Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

102. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

103. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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105. “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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106. “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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107. “I had lost her. My love. My Celia. My soul mate. The woman whose love I’d spent my life earning. Simply gone. Irrevocably and forever.”

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108. “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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109. “Intimacy is about truth.”

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “Be wary of men with something to prove.”

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

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

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116. “Handsome men that tell you what you want to hear are almost always liars.”

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117. “I DON’T WANT TO DO this,” Celia said. She was wearing a tailored black dress with a deep-V neckline. It was the kind of dress I could never wear out of the house or I’d be picked up on a prostitution charge.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “It breaks my heart to be loved like this, to be loved so purely that I’m capable of breaking a heart.”

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121. “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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122. “I’d give it all up, you know. All of it. The money and the jobs and the fame. I’d give it all up just to be with you, just to be normal with you.”

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123. “First, you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it. You tried. You were told no. Get over it.” “And the second thing?” “When you use people, be good at it.”

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124. “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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125. “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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126. “I once thought that grief was chronic, that all you could do was appreciate the good days and take them along with the bad. And then I started to think that maybe the good days aren’t just days; maybe the good days can be good weeks, good months, good years. Now I wonder if grief isn’t something like a shell. You wear it for a long time and then one day you realize you’ve outgrown it. So you put it down.”

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

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128. “I don’t feel regret for the things I’ve done – at least, not the things you might expect – despite how hard they may have been or how repugnant they may seem in the cold light of day.”

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129. “I switched to English, not wanting to speak Spanish anymore, not liking how strange it sounded coming out of my own mouth. “I’m Cuban,” I said to her. “I’ve spoken Spanish my entire life.” That wasn’t true, though. I hadn’t spoken it in years.”

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130. “Your love life should bring you love. If it doesn’t, no matter how hard you try, if you are honest and fair and good, and you decide it’s over and you need to go find love somewhere else, then... what more can the world ask of you?”

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131. “Talent like Daisy’s is wasted on people like Daisy.”

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132. “It’s as if a gorgeous, delicate bird has just flown to me and sat directly on my shoulder, and if I don’t make the exact right move, it might fly away.”

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133. “I’m bisexual. Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”

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134. “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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135. “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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136. “If you come to me and ask me for advice, and then you don’t take my advice, and it blows up in your face exactly like I told you it would, what do you expect me to say?”

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137. “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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138. “And if I’m being honest, there is something very inspiring about having a black woman running things. As a biracial woman myself – light brown skin and dark brown eyes courtesy of my black father, an abundance of face freckles courtesy of my white mother – Frankie makes me feel more sure that I can one day run things, too.”

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

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140. “That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”

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141. “Life is long and full of an infinite number of decisions. I have to think that the small ones don’t matter, that I’ll end up where I need to end up no matter what I do.”

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142. “I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.”

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143. “Too much too soon makes it obvious you don’t know what you’re doing.”

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144. “El mundo respeta a las personas que se creen capaces de gobernarlo.”

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145. “We don’t need any government documents or witnesses or religious approval. It doesn’t matter that I’m already legally married, because we both know that when I was marrying Robert, I was doing it to be with you. We don’t need anybody else’s rules. We just need each other.”

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

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147. “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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148. “You imagine a world where the two of you can go out to dinner together on a Saturday night and no one thinks twice about it. It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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149. “No one is completely good or completely bad.”

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

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