Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “Too much too soon makes it obvious you don’t know what you’re doing.”

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “And anyway, I think once people know the truth, they will be much more interested in my wife.”

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “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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113. “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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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. “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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116. “I have always known there is no mountain you cannot climb, one step at a time.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “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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129. “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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130. “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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131. “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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132. “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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133. “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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134. “Having lost the battle, I resolved to win the war.”

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135. “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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136. “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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137. “A gente pode lamentar algumas coisas sem necessariamente se arrepender delas.”

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

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139. “Protect your happiness at all costs.”

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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. “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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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. “That night, Celia and I slept nude, holding each other. We no longer pretended to touch by accident. And when i woke up in the morning with her hair in my face, I inhaled, loudly and proudly. Within those four walls, we were unashamed.”

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144. “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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145. “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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146. “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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147. “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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148. “I’d rather survive it than never feel it.”

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149. “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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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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