Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “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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452. “The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise.”

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453. “Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I’ll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn’t be it.”

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454. “You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The family peace of loving plainly.”

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455. “There is something very striking about Frankie. I’m not sure that you’d say she was conventionally attractive – her features are severe, her eyes very wide apart – but she is nevertheless someone you can’t help but look at and admire.”

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456. “You’re asking me if I knew he was going to be unfaithful as if that’s a thing that you know or don’t know. Like it’s black and white. But it’s not. You suspect, then you sort of un-suspect. Then you suspect again. Then you tell yourself you’re crazy. Then you ask yourself whether fidelity is really something you value above all else.”

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457. “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.” I could make myself fit for him. He could make himself fit for me. But that’s not true love.”

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458. “But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you.”

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459. “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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460. “When you think of me, I hope it ruins rock ‘n’ roll.”

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461. “Women don’t need to be thin to be valuable.”

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462. “I wanted out of my apartment, away from my father’s stale tequila breath and heavy hand. I wanted someone to take care of me. I wanted a nice house and money. I wanted to run, far away from my life. I wanted to go where my mom had promised me we’d end up someday.”

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463. “I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody.”

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464. “Everybody is dying darling. You are dying, I am dying, that guy over there is dying.”

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465. “All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be truly mine.”

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466. “Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”

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467. “That’s what I loved about her. She was no wallflower. You just had to be paying attention to see it.”

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468. “I’m just going to do my best and live under the assumption that if there are things in this life that we are supposed to do, if there are people in this world we are supposed to love, we’ll find them. In time. The future is so incredibly unpredictable that trying to plan for it is like studying for a test you’ll never take. I’m OK in this moment.”

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469. “She never called me Evelyn, only mija, which made me feel really special, like I was hers and she was mine.”

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470. “And yet that sense that you can feel your heart in your chest, that your body tells you it wants more, that you lose yourself in the scent, taste, and feel of another person – it was all the same.”

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471. “The memory of you hurt so much at first. The more I thought about your smile, your smell, the more it hurt. But I liked punishing myself. I liked the pain because the pain was you.”

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472. “And you will be okay, you know that? I know you probably don’t think it now, but I’m telling you, one day you’ll look back on this time and think, “Thank God it’s over, but I got through it.” I’m telling you.”

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473. “They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. Each time you recollect a memory, you change it, ever so slightly, shading it with new information, new feelings. Over the past years without him, my memories of Jesse have become a copy of a copy of a copy. Without meaning to, I have highlighted the parts of him that stood out to me, and the rest have faded away.”

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474. “Pete said it best. “Rock ’n’ roll is about getting it on with a girl for the first time. Not about making love to your wife.” And that was Pete saying that! He was as whipped as Billy.”

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

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476. “That was how it was with Celia. When you denied her what she wanted, when you hurt her, she made sure you hurt, too.”

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477. “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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478. “Sometimes I worry Jesse could lead me into hell and I’d follow along, naively saying things like, “Is it getting hot to you?” and believing him when he told me it was fine.”

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479. “Hugo has weathered her share of Hollywood scandals, not the least of which being her seven marriages, including her decades-long relationship with film producer Harry Cameron. The two Hollywood insiders shared a daughter, Connor Cameron, who is no doubt the influence for the auction.”

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480. “Eine Frau, die sich selbst an die erste Stelle setzt, finden die Leute nicht besonders sympathisch oder liebenswert.”

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481. “Que puedas vivir sin una persona no significa que quieras hacerlo.”

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482. “Lately, it feels like my whole life has a similar feeling to when you check the clock on a Saturday and realize it’s already half past four.”

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483. “Nina, her entire life, had been programmed to accept. Accept that your father left. Accept that your mother was gone. Accept that you must take care of your siblings. Accept that the world wants to lust after you. Accept Accept Accept.”

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

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485. “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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486. “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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487. “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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488. “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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489. “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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490. “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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491. “I love them, and I hate them. But that’s family, I guess.”

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492. “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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493. “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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494. “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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495. “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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496. “Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else.”

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

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499. “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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500. “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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