Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “You don’t tie yourself to something unless you’re scared you might float away.”

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103. “The world respects people who think they should be running it.”

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104. “You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”

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105. “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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106. “Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”

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107. “Because you didn’t come here and tell me how much you miss me. Or how hard it has been to live without me. You said you didn’t want to give up. And look, I don’t want to give up, either. I don’t want to fail at this. But that’s not actually a great reason to stay together. We should have reasons why we don’t want to give up. It shouldn’t just be that we don’t want to give up.”

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108. “You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth.”

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109. “And anyway, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”

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110. “When someone’s presence gives you energy, when it riles up something in you – the way Daisy did for me – you can turn that energy into lust or love or hate. I felt most comfortable hating her.”

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111. “I said, “It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.” He said, “That’s a song, right there.”

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112. “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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113. “You know the key to impulsivity is believing you are invincible. No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”

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114. “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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115. “I have always known there is no mountain you cannot climb, one step at a time.”

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116. “I love you too much to let you live only for me.”

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117. “It’s us, our team, forever and always. And I will always root for us.”

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118. “You don’t have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.”

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119. “A gente pode lamentar algumas coisas sem necessariamente se arrepender delas.”

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120. “La gente dice que la vida siempre avanza, pero no mencionan que a veces se detiene, solo para ti.”

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121. “Maybe you owe your parents nothing, maybe you owe them everything.”

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122. “Protect your happiness at all costs.”

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123. “I don’t believe in soul mates anymore and I’m not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who’s suffering from the same stuff you are.”

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124. “I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror and could see, in no uncertain terms, that I was beautiful. But it didn’t mean anyone loved me.”

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125. “Brutal honesty. It’s OK to hurt me. It’s OK to hurt my feelings. It’s OK to embarrass me. As long as you do it from love. Nothing you could ever say out of love could hurt as much as it did to look into your eyes and see that you couldn’t stand me anymore.”

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126. “But Celia was the sort of beautiful that felt as if you could hold it in your hands, like if you played your cards right, you might just get to marry a girl like Celia St. James.”

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127. “You run toward a world that is moral and just, where the good guys win and the bad guys lose, where the pain you face is only in an effort to make you stronger, so that you can win that much bigger in the end. It would take me years to figure out that life doesn’t get easier simply because it gets more glamorous. But you couldn’t have told me that when I was fourteen.”

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128. “I have been married seven times, and never once has it felt half as right as this. I think that loving you has been the truest thing about me.”

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129. “All I cared about was that she kissed me back, that she took her hand off the doorknob and, instead, put it on my waist.”

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130. “My Dearest CeCe, Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping. All my love, Edward.”

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131. “Having lost the battle, I resolved to win the war.”

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132. “If there are all different types of soul mates,′ I told Harry one afternoon, when he two of us were sitting out on the patio with Connor, ’then you are mine.”

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133. “Don’t count yourself out this early. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet. That really stuck with me. That who I was wasn’t entirely already determined. That there was still hope for me.”

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134. “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. To find you and touch your skin and smell your breath and hear all your thoughts. But I don’t want to be meant for someone like you.”

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135. “Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”

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136. “My heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”

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137. “My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn’t gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it. I’ve never understood that, but I’m done fighting it. I’m here to be Frankie one day, maybe bigger than Frankie. To do big, important work that I am proud of. To leave a mark. And I’m nowhere near doing that yet.”

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138. “No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”

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139. “He’d convinced himself that his wanting me was my fault. And I believed him. Look what I do to these poor boys, I thought. And yet also, Here is my value, my power.”

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “She liked to ignore the fact that I had made love to men and enjoyed it. She liked to ignore it until the very moment she decided to be threatened by it. That seemed to be her pattern. I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me.”

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143. “Her dress is low-cut, revealing her still-ample cleavage, and it occurs to me that it is the very thing that made her that will be the thing to finally take her down.”

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144. “That’s what you do when you want something. You don’t look for reasons why it won’t work. You look for reasons why it will.”

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145. “I made it fifty-fifty. Which is 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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146. “I love you so much and I don’t understand why you don’t love me.” I said, “I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.” Which was true. I wasn’t really willing to be vulnerable with anybody at that point. I had felt too much vulnerability too young. I didn’t want to do it anymore.”

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147. “I’d rather survive it than never feel it.”

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148. “And taking pride in your beauty is a damning act. Because you allow yourself to believe that the only thing notable about yourself is something with a very short shelf life.”

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149. “For a brief moment, I wonder if I would have listened to him if he hadn’t died. Would I have clung to his every word so tightly if his advice had felt unlimited?”

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150. “Learn how to grab life by the balls, Dear. Don’t be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”

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