Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “As we spoke more, he told me about a physician-assisted suicide support group he and his sister had joined, for those at the end of their lives and their loved ones. So many in the group were fighting for the right to die with dignity. Healthy eating wasn’t going to save his sister’s life, and neither of them wanted her to suffer any longer than she had to. I knew then that I wanted, very deeply, to give a voice to the people of that support group.”

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302. “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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303. “Celia St. James is going to ruin everything.”

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304. “Cuando uno quiere abarcar demasiado desde el comienzo, resulta obvio que no sabe lo que hace.”

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305. “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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306. “I wanted out of my apartment, away from my father’s stale tequila breath and heavy hand. I wanted someone to take care of me. I wanted a nice house and money. I wanted to run, far away from my life. I wanted to go where my mom had promised me we’d end up someday.”

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307. “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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308. “Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.”

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309. “But I don’t think what you’re born into says anything about where you’re headed.”

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310. “Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else.”

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311. “All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be truly mine.”

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312. “Eine Frau, die sich selbst an die erste Stelle setzt, finden die Leute nicht besonders sympathisch oder liebenswert.”

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

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314. “Our friendship had been a long-distance one since we went off to college. But I never met another woman who meant to me what she did. No one else could make me laugh like she could. So my oldest friend remained my best friend, despite however many miles kept us apart, and it was for that reason that I made her my maid of honor.”

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

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316. “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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317. “Never let someone make you feel ordinary.”

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318. “You lack nothing at all. I hope you see that.”

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319. “But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you.”

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320. “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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321. “I am afraid of losing. I am afraid of how it will look to the world. I’m afraid of this match being the last match my father ever sees me play. I am afraid of ending this all on a loss. I am afraid of so much.”

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322. “Having lost the battle, I resolved to win the war.”

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323. “It scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it.”

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324. “If there are an infinite number of universes, I don’t know how I got so lucky as to end up in this one. Maybe there are other lives for me out there, but I can’t imagine being as happy in any of them as I am right now, today. I have to think that while I may exist in other universes, none is as good as this.”

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325. “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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326. “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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327. “My ass might as well have been a flat wall. You could hang a picture on it.”

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328. “You thought she’d come back to you,” I say. “I knew she’d come back to me,” Evelyn says. “And she knew it, too. We both knew our time wasn’t over.”

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

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330. “It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.”

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331. “My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, beat differently.”

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332. “And then I keep running. It quiets the voices in my head. It calms my nerves. It forces me to think of no one, nothing, but the sound of my breath, the banging of my heart inside my chest, and the fact that I must keep going.”

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333. “This Could Get Ugly” was her idea, her execution, and it was excellent. She had written something that felt like I could’ve written it except I knew I couldn’t have. I wouldn’t have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you. It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself and that’s what Daisy did with that song – at least for me.”

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334. “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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335. “She likes to be cavalier about things that would change other people’s lives. Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?”

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

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

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339. “When you’re older. You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”

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340. “This isn’t what thirty is supposed to look like. It’s not what thirty is supposed to feel like. By thirty, you’re supposed to have things figured out, aren’t you? You’re not supposed to be questioning everything you’ve built your life on.”

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341. “Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.”

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342. “How someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”

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343. “Luckily, I did not need to be pretty. My body was built to wage war.”

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344. “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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345. “I think that perhaps everyone has a moment that splits their life in two. When you look back on your own timeline, there’s a sharp spike somewhere along the way, some event that changed you, changed your life, more than others.”

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346. “There is no failing or winning or losing, she says. This is life Lauren. This is love and marriage. If you stay married for a number of years and you have a happy time together and then you decide you don’t want to be married anymore and you choose to go be happy with someone else or doing something else, that’s not failure. That’s just life. That’s just how love is. How is that failure?”

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347. “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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348. “Evelyn, I have been in love with you since 1959. I may not have always shown it, I may have let other things get in the way, but know that I have loved you that long. That I have never stopped. And that I never will.”

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

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350. “I slept with Mick because I wanted to protect our careers, mine and hers. And that was more important to me than the sanctity of our relationship. And I slept with Harry because I wanted a baby, and I thought people would get suspicious if we adopted. Because I was afraid to draw attention to the sexlessness of our marriage. And I chose that over the sanctity of our relationship.”

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