Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

354. “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

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

— Penny Reid

356. “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

357. “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

358. “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

359. “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

360. “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

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

— Penny Reid

362. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

368. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

376. “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

377. “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

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

— Penny Reid

379. “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

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

— Penny Reid

381. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

386. “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

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

— Penny Reid

388. “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

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

— Penny Reid

390. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

395. “I didn’t want to be peed on.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

397. “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

398. “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

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

— Penny Reid

400. “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