Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “Often, I feel overwhelmed by this sinking feeling in my heart that I will never be enough.”

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104. “Do you know how much a body can weigh when it falls into your arms, helpless? Multiply it by three. Nina carried it all. All of the weight, in her arms, on her back.”

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

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

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108. “Sometimes I worry I’ll never find a place to call home.”

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

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

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111. “Write a list of things you’ll regret I’d be on top smoking a cigarette Oh, we could be lovely If this could get ugly.”

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112. “Protect your happiness at all costs.”

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113. “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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114. “Everyone sort of assumes that when faced with life-and-death situations, you will panic. But almost everyone who’s actually experienced something like that will tell you that panic is a luxury you cannot afford. In the moment, you act without thinking, doing all you can with the information you have.”

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

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

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “Please never forget that the sun sets and rises with your smile.”

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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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. “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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128. “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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129. “Don’t count yourself out this early, Daisy. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “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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133. “The world respects people who think they should be running it.”

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

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135. “She was always jealous of the men, worried she couldn’t compete. I was jealous of the women, worried I wouldn’t compare.”

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136. “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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137. “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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138. “My world is black and white, and you are Technicolor.”

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139. “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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140. “Our friendship had been a long-distance one since we went off to college. But I never met another woman who meant to me what she did. No one else could make me laugh like she could. So my oldest friend remained my best friend, despite however many miles kept us apart, and it was for that reason that I made her my maid of honor.”

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141. “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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142. “Muchos ven una flor hermosa y corren a cortarla. Quieren tenerla en la mano, poseerla. Quieren que la belleza de la flor sea suya, tenerla en su poder, bajo su control.”

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143. “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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144. “No one is completely good or completely bad.”

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145. “Letting people love you and care for you is part of how you love and care for them.”

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146. “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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147. “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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148. “Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there.”

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

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

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