Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Jethro’s sarcasm was cool whip on whipped cream – completely unnecessary.”

— Penny Reid

352. “Oh, gah! Right in the feels!”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

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

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

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

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359. “I once went on a date with a guy who chewed with his mouth open. It was like sitting across from a garbage disposal.”

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360. “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.”

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361. “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.”

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362. “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.”

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

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365. “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

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

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

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

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369. “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

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

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371. “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.”

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372. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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380. “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

381. “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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382. “No. I grew a beard because no one was around to teach us boys how to shave.” .”

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

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

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

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

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

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388. “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.”

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

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

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391. “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

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

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

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395. “Rank, rump-fed harpy.”

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

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

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399. “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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400. “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