Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “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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303. “You know, one of things you learn in recovery from addiction is that self-control is the only control we have. That all you can do is make sure your own actions are sound because you can’t control actions of others.”

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304. “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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305. “It’s as if a gorgeous, delicate bird has just flown to me and sat directly on my shoulder, and if I don’t make the exact right move, it might fly away.”

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306. “Drunk words are sober thoughts,” he said, and then he fell asleep.”

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307. “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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308. “Better yet, remind them that Evelyn Hugo never existed. She was a person I made up for them. So that they would love me. Tell them that I was confused, for a very long time, about what love was. Tell them that I understand it now, and I don’t need their love anymore. Say to them, “Evelyn Hugo just wants to go home. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother.” Tell them Evelyn Hugo says good-bye.”.”

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309. “No se puede tratar a la gente como si fuera una mierda y esperar borrarlo con una simple disculpa.”

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310. “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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311. “Brick was a former matinee idol who honest-to-God thought he might be the messiah. Just standing next to him, I thought I might drown in the self-adoration cascading off him.”

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312. “For all her posturing, Celia had one thing in common with almost every straight man in America: she wanted nothing more than to get her hands on my chest.”

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313. “Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”

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314. “I’m glad you have no one left. I’m glad there’s no one alive to love you.”

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315. “All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”

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

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317. “I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time.”

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318. “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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319. “I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.”

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320. “We just really liked each other. It was almost as if when I met him, I met this other side of myself. Someone who understands me and made me feel safe. It wasn’t just passionate really. We just knew we could be happy together.”

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321. “You do sometimes sit and wonder why it wasn’t you, what makes you so special that you get to be safe. The world doesn’t make much sense.”

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322. “Nothing means anything without you.”

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323. “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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324. “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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325. “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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326. “It’s ineffable. If I could define it, I wouldn’t have any use for it.”

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

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328. “I’ve never thought of myself as a force to be reckoned with. Maybe I should start thinking of myself that way; maybe I deserve to.”

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329. “That’s like saying Achilles was a great warrior simply because he lived during wartime. Achilles was a great warrior because it was his destiny to be one.”

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330. “Some marriages aren’t really that great. Some loves aren’t all-encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren’t that good together to begin with. Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

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331. “But she would understand that it was one fire, in a long line of fires in Malibu since the dawn of time. It had brought destruction. It would also bring renewal, rising from the ashes. The story of fire.”

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332. “Marriage is about commitment. It’s about loyalty. It’s not about happiness. Happiness is secondary. And ultimately, marriage is about children.” She gives me a knowing look. “If you had a baby, no matter how unhappy you were together, you’d have stayed together. Children bind you. They connect you. That’s what marriage is about.”

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333. “I’m the one that got stuck with the big butt.”

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334. “Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

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

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336. “People act like marriage is confinement, June thought, but isn’t this freedom? She was thrilled to finally be able to say yes, to feel everything she wanted to feel.”

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337. “It is hard to be so honest, so vulnerable, so exposed. But I find that it always leads you someplace freer.”

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338. “I love him. I love this man. No one knows me the way he knows me, no one loves me the way he loves me. There is other love out there for me. But it’s different. It isn’t this. It isn’t this exact love. It’s better and it’s worse. But I guess that’s sort of the point of love between two people – you can’t re-create it. Every time you love, everyone you love, the love is different. You’re different in it. Right now, I want nothing but to revel in this love.”

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

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340. “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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341. “I had been living in this world where I thought I could have this closeness with Celia and this distance with Don and neither of them would need anything else from anyone else.”

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342. “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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343. “You should be predictable and then do something unpredictable, and they’ll love you forever.”

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344. “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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345. “I love you,” she said. “I love you, too,” I whispered into her ear. “I love you more than anything else in the entire world.” “It’s not wrong,” Celia said. “It shouldn’t be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?” “It’s not wrong, sweetheart. It’s not,” I said. “They’re wrong.”

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346. “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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347. “There’s only so long you can live your life while it’s being dictated to you by somebody else, you understand? And I don’t care how much money is in it for me, I’m not somebody’s lackey. I’m not some indentured servant. I’m a person.”

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348. “I just want to know you’re okay. I want to know that you didn’t suffer. I want to believe that you are in a better place, that you are happy and have all the things in life that you loved, with you. I want to believe that you and your father are together. Maybe at a barbecue in heaven, eating hot dogs. I know that’s not the case. I know that you are gone. But I don’t know how to live with that knowledge.”

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

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350. “So do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear – Evelyn Hugo.”

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