Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “It’s one thing to play coy with them, I suppose. But what I have to do is stop playing coy with myself.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

452. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

453. “There should be a way to undo your fuckups. Not just redeem yourself for them but actually undo them, make them so that they never happened.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

454. “There’s only so long you can live your life while it’s being dictated to you by somebody else, you understand? And I don’t care how much money is in it for me, I’m not somebody’s lackey. I’m not some indentured servant. I’m a person.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

455. “Let me sum up that early tour for you: I was getting laid, Graham was getting high, Eddie was getting drunk, Karen was getting fed up, Pete was getting on the phone to his girl back home, and Billy was all five, at once.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

456. “Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not.”

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457. “Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

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458. “I don’t want to let you love me if you don’t think you can lose me again. One last time.”

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459. “I’m the one that got stuck with the big butt.”

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

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461. “I’m glad you have no one left. I’m glad there’s no one alive to love you.”

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462. “Me gustas impura, brava y temible.”

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463. “But instead of spending the next hour and forty-five minutes nursing my wounds, I spent the time holding back a smile. Celia was going to win an Oscar. It was as plain as the nose on her face. And it didn’t make me jealous. It made me happy. When Beth died, I cried. And then I reached over Robert’s and Don’s laps and squeezed her hand. Don rolled his eyes at me. And I thought, He’s going to find an excuse to hit me later. But it will be for this.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

464. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

465. “Nina, you’re right. I’m a weak – ” “Must be nice. To be able to be weak. I wouldn’t know.”

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466. “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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467. “Nonsense’ Rex said. ‘I am dirty. Through and through.”

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468. “Nobody deserves anything. It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves.”

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469. “Evelyn shakes her head. “Heartbreak is loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”

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470. “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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471. “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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472. “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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473. “Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I loved about the world, Daisy loved about the world. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same.”

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474. “People act like you can never forget your own name, but if you’re not paying attention, you can veer so incredibly far away from everything you know about yourself to the point where you stop recognizing what they call you.”

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475. “Being wanted meant having to satisfy. At least, that was my view of it back then.– Evelyn Hugo.”

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476. “The chemistry between their voices – his vulnerability, her fragility – it grabs you and doesn’t let you go. With his voice deep and smooth, and her voice higher and raspier, they somehow still meld together effortlessly, like two voices that have been singing together for ages. They created a deeply heartfelt call and response – a story of this romantic and idealized future that may never come to pass.”

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477. “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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478. “The downside of perfectionism is that you are so used to getting it right, you completely collapse when you get it wrong.”

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479. “I am so grateful, right now, for every match and every win and every loss and every lesson that I have behind me. It feels so good, right now, to be thirty-seven years old. To have figured at least some things out. To know the ground underneath my feet.”

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480. “It felt like water in the desert.”

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481. “It was then that I knew that the only time anyone would know anything true about my life was when I told them directly.”

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482. “I wanted to give her a lot of things. I wanted what I had be hers. I wondered if this was what it felt like to love someone.”

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483. “I know what it feels like to not want your father to look at you too closely, lest he decides he hates you and hits you or decides he loves you a little too much. And I know what it feels like to see your future ahead of you – the husband who’s really just a new version of your father, surrendering to him in bed when it’s the last thing you want to do, making only biscuits and canned corn for dinner because you don’t have money for rent.”

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484. “I knew it was imperative that I hide, and yet I did not believe I should have to. But accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking that it is just.”

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485. “Passion never mattered very much to me. But that type of intimacy that we had? That was what I cherished.”

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486. “I told her every single day that her life had been the world’s greatest gift to me, that I believed I was put on earth not to make movies or wear emerald-green gowns and wave at crowds but to be her mother.”

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

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488. “It hurts to care about someone more than they care about themselves.”

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489. “Evelyn uses the saying “all’s well that ends well” as part of her explanation for not regretting her actions. Do you think Evelyn truly believes this?”

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490. “And yet, we cannot deny that the tide has turned. Carrie Soto is the past. Nicki Chan is the future. The Queen is dead, long live the Queen.”

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491. “And I’ve been really sad, Nina added. That I... that I meant so little to someone who had made me believe I meant so much.”

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492. “Everybody wants somebody to hold up the right mirror.”

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493. “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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494. “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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495. “You are not competing with her. You are competing with yourself.”

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496. “Unconditional love is the freedom to follow your heart and still have a home.”

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497. “I actively resented him for growing more attractive as he aged, while I had to watch my.”

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498. “How well can you really love someone if you haven’t seen him through an August or an autumn?”

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

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

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