Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

452. “I really didn’t think this was going to happen. I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don’t happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.”

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453. “When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all.”

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454. “You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”

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455. “No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise. So you can’t go around assessing love by whether or not the sun rises. The sun doesn’t care about love. It just cares about rising.”

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456. “You can’t put it in your heart if it’s not there. And you can’t pull it out of your heart if it is.”

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457. “It was a big lesson for me when I was young – being given things versus earning them. I was so used to being given things that I didn’t know how important it is for your soul to earn them.”

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

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459. “I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war.”

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460. “The finalists were Andrew Thomas and Jadran Petrovich, neither one of whom would set a record by winning. We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”

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461. “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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462. “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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463. “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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464. “Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else.”

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

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

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468. “But knowing you’re good can only take you so far. At some point, you need someone else to see it, too. Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.”

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469. “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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470. “And then I keep running. It quiets the voices in my head. It calms my nerves. It forces me to think of no one, nothing, but the sound of my breath, the banging of my heart inside my chest, and the fact that I must keep going.”

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471. “The combination of such a powerful woman and such a small and humble gesture is enchanting, to be sure.”

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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. “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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474. “I keep thinking, I don’t cry on the court. I don’t cry on the court. But then I think, 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, I think. Just because you want to. And so, for the first time in decades, I stand in front of a roaring crowd and cry.”

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475. “I think as long as you’re happy and you’re doing something good with your life, it really doesn’t matter whether you went out and found the perfect thing or you chose what you knew you could make work for you.”

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476. “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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477. “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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478. “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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479. “If there are an infinite number of universes, I don’t know how I got so lucky as to end up in this one. Maybe there are other lives for me out there, but I can’t imagine being as happy in any of them as I am right now, today. I have to think that while I may exist in other universes, none is as good as this.”

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480. “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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481. “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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482. “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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483. “We’re home,′ I said. This wasn’t my home. We’d never lived here together before. But she knew what I meant. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘We’re home.”

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484. “Harry was one of the only men on the lot who didn’t stare directly at my chest. It actually bothered me, as if I’d been doing something wrong to not get his attention. It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”

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485. “Do you ever feel like everyone is always telling you who you are?“... “Like, people are acting as if they know better than you what you’re good at or who you are supposed to be?”

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

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487. “He was sober, he put his kids first, he would and did do anything for his family. He was a good man. I guess I’m saying... if you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption.”

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488. “Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people. Warren: That was around the time Billy’s drinking seemed like it was getting a little over the edge.”

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489. “She did not think of future or past, but only present. How can I stay, how can I hold on, how can I balance? Better. Longer. With more ease.”

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490. “Some men’s childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”

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491. “It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”

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492. “Harry died an hour later. After he was gone, I had the devastating luxury of panic.”

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493. “Because that is truly all I want in this world. I want to try to do something myself, knowing that when I have nothing left, someone will take me the rest of the way.”

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494. “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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495. “It felt like water in the desert.”

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496. “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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497. “I was fishing for information that might break my heart. A flaw of the human condition.”

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

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499. “You thought she’d come back to you,” I say. “I knew she’d come back to me,” Evelyn says. “And she knew it, too. We both knew our time wasn’t over.”

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500. “Too much self-sufficiency was sort of mean to the people who loved you.”

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