Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “That’s how my story ends. With the loss of everyone I have ever loved.”

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52. “Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”

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53. “A man hits you once and apologizes, and you think it will never happen again – Evelyn Hugo.”

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54. “You don’t have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you. And my mother has always been a good mother, a great mother.”

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55. “If she knew how often I was thinking about her, she wouldn’t feel lonely.”

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56. “All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be truly mine. But you’ve never been mine. Not really. I’ve always had to settle for one piece of you. While the world gets the other half. I don’t blame you. It doesn’t make me stop loving you. But I can’t do it. I can’t do it, Evelyn. I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time.”

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57. “You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are until someone stands behind you and says: “it’s okay, you can fall down now, I’ll catch you.”

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58. “Cuando te dan una oportunidad de cambiar tu vida, debes estar dispuesta a hacer lo que sea con tal de lograrlo.”

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59. “Isn’t it nice when you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is?”

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60. “That’s how my story ends. With the loss of everyone I have ever loved. With me, in a big, beautiful Upper East Side apartment, missing everyone who ever meant anything to me.”

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61. “All that matters is that your heart is in the right place.”

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62. “The truth often lies, unclaimed, in the middle.”

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63. “I broke Celia’s heart because I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”

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64. “No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.”

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65. “Losing me again. I don’t want to let you love me if you don’t think you can lose me again. One last time.” “I can’t. Of course I can’t. But I want to anyway. I’m going to anyway. Yes,” I said finally. “I can survive it. I’d rather survive it than never feel it.”

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66. “A little over two years,” I said. “Is that a long time or a short time?”

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67. “We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”

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68. “Do you know how much a body can weigh when it falls into your arms, helpless? Multiply it by three. Nina carried it all. All of the weight, in her arms, on her back.”

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69. “Desconfie de homens que precisam muito provar alguma coisa.”

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70. “I regret every second I didn’t spend with her. I regret every stupid thing I did that caused her an ounce of pain. I should have chased her down the street the day she left me. I should have begged her to stay. I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, ‘I’m in love with Celia St. James!’ and let them crucify me for it. That’s what I should have done.”

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71. “I think being yourself – your true, entire self – is always going to feel like you’re swimming upstream.”

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72. “Write a list of things you’ll regret I’d be on top smoking a cigarette Oh, we could be lovely If this could get ugly.”

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73. “Be wary of men with something to prove”, “Never let anyone make you feel ordinary”, and “It is OK to grovel for something you really want.”

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74. “I should have apologized and sent roses and stood on top of the Hollywood sign and shouted, ‘I’m in love with Celia St. James!’ and let them crucify me for it.”

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75. “Daisy had no ass, no tits. A carpenter’s dream as they call ’em. Flat as a board, easy to nail.”

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76. “I said, “Doesn’t it bother you? That your husbands have become such a headline story, so often mentioned, that they have nearly eclipsed your work and yourself? That all anyone talks about when they talk about you are the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo?” And her answer was quintessential Evelyn. “No,” she told me. “Because they are just husbands. I am Evelyn Hugo. And anyway, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”

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77. “You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won’t instantly come to an end. You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray.”

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78. “When you lose someone you love, it’s hard to imagine that you’ll ever feel better. That, one day, you’ll manage to be in a good mood simply because the weather is nice or the barista at the coffee shop on the corner remembered your order. But it does happen. If you’re patient and you work at it.”

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79. “I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life. I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you.”

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80. “Whatever happens happens. I’m not going anywhere. We are in this together and we will be fine.”

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81. “Sylvie Rabineau, thank you for loving Stevie Nicks the way I do and for handling the chaos that was Daisy Jones with grace and joy.”

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82. “Please never forget that the sun sets and rises with your smile.”

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83. “You could be a nobody living in a cardboard box, and I’d still love you,” I said. I’d never said that before. I’d never meant it before. Celia smiled wide. “Me too. The cardboard box and all of it.”

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84. “Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by like a bus not meant for you. Or you can get ready. So I got ready.”

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85. “And I kept looking to everybody, thinking “Somebody get me out of this mess. I’m flailing out of here.” And I started to get angry.”

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86. “And maybe one day I’ll find someone I love the way Evelyn loved Celia. Or maybe I might just find someone I love the way my parents loved each other. Knowing to look for it, knowing there are all different types of great loves out there, is enough for me for now.”

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87. “Everyone sort of assumes that when faced with life-and-death situations, you will panic. But almost everyone who’s actually experienced something like that will tell you that panic is a luxury you cannot afford. In the moment, you act without thinking, doing all you can with the information you have.”

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88. “But no medium can capture what it is to be in someone’s presence, certainly not someone like her. Someone who makes you feel important simply because she’s choosing to look at you.”

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89. “Sometimes I worry I’ll never find a place to call home.”

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90. “You are perfect, even in your imperfection.”

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91. “My world is black and white, and you are Technicolor.”

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92. “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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93. “I was waiting for someone that would sweep me off my feet and would be swept up by me in equal parts.”

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94. “I think that loving you has been the truest thing about me.”

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95. “Often, I feel overwhelmed by this sinking feeling in my heart that I will never be enough.”

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96. “You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.” – James Grant, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.”

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97. “If you are intolerable, let me be the one to tolerate you,” I said, and then I kissed her and tasted the lemon juice on her lips.”

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98. “Don’t count yourself out this early, Daisy. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”

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99. “For the first time in a very long time, I felt like I had family. You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.” So I fell down. And Harry caught me.”

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100. “This is something that everyone should know about stars. We like to be told we are adored, and we want you to repeat yourself. Later in my life, people would always come up to me and say, “I’m sure you don’t want to hear me blabbering on about how great you are,” and I always say, as if I’m joking, “Oh, one more time won’t hurt.” But the truth is, praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even.”

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