Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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153. “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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154. “Family histories repeat, Nina thought. For a moment, she wondered if it was pointless to try to escape it. Maybe our parents’ lives are imprinted within us, maybe the only fate there is is the temptation of reliving their mistakes. Maybe, try as we might, we will never be able to outrun the blood that runs through our veins.”

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155. “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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156. “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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157. “Whatever happens happens. I’m not going anywhere. We are in this together and we will be fine.”

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

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

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160. “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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161. “Two men sleeping together. Married to two women sleeping together. We were four beards.”

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162. “It cost so much, caring. I didn’t have any currency to spend on it.”

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163. “But loving somebody isn’t perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.”

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164. “I wish I was the sort of person who doesn’t need her pain to be heard. I want to be the type of person who can keep it to herself and spare the feelings of others. But I’m not that person. My anger has to take flight. It has to be set free and allowed to bounce off the walls and into the ears of the person it could hurt the most.”

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165. “If you are heartbroken right now, then I feel for you deeply,” Evelyn says. “That I have the utmost respect for. That’s the sort of thing that can split a person in two. But I wasn’t heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things.” When Evelyn says this, I stop my pen in place. I look up at her. And I wonder why I needed Evelyn to tell me that. I wonder why that sort of distinction has never crossed my mind before.”

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166. “Nina didn’t hate Carrie Soto for stealing her husband because husbands can’t be stolen. Carrie Soto wasn’t a thief; Brandon Randall was a traitor.”

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167. “One of the great injustices of this rigged world we live in is that women are considered to be depleting with age and men are somehow deepening.”

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168. “I love you,” she said. “I love you, too,” I whispered into her ear. “I love you more than anything else in the entire world.” “It’s not wrong,” Celia said. “It shouldn’t be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?” “It’s not wrong, sweetheart. It’s not,” I said. “They’re wrong.”

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169. “Anyway, about the sandbar. It reminded me of you because you are my sandbar. I was lost at sea, and then you showed up. My dry land.”

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170. “Silence is your best friend.”

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171. “I suspected the problem was that I was always the winner. But I could not for the life of me understand why that made people want to play with me less instead of more.”

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172. “My ambition has long felt oppressive. It is not a joy – it is a master that I must answer to, a smoke that descends into my life, making it hard to breathe. It is only my discipline, my willingness to push myself harder, that has been my way through.”

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173. “I miss my dad. I miss him all the time. But it’s moments like this, when I’m on the precipice of finally doing work that might just expand my heart, that I wish I could at least send him a letter, telling him what I’m doing. And I wish that he could send me one back.”

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174. “Twenty-five but she felt forty. Married but she was alone. Childless and yet, hadn’t she raised children?”

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175. “Because our whole is greater than the sum of our parts.”

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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men.”

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180. “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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181. “Accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking it is just.”

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182. “The devastating luxury of panic overtook me.”

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183. “The sun rises the next day after mothers lose their babies, after men lose their wives, after countries lose wars. The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise. So you can’t go around assessing love by whether or not the sun rises. The sun doesn’t care about love. It just cares about rising.”

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184. “Knowing you did the right thing doesn’t mean you’re happy about it.”

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185. “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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186. “If there are all different types of soulmates... then you are one of mine.”

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187. “There was something vaguely midwestern about him, not so much in how he looked but in the way he approached people, with kindness first, then strength.”

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188. “Actually, it wasn’t that fun, it was just that I was happy. Everything seems fun when you’re happy.”

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

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191. “One small thing my dad said to me on a cold day in Vancouver has essentially been the basis of my entire life’s trajectory. 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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192. “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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193. “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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194. “What I actually remember most about her is the emptiness she left behind. There was this sense, within the house, that there used to be someone else here. But now it was just my father and me.”

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195. “I know how it feels for people to assume things about you, to prescribe a label for you based on how you appear to them. I have spent my life trying to explain to people that while I look black, I am biracial. I have spent my life knowing the importance of allowing people to tell you who they are instead of reducing them to labels.”

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196. “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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197. “Instead, Nina Riva stood on the edge of the cliff she’d never wanted, and looked out onto the water she wished was closer, and for the first time in her quiet life, screamed into the wind.”

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

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199. “You don’t spend years pining away for one voice not to notice it when it finally appears.”

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200. “When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”

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