Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I slept with Mick because I wanted to protect our careers, mine and hers. And that was more important to me than the sanctity of our relationship. And I slept with Harry because I wanted a baby, and I thought people would get suspicious if we adopted. Because I was afraid to draw attention to the sexlessness of our marriage. And I chose that over the sanctity of our relationship.”

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452. “I once thought grief was chronic, that all you could do was appreciate the good days and take them along with the bad. And then I started to think that maybe the good days aren’t just days; maybe the good days can be good weeks, good months, good years.”

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453. “When you’re older. You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”

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454. “WARREN: Chuck was real cool. He would cut right to the heart of something. He sort of looked like he’d never had an interesting thought in his life. But he could surprise you. He turned me on to Status Quo. I still listen to them.”

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455. “This isn’t what thirty is supposed to look like. It’s not what thirty is supposed to feel like. By thirty, you’re supposed to have things figured out, aren’t you? You’re not supposed to be questioning everything you’ve built your life on.”

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456. “Mucha gente puede lograr cosas solo por estar en el lugar indicado en el momento indicado.”

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457. “Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.”

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458. “How someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”

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459. “Because I wasn’t allowed to be applauded for it. It had an X rating. It was responsible for letters to the editor at nearly every paper in the country. It was too scandalous, too explicit. It got people excited, and when they felt that way, they had to blame someone, and they blamed me. What else were they going to do? Blame the French director? The French are like that. And they weren’t going to blame the newly redeemed Don Adler.”

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460. “I’d kill for a chest like that and full lips like yours. You make people think of undressing you just by showing up in a room fully clothed.”

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461. “I feel like I spent my entire life loving her.”

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462. “Me and you. We will rule this town.” We were married for two months before he started hitting me.”

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463. “I’m so proud of you, darling.”

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464. “Admittedly, I have not spoken to my mom in weeks. She lives thirty minutes away, but it’s very easy to avoid talking to someone if you never answer the phone.”

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465. “People were just starting to talk about the idea of bisexuality, but I’m not sure I even understood that the word referred to me then. I wasn’t interested in finding a label for what I already knew. I loved men. I loved Celia. I was OK with that.”

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466. “Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place.”

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467. “I’m Evelyn.” She reaches out and takes my hand, shaking it. It strikes me as a unique form of power to say your own name when you know that everyone in the room, everyone in the world, already knows it.”

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468. “One small thing my dad said to me on a cold day in Vancouver has essentially been the basis of my entire life’s trajectory.”

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469. “I dress how I want to dress. I wear what I feel comfortable in. How other people feel about it is not my problem.”

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470. “We just really liked each other. It was almost as if when I met him, I met this other side of myself. Someone who understands me and made me feel safe. It wasn’t just passionate really. We just knew we could be happy together.”

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471. “And I got the impression that while she loved my baby girl, babysitting wasn’t exactly her idea of a good time.”

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472. “Camila Dunne, now six months pregnant, returned with Julia to Los Angeles.”

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473. “Sometimes I think the difference between an actress and a star is that the star feels comfortable being the very thing the world wants her to be. And I felt comfortable appearing both innocent and suggestive.”

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474. “She’s a lesbian, Evelyn.” Until that point, the sounds of the party going on around us had been muted but still distinct. But the minute Ruby said what she said, the minute I heard the word lesbian, my blood started beating so fast that my pulse was all I could hear. I was not paying attention to what was flying out of Ruby’s mouth. I could only catch certain words, like girl and dyke and twisted.”

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475. “I insist that you be ruthless in your negotiating, Monique. Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”

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476. “There is other love out there for me. But it’s different. It isn’t this. It isn’t this exact love. It’s better and it’s worse. But I guess that’s sort of the point of love between two people – you can’t re-create it. Every time you love, everyone you love, the love is different. You’re different in it.”

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477. “You don’t need to find the perfect thing all the time. Just find one that works, and go with it.”

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478. “It’s on the house,” he said, which I thought was the dumbest thing, because if there is anyone that should be getting free food, it isn’t rich people.”

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479. “We were born with magic in our hearts.”

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480. “But nothing could prepare me for the pain of watching my child suffer. I held her when she puked from the chemo. I wrapped her in blankets when she was so cold she was crying. I kissed her forehead like she was my baby again, because she was forever my baby.”

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481. “I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time.”

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482. “I love them, and I hate them. But that’s family, I guess.”

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483. “I remember him saying, in the dark, cramped stockroom with my back against a wooden crate, “You have this power over me.” He’d convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him.”

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484. “Looking at this picture, I am struck by how beautiful my parents were together. James and Angela. I know what it cost them to build a life, to have me. A white woman and a black man in the early ’80s, neither of their families being particularly thrilled with the arrangement. We moved around a lot before my father died, trying to find a neighborhood where my parents felt at ease, at home. My mother didn’t feel welcome in Baldwin Hills. My father didn’t feel comfortable in Brentwood.”

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485. “He’d convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him. Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power. So when he dumped me – because he was bored with me, because he’d found someone else more exciting – I felt both a deep relief and a very real sense of failure.”

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486. “I wanted Celia to have anything she wanted.”

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487. “You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”

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488. “Because, after all, they are my parents. And when you get to be old enough, it’s finally OK to admit that they often do know best.”

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489. “Maybe it’s a lie that you have to keep doing what you have always done. That you have to be able to draw a straight line from how you acted yesterday to how you’ll act tomorrow. You don’t have to be consistent. You can change. Just because you want to.”

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490. “They can’t make us go away just because they are done with us.”

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491. “He said, “This song isn’t meant to be pretty. Don’t sing it like it is”.”

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492. “I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn’t gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it. I’ve never understood that, but I’m done fighting it.”

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493. “I feel no pressure to stop crying. I feel no need to explain myself. 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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494. “But she would understand that it was one fire, in a long line of fires in Malibu since the dawn of time. It had brought destruction. It would also bring renewal, rising from the ashes. The story of fire.”

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495. “To you,” she said. “For being absolutely unstoppable.”

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496. “Rex was the kind of guy who was so beautiful it was nearly boring.”

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497. “Nobody deserves anything,” Evelyn says. “It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.”

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498. “That takes a crapload of confidence. And Daisy didn’t actually have confidence. She was always good. Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”

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499. “Maybe it doesn’t matter if you need someone during the everyday moments of your life. Maybe what matters is that when you need someone, they are the one you need. Maybe needing someone isn’t about not being able to do it without them. Maybe needing someone is about it being easier if they are by your side.”

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500. “Sometimes people do things because they are furious or because they are upset or because they are out for blood. And those things can hurt. But what hurts the most is when someone does something out of apathy. They don’t care about you the way they said they did back in college. They don’t care about you the way they promised to when you got married. They don’t care about you at all.”

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