Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “The color of her eyes was mossy gold. It make me want to write crap poetry and hire a skywriter.” Quinn Sullivan.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

353. “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.”

— Penny Reid

354. “A beautiful man is the devil’s most potent weapon.”

— Penny Reid

355. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

358. “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

359. “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 –.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

365. “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.”

— Penny Reid

366. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

368. “There will be no bananas!” “There will be entire tropical rainforests of bananas! And coconuts!” I gestured to my breasts. “And, hopefully, bananas rubbing against coconuts.”

— Penny Reid

369. “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

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

— Penny Reid

371. “Make no mistake, what just happened between us was momentous for me. My life and heart have been forever transformed. You are the architect and artist of my own personal paradise. Now, when I close my eyes, I won’t need to imagine what heaven feels like. I’ll know.”

— Penny Reid

372. “Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

376. “That’s right. I’m looking for an escape. Drew is out there. And – oh God – Cletus, I’m the worst. I’m so awkward, my awkward is embarrassed by my awkward.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

378. “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

379. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

381. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

385. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

387. “I should have listened to that woman with the ring. You don’t get a ring like deathbringer without knowing what’s what.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

389. “I didn’t want to be peed on.”

— Penny Reid

390. “Think of how much better the world would be if people craved compliments about the beauty of their heart rather than the beauty of their face.”

— Penny Reid

391. “It’s difficult – no, it’s impossible – as a child to see yourself as worthy or worth knowing if no one else does.”

— Penny Reid

392. “I walked into Elizabeth’s apartment feeling like a zombie. I needed brains.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

395. “Also, hon, you may not have been as transparent with your advances as you believe. I’ve seen you, you’re not a skilled flirter. It’s usually hard to watch.”

— Penny Reid

396. “When people are overwhelmed, they can’t see past their own campfire.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

398. “That’s right. You seize that woman, Cletus. You make her yours. And then after,” still grinning, Duane dropped his hand on my shoulder and gave me a little shake, “you give that woman your sausage.”

— Penny Reid

399. “I know how birth control works, big brother, and – spoiler alert – putting a wrapper on the banana is ninety-nine percent effective.”

— Penny Reid

400. “His response filled me with glee. It was as if a unicorn had appeared beneath a double rainbow and started tap dancing.”

— Penny Reid