Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, beat differently.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

252. “Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat?”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

253. “I don’t need perfect love and I don’t need a perfect husband and I don’t need perfect kids and a perfect life and all that. I want mine. I want my love, my husband, my kids, my life. I’m not perfect. I’ll never be perfect. I don’t expect anything to be perfect, but things don’t have to be perfect to be strong.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

254. “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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255. “Don had pushed me down the stairs nine days before. Even as I say it all these years later, I feel the need to defend him. To say that it wasn’t as bad as it sounds. That we were toward the bottom of the stairs, and he gave me a shove that bumped me down about four steps and onto the floor.”

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256. “All I could think was that he didn’t know about that line of freckles on her hip. I knew about them, and he didn’t.”

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257. “Divide the pain in two,” I tell her. “And give half of it to me.”

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258. “Either way, it’s not enough for me to say, “I love you.” The words feel so small compared to everything that’s in me. I have to show him. I have to make sure that it’s felt as much as heard.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

259. “If I don’t win,” she said, her wet hair dripping onto the spaghetti straps of her slip, “will you still love me?” I thought she was joking until I looked directly into her eyes. “You could be a nobody living in a cardboard box, and I’d still love you.”

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

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261. “Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I loved about the world, Daisy loved about the world. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same.”

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262. “I can’t speak for all people who have been hit by someone they love, but what I can tell you is that forgiveness is different from absolution.”

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

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264. “Some people just don’t threaten each other. And other people threaten everything about each other. Just the way it is.”

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265. “I’d made him arroz con pollo that night, and I specifically didn’t take my apron off when I brought it up. I wanted him to see me as harmless and domestic. I thought I’d get further if I didn’t threaten him. It grated on my nerves to have to ask him how I could spend my own money. But I didn’t see another choice. “Sure,” he said. “I think it’s a smart thing to do. You’ll get better, and who knows, you might even star in a picture one day.” I would star. I wanted to punch his lights out.”

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266. “Two men sleeping together. Married to two women sleeping together. We were four beards.”

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267. “Twenty-five but she felt forty. Married but she was alone. Childless and yet, hadn’t she raised children?”

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268. “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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269. “They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. Each time you recollect a memory, you change it, ever so slightly, shading it with new information, new feelings.”

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270. “Everyone I loved is dead now. There’s no one left to protect. No one left to lie for but me – Evelyn Hugo.”

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

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272. “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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273. “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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274. “I’m saying that when you really love someone, sometimes the things they need may hurt you, and some people are worth hurting for.”

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275. “People say it’s hard to be away from the people you love but it was so hard to be right next to him.”

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276. “It’s ineffable. If I could define it, I wouldn’t have any use for it.”

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277. “She knew that childhood is made up of days magnificent and mundane. And this had been a magnificent day for all of them.”

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278. “It cost so much, caring. I didn’t have any currency to spend on it.”

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279. “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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280. “The book I brought is an unauthorized biography of Daisy Jones and the Six. I’m only reading to see who slept with who, but I can’t focus.”

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281. “You made my life worth living. I promise you I am going to do something with it.”

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282. “Accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking it is just.”

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283. “I turn the water to nearly scalding hot. I love water so hot it almost burns. I love the smell of shampoo. My happiest place might just be under a showerhead. It is here in the steam, covered in suds, that I do not feel like Monique Grant, woman left behind. Or even Monique Grant, stalled writer. I am just Monique Grant, owner of luxury bath products.”

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284. “Unconditional love is the freedom to follow your heart and still have a home.”

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285. “Mick Riva’s kid?” my dad said. “I cannot stand that guy.”

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286. “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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287. “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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288. “From experience, I can tell you that if you go around trying to figure out what’s fair in life or whether you deserve something or not, that’s a rabbit hole that is hard to climb out of.”

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289. “Why take a chance on another book when I already know I like this one?”

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290. “I have been reeling because I failed. Because I picked the wrong guy for me. Because I entered the wrong marriage. Because the truth is that at the age of thirty-five, I have yet to love someone enough to sacrifice for them. I’ve yet to open my heart enough to let someone in that much.”

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291. “But nothing could prepare me for the pain of watching my child suffer. I held her when she puked from the chemo. I wrapped her in blankets when she was so cold she was crying. I kissed her forehead like she was my baby again, because she was forever my baby.”

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292. “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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293. “Knowing you did the right thing doesn’t mean you’re happy about it.”

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294. “Camila said to me, “I wish Billy didn’t love anyone else. But do you know what I decided a long time ago? I decided I don’t need perfect love and I don’t need a perfect husband and I don’t need perfect kids and a perfect life and all that. I want mine. I want my love, my husband, my kids, my life.”

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295. “You destroyed me,” she said. “Twice now in our lives. I have spent years getting over you.”

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296. “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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297. “You can’t love someone back to health and you can’t hate someone back to health and no matter how right you are about something, it doesn’t mean they will change their mind.”

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298. “Instead, Nina Riva stood on the edge of the cliff she’d never wanted, and looked out onto the water she wished was closer, and for the first time in her quiet life, screamed into the wind.”

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299. “I took a taste of it. Not even a sip, but a taste. It took everything I had not to gulp it down, not to throw it into the back of my throat. It tasted like comfort and freedom. That’s how it gets you – what it feels like is the opposite of what it is.”

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300. “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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