Top 500 Penny Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “I frowned at him and his sensible words. Stupid sensible words.”

— Penny Reid

402. “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

403. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

407. “You have to admit, hot guys have hot guy problems, which are like first world problems on steroids.”

— Penny Reid

408. “I felt calmer and more in control despite my questionable fashion non-choices.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

410. “Rank, rump-fed harpy.”

— Penny Reid

411. “So, if you can’t bring yourself to mourn his passing, maybe, instead, mourn the relationship you wished you’d had with your father, so you can let him go.”

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

414. “Sir McHotpants Von Grabby Hands.”

— Penny Reid

415. “Greg crossed to me, his gaze moving in a slow, cherishing path over my features. “If you knew how I saw you, how I think of you, your ego would become unmanageable.”

— Penny Reid

416. “Don’t change a thing. God, Jess. Don’t change a single thing. Be wild for me, be reckless. I love your kind of wild.”

— Penny Reid

417. “Greg was an indiscriminate food stealer.”

— Penny Reid

418. “Have you considered that there’s someone out there who might not consider these things about you crazy? That someone might take the time to understand your disorder, take the time to understand and therefore appreciate you?” I shook my head. “No.” “Is.”

— Penny Reid

419. “Being right and doing right and staying the narrow course means never knowing the fragile line between humility and humiliation, never knowing how difficult it is to ask for forgiveness, never understanding the pain of forgiveness withheld.”

— Penny Reid

420. “I didn’t want to be peed on.”

— Penny Reid

421. “Then, I reached for my sandwich and took a bite. It wasn’t the same as biting a person, but the chewing helped.”

— Penny Reid

422. “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

423. “Absence makes the heart suicidal.”

— Penny Reid

424. “I also came from a notable family – my mother was a US senator, my father was the dean of the college of medicine at UCLA, and my maternal grandfather was an astronaut.”

— Penny Reid

425. “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

426. “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

427. “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

428. “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

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

— Penny Reid

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

— Penny Reid

431. “No. I have plenty of reason. But without honor and goodness, reason isn’t worth much.”

— Penny Reid

432. “Women were more than the status of their hymen or their dress size.”

— Penny Reid

433. “I knew he wasn’t there to actually help me. He was there to help me out of the building.”

— Penny Reid

434. “You are so good, generous, with everyone. Especially with me. Please let me hold the tools for you while you work on your refrigerator.” I.”

— Penny Reid

435. “I liked labels; I liked putting people and things into categories. It helped me calibrate my expectations of people and relationships.”

— Penny Reid

436. “You know those French impressionists; all they did was fornicate, drink absinthe, and play dominoes.”

— Penny Reid

437. “I think men will always be arrested on some level by the idea of owning their spouse, of completely possessing the woman they love, of having her unquestioning trust and obedience and admiration. But most importantly, of actually being a man that deserves it all. And I think women – though they are loathe to admit it – fundamentally want to be possessed.”

— Penny Reid

438. “He wasn’t a robot needing reprogramming; he was a person. He was ultimately responsible for fixing himself, and only if he wanted to.”

— Penny Reid

439. “These socks scream, Ask me about my thirteen cats!”

— Penny Reid

440. “I shook my head, feeling like a natural disaster on mute.”

— Penny Reid

441. “He was so adept – so very, very gifted – at stoking my fire then leaving me with a giant lady hard-on. In fact, I suspected maybe this was his superpower.”

— Penny Reid

442. “People were, essentially, the secrets they kept.”

— Penny Reid

443. “Janie, you’re not the only one in this room who is freakish.” “No you’re not. You’re a falcon, and I’m an ostrich.”

— Penny Reid

444. “As usual – when we really kissed – I lost track of my surroundings, the operation of my limbs, and the functionality of my vocal chords. I may have started to climb him.”

— Penny Reid

445. “But revenge was a choice, protecting yourself is instinct.”

— Penny Reid

446. “When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.”

— Penny Reid

447. “Beau could talk a policeman into committing armed robbery.”

— Penny Reid

448. “Apparently, hope is for hipsters because hope failed me.”

— Penny Reid

449. “I suppose it’s part of why we seek out a partner. Why we’re driven to build a new family, pursue new friendships. There’s freedom in being a blank canvas to another person and having some control over what is painted on that canvas.”

— Penny Reid

450. “It’s ok to be gifted at using people if you’re using them for good.”

— Penny Reid