Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “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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254. “My dad and I. Always together. Our little team of two. Proud coach and star student.”

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

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256. “You are happier to have known him than you are sad to have lost him.”

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

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

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

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

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264. “Oh I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that.”

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

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267. “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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268. “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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269. “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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270. “Why take a chance on another book when I already know I like this one?”

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271. “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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272. “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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273. “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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274. “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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275. “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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276. “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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277. “Im 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.”

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278. “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. Eso es algo sagrado.”

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279. “But that’s a luxury. You can do that when you’re rich and famous. You can decide that wealth and renown are worthless when you have them. Back then, I still thought I had all the time I needed to do everything I wanted. That if I just played my cards right, I could have it all.”

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280. “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.”

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281. “Art doesn’t owe anything to anyone. Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had 5he right to claim any emotion at any time.”

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282. “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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283. “This beautiful thing you’ve been happy to simply appreciate, well, now it’s yours to own.”

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284. “Celia may have left me in a huff, but it was a death by a thousand cuts. I hurt her with these tiny scratches, day after day. And then I got surprised when it left a wound too big to heal.”

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285. “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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286. “And I didn’t say I was confessing any sins. To say that what I have to tell is a sin is misleading and hurtful. 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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287. “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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288. “No matter who you choose to go down the road with, you’re gonna get hurt. That’s just the nature of caring about someone. No matter who you love, they will break your heart along the way.”

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289. “People don’t find it very sympathetic or endearing, a woman who puts herself first. Nor do people respect a man who can’t keep his wife in line.”

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290. “We’re home,′ I said. This wasn’t my home. We’d never lived here together before. But she knew what I meant. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘We’re home.”

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291. “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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292. “I only remember clinging to her, holding her as best I could. I only remember saying, “We didn’t have enough time.”

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293. “That was how it was with Celia. When you denied her what she wanted, when you hurt her, she made sure you hurt, too.”

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294. “You want that normal family life so bad. You wanted it so bad you met someone at nineteen and never looked back.”

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295. “My older self knows that you must stop – in the middle of the chaos – to take in the world around you. To breathe in deeply, smell the sunscreen and the rubber of the ball, let the breeze blow across your neck, feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. In this respect, I love the way the world has aged me.”

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296. “When you find that rare person who really knows who you are, and they still don’t love you.”

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297. “All right,” I say. “Show me the real you, then. And I’ll make sure the world understands.”

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298. “I hope one day you find someone who feels like the other half of you.”

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

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300. “It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that. And what I wanted was a life – a family, a beautiful marriage, a home – with him. With the man I knew he truly was. And I was going to get it, hell or high water.”

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