Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It just became so perfectly clear to me that I had been holding on tightly to the possibility. The possibility of Daisy. And suddenly, I was having a very hard time with the idea of letting that go. Of saying, “Never.”

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152. “Be wary of men with something to prove.”

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153. “Stay with me, Harry. Stay with me. Stay true blue.”

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154. “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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155. “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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156. “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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157. “Handsome men that tell you what you want to hear are almost always liars.”

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158. “What a gift it is, to be able to guide someone to a point and then let them finish it themself. To give someone all the knowledge you have and then pray they use it right.”

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159. “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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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. “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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162. “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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163. “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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164. “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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165. “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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166. “First, you have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it. You tried. You were told no. Get over it.” “And the second thing?” “When you use people, be good at it.”

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167. “I once thought that grief was chronic, that all you could do was appreciate the good days and take them along with the bad. And then I started to think that maybe the good days aren’t just days; maybe the good days can be good weeks, good months, good years. Now I wonder if grief isn’t something like a shell. You wear it for a long time and then one day you realize you’ve outgrown it. So you put it down.”

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168. “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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169. “It was around that time that I started to believe that friendships could be written in the stars. “If there are all different types of soul mates,” I told Harry one afternoon, when the two of us were sitting out on the patio with Connor, “then you are one of mine.”

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170. “Talent like Daisy’s is wasted on people like Daisy.”

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171. “Your love life should bring you love. If it doesn’t, no matter how hard you try, if you are honest and fair and good, and you decide it’s over and you need to go find love somewhere else, then... what more can the world ask of you?”

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172. “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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173. “The devastating luxury of panic overtook me.”

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174. “I’m bisexual. Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box.”

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

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176. “Intimacy is about truth.”

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177. “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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178. “I’m okay with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly... I have compassion for myself. I trust myself. I don’t regret it. Because I know I had my reasons, and I did the best I could with every thought and feeling that led up to it.”

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179. “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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180. “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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181. “I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.”

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

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

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184. “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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185. “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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186. “Destruction. And renewal, rising from the ashes. The story of fire.”

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

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188. “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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189. “No one is completely good or completely bad.”

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190. “Thank you,” I say to my parents. “For trusting me with this store and for waiting for me to fall in love with it on my own, in my own way. Thank you for guiding me toward a life that makes me happy.”

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191. “Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don’t do that.”

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192. “Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you can’t quite believe how deep it is. It feels as if this is how you will live for the rest of your life, falling. Terrified and devastated, until you yourself die.”

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193. “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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194. “You start to understand that grief is chronic. That it’s more about remission and relapse than it is about a cure. What that means to you is that you can’t simply wait for it to be over. You have to move through it, like swimming in an undertow.”

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195. “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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196. “It breaks my heart to be loved like this, to be loved so purely that I’m capable of breaking a heart.”

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “Two men sleeping together. Married to two women sleeping together. We were four beards.”

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200. “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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