Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “I am very confused right now. In fact, I’m so confused that I’m confused about how confused I am.”

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2. “I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”

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3. “Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be. We were meant to have been.” I.”

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4. “I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”

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5. “You are the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thought I have as I go to bed.”

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6. “Silence is your best friend.”

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7. “You don’t look for reasons why it won’t work. You look for reasons why it will.”

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8. “If you come to me and ask me for advice, and then you don’t take my advice, and it blows up in your face exactly like I told you it would, what do you expect me to say?”

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9. “Having lost the battle, I resolved to win the war.”

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10. “Too much too soon makes it obvious you don’t know what you’re doing.”

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11. “Every match you play, you are one match closer to becoming the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen. You were not born that person. You were born to become that person.”

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12. “Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does.”

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13. “That love makes you do crazy things, that sometimes you have to do things that seem wrong from the outside but you know are right.”

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14. “Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock. No matter how good you feel right now, you know it’s time to go.”

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15. “You are my one true love. I don’t even think I’m capable of loving anyone else.”

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16. “All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be truly mine. But you’ve never been mine. Not really. I’ve always had to settle for one piece of you. While the world gets the other half. I don’t blame you. It doesn’t make me stop loving you. But I can’t do it. I can’t do it, Evelyn. I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time.”

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17. “Cuando te dan una oportunidad de cambiar tu vida, debes estar dispuesta a hacer lo que sea con tal de lograrlo.”

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18. “We are lying in bed. We are naked. We are tangled in sheets, covered in sweat. We lie in each other’s arms and I am reminded of all of the other times we lay next to each other, catching our breath side by side, limbs intertwined.”

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19. “When you lose someone you love, it’s hard to imagine that you’ll ever feel better. That, one day, you’ll manage to be in a good mood simply because the weather is nice or the barista at the coffee shop on the corner remembered your order. But it does happen. If you’re patient and you work at it.”

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20. “What’s that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there’s a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part.”

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21. “Must be nice. To be able to be weak. I wouldn’t know.”

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22. “The future is so incredibly unpredictable that trying to plan for It is like studying for a test you’ll never take.”

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23. “When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.”

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24. “What’s the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.”

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26. “Smash the patriarchy, sweetheart.”

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27. “And I kept looking to everybody, thinking “Somebody get me out of this mess. I’m flailing out of here.” And I started to get angry.”

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28. “You start to understand that grief is chronic. That it’s more about remission and relapse than it is about a cure.”

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29. “When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”

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30. “I’m okay with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly... I have compassion for myself. I trust myself. I don’t regret it. Because I know I had my reasons, and I did the best I could with every thought and feeling that led up to it.”

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31. “Me and you, true blue.”

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32. “It all hurts so bad and feels so good that I’d swear my heart is bleeding.”

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33. “So when he dumped me- because he was bored with me, because he found someone else more exiting- I felt both a deep relief and a very real sense of failure.”

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34. “I can’t pretend things are OK until they’re actually OK.”

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35. “My life may not be perfect, but at least I can finally say it belongs to me.”

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36. “Aunque supongo que de eso trata precisamente el amor entre dos personas: que no puedes recrearlo. Cada vez que amas a alguien, cada persona a la que quieres, la quieres de forma distinta. Eres otra persona en cada amor.”

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37. “Having lost the battle, I resolved to win the war. So the next time I saw Ari Sullivan at the studio dining hall, I dropped my purse in front of him and “accidentally” gave him an eyeful as I bent down to pick it up. He made eye contact with me, and then I walked away, as if I wanted nothing from him, as if I had no idea who he was.”

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38. “But that’s a luxury. You can do that when you’re rich and famous. You can decide that wealth and renown are worthless when you have them.”

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39. “You lack nothing at all. I hope you see that.”

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40. “But sometimes you need to go get coffee more than you actually need coffee.”

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41. “Everything that is possible happens.”

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42. “Love and pride don’t mix.”

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43. “Thank you for helping me hold my head a bit higher at a time in which it has every reason to hang low.”

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44. “Intimacy is impossible without trust. And we would have been idiots to trust one another.”

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45. “She was no wallflower. You just had to be paying attention to see it.”

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46. “It was around that time that I started to believe that friendships could be written in the stars.”

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47. “It is comforting when you share your pain with someone, and they say, “I can’t even begin to understand how difficult that must be.” But it is better when they can say, “I understand completely.”

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48. “Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you’re used to being full of joy. But it’s not so bad when you’re used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end.”

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49. “Evelyn looks at me with purpose. ‘Do you understand what I’m telling you? When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.”

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50. “Every time you get out on that court, you must play a better tennis game than you played the time before. Did you play your best game of tennis today?” “No,” I said. “Next time, I want you to beat yourself. Every day you must beat the day before.”

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