Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I love you so much that when I sometimes get a look at all the crazy fan mail you get, I think, well, sure, that makes sense. I want to collect her eyelashes too.”

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452. “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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453. “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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454. “When it hurts so bad you don’t think you can stand it, I say, squeeze my hand.”

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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. “My older self knows that you must stop – in the middle of the chaos – to take in the world around you. To breathe in deeply, smell the sunscreen and the rubber of the ball, let the breeze blow across your neck, feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. In this respect, I love the way the world has aged me.”

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457. “I’m OK with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly. And also, I have compassion for myself. I trust myself.”

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458. “All right,” I say. “Show me the real you, then. And I’ll make sure the world understands.”

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

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460. “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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461. “There’s a huge hole in my heart where you used to be. When you were alive, I used to sometimes lie awake at night and listen to you snore, and I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have found you.”

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462. “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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463. “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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464. “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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465. “Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself. And he saw me the way I wanted to be seen. There is nothing more powerful than that.”

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

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

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

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

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471. “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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472. “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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473. “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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474. “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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475. “It just goes to show how alike failure and success can appear. Sometimes only you know the truth.”

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476. “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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477. “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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478. “There are people who see a beautiful flower and rush over to pick it. They want to hold it in their hands, they want to own it. They want the flower’s beauty to be theirs, to be within their possession, their control.”

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479. “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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480. “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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481. “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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482. “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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483. “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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484. “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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485. “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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486. “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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487. “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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488. “If the rest of the world was silver, Daisy was gold.”

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489. “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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490. “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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491. “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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492. “People say that life keeps moving, but they don’t mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you.”

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493. “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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494. “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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495. “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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496. “I feel like I spent my entire life loving her.”

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497. “I’m so proud of you, darling.”

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498. “Simply gone. Irrevocably and forever.”

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499. “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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500. “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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