Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 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. “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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154. “My heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”

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

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157. “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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158. “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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159. “Silence is your best friend.”

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160. “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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161. “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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162. “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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163. “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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164. “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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165. “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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166. “Celia St. James is going to ruin everything.”

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167. “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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168. “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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169. “Talent like Daisy’s is wasted on people like Daisy.”

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

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

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

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173. “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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174. “Intimacy is about truth.”

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175. “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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176. “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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177. “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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178. “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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179. “That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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188. “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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189. “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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190. “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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191. “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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192. “Two men sleeping together. Married to two women sleeping together. We were four beards.”

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193. “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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194. “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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195. “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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196. “It won’t be fun, necessarily. But it will be good. It’s like going to a party when you’ve had a bad day. You don’t want to go, but you know you should. You know that even if you don’t enjoy it, it will do you good to get out of the house.”

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197. “Fidel Castro had control of Cuba. Eisenhower had already put the economic embargo in place by that point. The Bay of Pigs had been a disaster. Being a Cuban-American was complicated. And instead of trying to make my way in the world as a Cuban woman, I simply forsook where I came from. In some ways, this helped me release any remaining ties connecting me to my father.”

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198. “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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199. “I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”

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200. “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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