Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Evelyn looks at me with purpose. ‘Do you understand what I’m telling you? When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things.”

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52. “She was no wallflower. You just had to be paying attention to see it.”

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53. “Intimacy is impossible without trust. And we would have been idiots to trust one another.”

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54. “It was around that time that I started to believe that friendships could be written in the stars.”

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55. “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.”

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56. “Love and pride don’t mix.”

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57. “Thank you for helping me hold my head a bit higher at a time in which it has every reason to hang low.”

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58. “Just two bitches playing rock ’n’ roll.”

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59. “Every time you get out on that court, you must play a better tennis game than you played the time before. Did you play your best game of tennis today?” “No,” I said. “Next time, I want you to beat yourself. Every day you must beat the day before.”

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60. “I have to know my worth.”

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61. “I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me.”

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62. “What broken family – no matter how shattered be reunited? What child, no matter how lost or abandoned, does not ache to be loved?”

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63. “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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64. “The Chosen ones never know they are chosen. They think everyone gets a gold carpet rolled out for them.”

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65. “La gente piensa que la intimidad tiene que ver con el sexo. Pero tiene que ver con la verdad.”

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66. “My heart hurts when you hurt because you are my heart.”

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67. “And to anyone tempted to kiss the TV tonight, please don’t chip your tooth.”

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68. “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.”

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69. “They had taught her that family is found, that whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”

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70. “Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same. In that way that you’re only the same with a few other people. In that way that you don’t even feel like you have to say your own thoughts because you know the other person is already thinking them.”

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

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

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73. “There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”

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74. “I once read that charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.” And I can’t help but think of that now, when she’s holding my coffee for me.”

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75. “You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”

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76. “I love you so much, sweetheart. So, so much. And it’s in part because of things like that. You’re an idealist and a romantic, and you have a beautiful soul. And I wish the world was ready to be the way you see it. I wish that the rest of the people on earth with us were capable of living up to your expectations.”

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77. “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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78. “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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79. “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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80. “A little over two years,” I said. “Is that a long time or a short time?”

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

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83. “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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84. “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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85. “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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86. “We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”

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87. “I love you. I love you in a way that I never thought possible. I have spent so much of my life thinking that this type of love was a myth. And now here it is, so real I can touch it, and I finally understand what the Beatles were singing about all those years.”

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

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89. “That’s how my story ends. With the loss of everyone I have ever loved.”

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90. “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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91. “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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92. “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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93. “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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94. “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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95. “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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96. “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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97. “And anyway, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”

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98. “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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99. “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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100. “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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