Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

152. “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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153. “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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154. “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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155. “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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156. “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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157. “That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”

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158. “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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159. “Be wary of men with something to prove.”

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

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

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162. “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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163. “No one is completely good or completely bad.”

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164. “My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn’t gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it. I’ve never understood that, but I’m done fighting it. I’m here to be Frankie one day, maybe bigger than Frankie. To do big, important work that I am proud of. To leave a mark. And I’m nowhere near doing that yet.”

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

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167. “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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168. “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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169. “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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170. “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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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “She liked to ignore the fact that I had made love to men and enjoyed it. She liked to ignore it until the very moment she decided to be threatened by it. That seemed to be her pattern. I was a lesbian when she loved me and a straight woman when she hated me.”

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175. “The two of you think you’re lost souls, but you’re what everybody is looking for.”

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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “Celia St. James is going to ruin everything.”

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

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181. “I’d rather survive it than never feel it.”

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182. “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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183. “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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184. “The devastating luxury of panic overtook me.”

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

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

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187. “Intimacy is about truth.”

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188. “I don’t want to let you love me if you don’t think you can lose me again. One last time.”

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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. “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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191. “My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, beat differently.”

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

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

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194. “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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195. “Destruction. And renewal, rising from the ashes. The story of fire.”

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

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197. “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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198. “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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199. “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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200. “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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