Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “He was so silly. So I said, “Duane, you are so silly.”

— Penny Reid

352. “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.”

— Penny Reid

353. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

356. “I was still tired, and this day had started out on a bizarre note and was circling the drain of strange.”

— Penny Reid

357. “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

358. “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.”

— Penny Reid

359. “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

360. “I was looking at my past self through the one-way interrogation window of my current self, and it caused me to experience the strange sadness that accompanies helplessness. If only I could have told teenage Elizabeth that none of it actually mattered. It all seemed to matter so much at the time.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

362. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

365. “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

366. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— 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. “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

372. “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

373. “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

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

— Penny Reid

375. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

381. “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

382. “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

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

— Penny Reid

384. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

— Penny Reid

388. “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.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

392. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

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

— Penny Reid

397. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid