Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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5. “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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6. “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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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “Intimacy is impossible without trust. And we would have been idiots to trust one another.”

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11. “Just two bitches playing rock ’n’ roll.”

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

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13. “I have to know my worth.”

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

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

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

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

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19. “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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20. “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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21. “The Chosen ones never know they are chosen. They think everyone gets a gold carpet rolled out for them.”

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22. “Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”

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23. “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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24. “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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25. “That’s how my story ends. With the loss of everyone I have ever loved.”

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26. “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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27. “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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28. “You don’t have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you. And my mother has always been a good mother, a great mother.”

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

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31. “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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32. “Write a list of things you’ll regret I’d be on top smoking a cigarette Oh, we could be lovely If this could get ugly.”

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33. “Sylvie Rabineau, thank you for loving Stevie Nicks the way I do and for handling the chaos that was Daisy Jones with grace and joy.”

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34. “You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are until someone stands behind you and says: “it’s okay, you can fall down now, I’ll catch you.”

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35. “If she knew how often I was thinking about her, she wouldn’t feel lonely.”

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36. “That’s how my story ends. With the loss of everyone I have ever loved. With me, in a big, beautiful Upper East Side apartment, missing everyone who ever meant anything to me.”

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37. “I regret every second I didn’t spend with her. I regret every stupid thing I did that caused her an ounce of pain. I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, ‘I’m in love with Celia St. James!’ and let them crucify me for it. That’s what I should have done.”

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38. “A man hits you once and apologizes, and you think it will never happen again – Evelyn Hugo.”

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39. “I broke Celia’s heart because I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”

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40. “You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”

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41. “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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42. “I said, “It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.” He said, “That’s a song, right there.”

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

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44. “I think being yourself – your true, entire self – is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.”

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45. “I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life. I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you.”

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46. “Every morning when I wake up I forget for a fraction of a second that you are gone and I reach for you. All I ever find is the cold side of the bed. My eyes settle on the picture of us in Paris, on the bedside table, and I am overjoyed that even though the time was brief I loved you and you loved me.”

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47. “The world respects people who think they should be running it.”

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48. “Isn’t it nice when you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?”

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49. “We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”

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50. “You could be a nobody living in a cardboard box, and I’d still love you,” I said. I’d never said that before. I’d never meant it before. Celia smiled wide. “Me too. The cardboard box and all of it.”

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