Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Please never forget that the sun sets and rises with your smile.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “Maybe you owe your parents nothing, maybe you owe them everything.”

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

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “Protect your happiness at all costs.”

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

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

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “Every morning when I wake up I forget for a fraction of a second that you are gone and I reach for you. All I ever find is the cold side of the bed. My eyes settle on the picture of us in Paris, on the bedside table, and I am overjoyed that even though the time was brief I loved you and you loved me.”

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122. “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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123. “You don’t tie yourself to something unless you’re scared you might float away.”

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124. “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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125. “When did I lose that? The delight of success? When did winning become something I needed in order to survive? Something I did not enjoy having, so much as panic without?”

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

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

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129. “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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130. “And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine. That you cannot be loved enough to be anyone’s.”

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131. “When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is “You’re safe with me” – that’s intimacy.”

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132. “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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133. “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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134. “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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135. “I love you too much to let you live only for me.”

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

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138. “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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139. “I feel no pressure to stop crying. I feel no need to explain myself. You don’t have to make yourself okay for a good mother. A good mother makes herself okay for you.”

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140. “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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141. “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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142. “Amar es perdonar, ser paciente, tener fe y, cada tanto, llevarte una buena hostia. Por eso es peligroso amar a la persona equivocada, amar a quien no lo merece. Tienes que estar con alguien que se merezca tu fe y tienes que ser merecedor de la fe de alguien.”

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143. “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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144. “We are talking about probably the first man in my life who really saw me, who ever really understood me, who had so much in common with me... and he still didn’t love me. When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don’t love you... I was burning.”

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145. “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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146. “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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147. “You are the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thought I have as I go to bed. I find it difficult to even kiss my husband now.”

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148. “And what does it mean that we have not spoken in a decade but I still hear your voice in my head every day?”

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

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

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