. “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

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

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

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362. “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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363. “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.”

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364. “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.”

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365. “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.”

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366. “Right now, it feels like I’d be completely erasing who I was before,” he blurted, swallowed, and then lifted his eyes to mine. They weren’t so sharp. “And I liked that person, even if no one else did.”

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367. “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.”

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

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369. “What?” I whispered, suspicious, still fighting my flare of hormones. Or, more precisely, whoremones. That’s.”

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

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371. “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.”

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372. “Oh, gah! Right in the feels!”

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

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

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

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376. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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385. “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.”

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

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

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389. “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.”

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

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

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392. “I felt like Scarlett O’Hara after she was kissed by Rhett Butler, confused and anxious and swoony and wanting it to happen again.”

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

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394. “What will you do when you have kids?’ and I’m like, ‘The same thing I do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world.”

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395. “Come self-sufficient. Come powerful. Or come weak and uncertain. Just come to me. And stay. Trust that you are precisely the right piece, because you are the missing piece – in my life and of my heart.”

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396. “I frowned at him and his sensible words. Stupid sensible words.”

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397. “I inhaled slowly and thought about making a joke about how the NSA doesn’t really need to call anyone; they just interrupt while you’re already on the phone.”

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398. “I wondered what steps I could take to remove the word ‘moisture’ or even ‘moist’ from the English language; I really hated the way it sounded and always went out of my way to avoid saying it.”

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

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

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