Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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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302. “And no one was happy but everyone was kind of equally dissatisfied.”

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

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304. “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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305. “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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306. “That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone “Forget about us. We will be okay,” when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten.”

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

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308. “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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309. “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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310. “I’m the one that got stuck with the big butt.”

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311. “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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312. “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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313. “Why take a chance on another book when I already know I like this one?”

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314. “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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315. “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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316. “You know that you will never truly be free of the grief. You know that it is something you must learn to live with, something you manage.”

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317. “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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318. “There’s the early marriage that ended in divorce when she was eighteen. Then the studio-setup courtship and tumultuous marriage to Hollywood royalty Don Adler. The rumors that she left him because he beat her. Her comeback in a French New Wave film. The quickie Vegas elopement with singer Mick Riva. Her glamorous marriage to the dapper Rex North, which ended in both of them having affairs.”

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319. “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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320. “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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321. “The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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322. “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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323. “I’m learning just to appreciate the good while you have it in your sights. Not to worry so much about what it all means and what will happen next.”

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324. “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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325. “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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326. “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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327. “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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328. “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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329. “It’s one thing to play coy with them, I suppose. But what I have to do is stop playing coy with myself.”

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330. “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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331. “I love you so much that when I sometimes get a look at all the crazy fan mail you get, I think, well, sure, that makes sense. I want to collect her eyelashes too.”

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332. “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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333. “When it hurts so bad you don’t think you can stand it, I say, squeeze my hand.”

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334. “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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335. “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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336. “Never let someone make you feel ordinary.”

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

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338. “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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339. “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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340. “I once read that charisma is “charm that inspires devotion.”

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341. “There’s a huge hole in my heart where you used to be. When you were alive, I used to sometimes lie awake at night and listen to you snore, and I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have found you.”

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342. “You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until ne day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”

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343. “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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344. “Relationships aren’t neat and clean. They’re ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them.”

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

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

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347. “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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348. “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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349. “Because our whole is greater than the sum of our parts.”

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350. “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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