Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”

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252. “One of the great injustices of this rigged world we live in is that women are considered to be depleting with age and men are somehow deepening.”

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253. “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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254. “Hice que fuera mitad y mitad. Que es una de las peores cosas que puedes hacerle a alguien a quien quieres: darle apenas lo suficiente para que se quede contigo a pesar de tantos malos momentos.”

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255. “My dad and I. Always together. Our little team of two. Proud coach and star student.”

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256. “Just because it is in Malibu’s nature to burn, so was it in one particular person’s nature to set fire and walk away.”

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257. “Here you go, Jav,” he says. “Jav?” I say. “You’re on a nickname basis now?” “Of course we are,” my dad says. Though he’s joking around, he seems tired. “Thanks, B.” “Bowe is already short for Bowen,” I say. “You don’t need to shorten it again.” My dad waves me off. “Mind your own business, Care.” Bowe laughs, and I throw up my hands.”

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258. “I suspected the problem was that I was always the winner. But I could not for the life of me understand why that made people want to play with me less instead of more.”

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259. “We are lying in bed. We are naked. We are tangled in sheets, covered in sweat. We lie in each other’s arms and I am reminded of all of the other times we lay next to each other, catching our breath side by side, limbs intertwined.”

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

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261. “Because our whole is greater than the sum of our parts.”

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

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264. “Would I have clung to his every word so tightly if his advice felt unlimited?”

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265. “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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266. “There was something vaguely midwestern about him, not so much in how he looked but in the way he approached people, with kindness first, then strength.”

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267. “Actually, it wasn’t that fun, it was just that I was happy. Everything seems fun when you’re happy.”

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268. “The sun rises the next day after mothers lose their babies, after men lose their wives, after countries lose wars. The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise. So you can’t go around assessing love by whether or not the sun rises. The sun doesn’t care about love. It just cares about rising.”

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

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270. “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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271. “You think things are meant to be?” I ask her. For some reason, I think I’ll feel better if things are meant to be. It gets me off the hook, doesn’t it? If things are meant to be, it means I don’t have to worry so much about consequences and mistakes. I can take my hands off the wheel. Believing in fate is like living on cruise control.”

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272. “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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273. “What I actually remember most about her is the emptiness she left behind. There was this sense, within the house, that there used to be someone else here. But now it was just my father and me.”

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274. “I know how it feels for people to assume things about you, to prescribe a label for you based on how you appear to them. I have spent my life trying to explain to people that while I look black, I am biracial. I have spent my life knowing the importance of allowing people to tell you who they are instead of reducing them to labels.”

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

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277. “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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278. “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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279. “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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280. “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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281. “I wanted to give her a lot of things. I wanted what I had be hers. I wondered if this was what it felt like to love someone.”

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

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283. “It felt like water in the desert.”

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284. “Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not... They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood.”

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285. “Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something.”

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286. “And I can’t say that, either. I have loved you every single day.” “You married someone else.” “I married him because he helped me forget you,” I said. “Not because I stopped loving you.”

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287. “I suppose everybody hurts everybody, but women always seem to get back up, you ever notice that? Women are always still standing.”

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288. “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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289. “And yet, we cannot deny that the tide has turned. Carrie Soto is the past. Nicki Chan is the future. The Queen is dead, long live the Queen.”

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290. “That’s what I loved about her. She was no wallflower. You just had to be paying attention to see it.”

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291. “It’s so strange, how someone’s silence, someone’s insistence that something isn’t happening can be so suffocating. But it can be. And suffocating is exactly the word, too. You feel like you can’t breathe.”

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292. “Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I’ll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn’t be it.”

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293. “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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294. “You gave me hope and perspective and confidence. Right before you gave me my baby.”

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295. “I would sometimes choose to just go along with what he wanted or what he said so that I didn’t cause a fight. And somewhere along the way, I started to feel like I couldn’t be honest.”

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296. “I can’t pretend things are OK until they’re actually OK.”

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297. “I was so incredibly bored of my life. Of the speed and coke and the cycle. It was like watching a movie for the 100th time. You already know when the bad guy’s gonna show up, you already know what the hero will do. It was so boring, the thought of it, I wanted to die, I wanted real life, for once. Anything real.”

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298. “But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it’s time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.”

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299. “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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300. “I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.”

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