Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I love them, and I hate them. But that’s family, I guess.”

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452. “Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something. That night, singing that, just reaffirmed that I wanted to put out an album of my own songs.”

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453. “I kiss him. I kiss him again. He’s so cute. And he’s so handsome. And he’s so smart. And funny. And charming. I don’t know how I stopped seeing all of that.”

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454. “Relationships aren’t neat and clean. They’re ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them.”

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

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457. “Luckily, I did not need to be pretty. My body was built to wage war.”

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458. “That’s when I started to take a liking to Celia St. James.”

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459. “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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460. “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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461. “We are tied to each other. We can hate and love, miss and loathe each other all within the same breath. We can never want to see each other again while never wanting to let go.”

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462. “Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years,” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.”

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463. “So how can I condemn the fourteen-year-old girl who did whatever she could to get herself out of town? And how can I judge the eighteen-year-old who got herself out of that marriage once it was safe to do so?”

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464. “It just goes to show how alike failure and success can appear. Sometimes only you know the truth.”

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465. “I am overwhelmed with love for my mom right now. She always knows just what to do. When do you learn that in life? When do you learn what to do?”

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466. “When you’re older. You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small. OK? You promise me that?” He put out his hand, and I shook it, like we were making a business deal. I was six. By the time I was.”

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467. “We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.”

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468. “I know that I can do this without you. I’ve learned that this past year. But I just miss you right now. I just want you near me. You bring out the best in me. And I could use the best of me right now.”

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469. “Sure, we all fade after a while. We are human, full of flaws like anyone else. But we are the chosen ones because we are extraordinary.”

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470. “At the age of 79, Hugo has long been an icon of glamour and elegance. She is known for a personal style both sensual and restrained, and many of Hugo’s most famous looks are considered touchstones of the fashion and Hollywood archives.”

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471. “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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472. “Accept accept accept. For so long, Nina had believed it was her greatest strength – that she could withstand, that she could endure, that she would accept it all and keep going. It was so foreign to her, the idea of declaring that something was unacceptable.”

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473. “We’re getting a marriage license and I will marry you right then and there in front of the judge. That doesn’t scare me. Diapers scare me. But spending my life with you doesn’t scare me. Not one bit.”

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474. “My Dearest Celia, Do you think lovers can ever be friends? I hate to think of the years we have left in this life wasted by continuing not to speak. Love, Evelyn.”

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475. “Splenda?′ she offers. I shake my head. I stopped drinking artificial sweeteners six months ago and I feel entirely the same but I’m still convinced it’s for a good cause. ‘I’m off the sauce,’ I say.”

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476. “It scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it.”

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477. “If the rest of the world was silver, Daisy was gold.”

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478. “Alan Thomas was his new agent. Alan had been encouraging Don to leave Sunset Studios, to go freelance. A lot of actors were navigating their careers on their own. It was leading to big paychecks for big stars. And Don was getting antsy. He kept talking about making more for one picture than his parents had made their whole careers.”

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479. “I stood in my slip and looked at my brassy blond hair and my dark brown eyes and my straight, thick eyebrows. And I missed the woman who should have been my wife. I missed Celia.”

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480. “And no one was happy but everyone was kind of equally dissatisfied.”

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481. “That’s me. And no matter where we are, no matter what time of day it is, the world is dark and we are two blinking lights. Flashing at the same time. Neither one of us flashing alone.”

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482. “But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you, knowing you’re doing a little something in your community.”

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483. “People say that life keeps moving, but they don’t mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you.”

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484. “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.”

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485. “You’re an underdog for so long and then one day you’re not. And when you start to feel real success, when you start to live large and all that, you have to stop and ask yourself if you think you really deserve it.”

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486. “It was not easy being a parent. It was not easy raising your four children on your own. But what made June the most frustrated at her husband – her twice ex-husband – was that she had no one to swoon over her children with.”

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487. “I closed my eyes and tried to breathe. When I opened them, I couldn’t look at my father. I looked out the window and watched as, across the street, a woman came out of her house and got her mail. I wondered if she was having a terrible day too. Or maybe her life looked nothing like mine. Maybe she lived free from all this pressure, this sense that she lived or died by how good she was at something. Was she burdened by the need to win everything she did? Or did she live for nothing?”

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488. “I’m so proud of you, darling.”

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489. “Simply gone. Irrevocably and forever.”

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490. “That love has shown through everything you’ve said and done. Unconditional love is the freedom to follow your heart and still have a home.”

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491. “I’m absolutely positive that I need you more than I’ve ever needed another living soul.”

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492. “As we spoke more, he told me about a physician-assisted suicide support group he and his sister had joined, for those at the end of their lives and their loved ones. So many in the group were fighting for the right to die with dignity. Healthy eating wasn’t going to save his sister’s life, and neither of them wanted her to suffer any longer than she had to. I knew then that I wanted, very deeply, to give a voice to the people of that support group.”

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493. “It was such a sad love song. About wanting somebody you can’t have and knowing you’re going to want them anyway.”

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494. “People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”

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495. “I liked writing about real people. I liked finding evocative ways of interpreting the real world. I liked the idea of connecting people by sharing their stories.”

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496. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you the most romantic part of love is the beginning. The most romantic part is when you know it has to end.”

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497. “As I tell my mom I love her and hang up the phone, I feel proud of myself, smug even. I have no idea that in less than a week, Evelyn Hugo will finish her story, and I’ll find out what this has all been about, and I will hate her so much that I’ll be truly afraid I might kill her.”

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498. “You know what you want, and you go after it. I don’t think there is anyone in this town doubting that Evelyn Hugo is going to be the biggest star in Hollywood one of these days. And that’s not just because you are something to look at. It’s because you decided you wanted to be huge, and now you’re going to be. I want to be friends with a woman like that.”

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499. “She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I... well, I didn’t do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”

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500. “What did it take? To say exactly what you meant? To feel comfortable in the middle of causing discomfort? To not feel – so intrinsically as to be as vital to yourself as your blood – that it was your responsibility to make things smooth and pleasant for everyone?”

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