Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I don’t want your pity and I don’t want your loyalty. I want you to be with me because you want to be with me.”

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

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

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154. “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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155. “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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156. “If there are all different types of soulmates... then you are one of mine.”

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”

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160. “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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161. “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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162. “She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men.”

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163. “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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164. “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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165. “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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166. “But knowing you’re good can only take you so far. At some point, you need someone else to see it, too. Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself. And Billy saw me the way I wanted to be seen. There is nothing more powerful than that. I really believe that. Everybody wants somebody to hold up the right mirror.”

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167. “Evelyn, you are not capable of giving it up. And you never will be. And it will be the tragedy of my life that I cannot love you enough to make you mine.”

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168. “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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169. “A gente pode lamentar algumas coisas sem necessariamente se arrepender delas.”

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

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171. “Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”

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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about 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. Of course, I realised all this when she left me. And I tried to fix it. But it was too late.”

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177. “You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you’ll never make them again.”

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178. “I wake up most mornings feeling refreshed and well rested, with an excitement about the day. And as long as you can say that, I think you’re doing OK.”

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179. “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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180. “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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181. “Celia St. James is going to ruin everything.”

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182. “Quando surge uma oportunidade para mudar sua vida, esteja pronta para fazer o que for preciso.”

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183. “Included in the sale will be the emerald-green Miranda La Conda.”

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184. “Nobody deserves anything. It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves.”

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185. “The tears that come out of me feel as if they were decades in the making. It feels as if some old version of me is leaking out, letting go, saying good-bye in the effort of making room for a new me. One that is stronger and somehow both more cynical about people and also more optimistic about my place in the world.”

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186. “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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187. “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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188. “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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189. “And she said, “A part of me wishes you wanted kids, because my kids make me so happy. But... I think in order to be happy like I’m happy, you need different things. And I want you to have whatever those things are.”

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190. “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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191. “My husband believed I might die. And he didn’t so much as even call the concierge. A switch flipped in me. I knew, right there and then, I needed to get away from this person. He wasn’t gonna kill me but he would let me die.”

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

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194. “Some people, you bathe them in those lights and they disappear. But some people, they glow.”

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

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196. “I was gorgeous, even at fourteen. Oh, I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that. I turned heads. Now, I take no pride in this. I didn’t make my own face. I didn’t give myself this body. But I’m also not going to sit here and say, ‘Aw, shucks. People really thought I was pretty?’ like some kind of prig.”

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197. “But once he has his hand on the doorknob, I realize that I have put into motion the end of a lackluster life in the interest of eventually finding a great one. “I hope one day you find someone who feels like the other half of you, I guess,” David says.”

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198. “And I didn’t say I was confessing any sins. To say that what I have to tell is a sin is misleading and hurtful. 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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199. “I was in school before I met another person who looked like me. Her name was Yael. Her father was Dominican, and her mother was from Israel. She liked to play soccer. I liked to play dress-up. We could rarely agree on anything. But I liked that when someone asked her if she was Jewish, she said, “I’m half Jewish.” No one else I knew was half something.”

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200. “He had flipped a switch in me. A switch that changed me from a woman who saw making love as a tool into a woman who knew that making love was a need. I needed him. I needed to be seen. I came alive under his gaze. Being married to Don had shown me another side of myself, a side I was just getting to know. A side I liked.”

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