Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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4. “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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5. “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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6. “You are my one true love. I don’t even think I’m capable of loving anyone else.”

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

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

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9. “Smash the patriarchy, sweetheart.”

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10. “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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11. “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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12. “What’s the rush, honey? We have all the time in the world.”

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13. “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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14. “Me and you, true blue.”

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

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

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19. “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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20. “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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21. “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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22. “But sometimes you need to go get coffee more than you actually need coffee.”

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

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

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27. “Love and pride don’t mix.”

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28. “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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29. “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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30. “My life may not be perfect, but at least I can finally say it belongs to me.”

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31. “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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32. “Just two bitches playing rock ’n’ roll.”

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

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34. “I have to know my worth.”

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35. “I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me.”

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36. “No,” she told me. “Because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyway, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”

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37. “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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38. “What broken family – no matter how shattered be reunited? What child, no matter how lost or abandoned, does not ache to be loved?”

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39. “The Chosen ones never know they are chosen. They think everyone gets a gold carpet rolled out for them.”

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40. “And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don’t chip your tooth.”

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41. “La gente piensa que la intimidad tiene que ver con el sexo. Pero tiene que ver con la verdad.”

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42. “They had taught her that family is found, that whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”

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43. “You are the very definition of a breath of fresh air.”

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44. “We loved each other and we lost each other. And now, even though we still love each other, the pieces don’t fit like they used to.”

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45. “Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same. In that way that you’re only the same with a few other people. In that way that you don’t even feel like you have to say your own thoughts because you know the other person is already thinking them.”

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46. “You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”

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47. “I love you so much, sweetheart. So, so much. And it’s in part because of things like that. You’re an idealist and a romantic, and you have a beautiful soul. And I wish the world was ready to be the way you see it. I wish that the rest of the people on earth with us were capable of living up to your expectations.”

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48. “There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”

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49. “I once read that charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.” And I can’t help but think of that now, when she’s holding my coffee for me.”

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50. “My heart hurts when you hurt because you are my heart.”

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