Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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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152. “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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153. “This is something that everyone should know about stars. We like to be told we are adored, and we want you to repeat yourself. Later in my life, people would always come up to me and say, “I’m sure you don’t want to hear me blabbering on about how great you are,” and I always say, as if I’m joking, “Oh, one more time won’t hurt.” But the truth is, 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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154. “La gente dice que la vida siempre avanza, pero no mencionan que a veces se detiene, solo para ti.”

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

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

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158. “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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159. “You gave me hope and perspective and confidence. Right before you gave me my baby.”

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

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161. “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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162. “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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163. “I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it’s not faith, right?”

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164. “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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165. “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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166. “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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167. “Celia St. James is going to ruin everything.”

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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “You don’t have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you.”

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

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174. “Here is what I can tell you. All that matters in this life is that you try. All that matters is that you open your heart, give everything you have, and keep trying.”

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175. “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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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “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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180. “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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181. “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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182. “My heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”

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183. “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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184. “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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185. “She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men.”

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186. “There’s this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.”

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

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

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190. “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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191. “I regret that marriage, but I do not regret that dress.”

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

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193. “It had brought destruction. It would also bring renewal, rising from the ashes. The story of fire.”

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194. “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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195. “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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196. “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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197. “The devastating luxury of panic overtook me.”

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198. “Amar a alguien no es ser perfecto, pasar solo buenos ratos y hacer el amor. 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.”

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199. “Drunk words are sober thoughts,” he said, and then he fell asleep.”

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200. “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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