Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “They will not know what the future holds or if their paths will ever cross again. But they will feel that – for one night at least – someone has seen them as they have always wanted to be seen. And that will be enough.”

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302. “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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303. “You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”

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304. “I was fishing for information that might break my heart. A flaw of the human condition.”

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305. “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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306. “But then I realize that staying still doesn’t actually pause time, it’s still passing, life is still happening. You have to keep moving.”

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307. “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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308. “Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to.”

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309. “Letting people love you and care for you is part of how you love and care for them.”

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310. “Don’t be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”

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311. “He told me he wanted to do work that invigorated him. He said, “You have to do that, too, Monique. When you’re older. You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small. OK? You promise me that?” He put out his hand, and I shook it, like we were making a business deal. I was six. By the time I was eight, we’d lost him.”

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312. “Some men’s childhoods are permitted to last forever, but women are so often reminded that there is work to be done.”

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313. “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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314. “The story of June and Mick Riva seemed like a tragedy to their oldest child, Nina. It felt like a comedy of errors to their first son, Jay. It was an origin story for their second son, Hud. And a mystery to the baby of the family, Kit. To Mick himself it was just a chapter of his memoir. But to June, it was, always and forever, a romance.”

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315. “The finalists were Andrew Thomas and Jadran Petrovich, neither one of whom would set a record by winning. We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”

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316. “Harry died an hour later. After he was gone, I had the devastating luxury of panic.”

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

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318. “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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319. “Having lost the battle, I resolved to win the war. So the next time I saw Ari Sullivan at the studio dining hall, I dropped my purse in front of him and “accidentally” gave him an eyeful as I bent down to pick it up. He made eye contact with me, and then I walked away, as if I wanted nothing from him, as if I had no idea who he was.”

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320. “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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321. “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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322. “Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else.”

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323. “It was inevitable wasn’t it? The small mistakes and heartbreaks of guiding a life. His mother had screwed up as much as she’d succeeded.”

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

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325. “Hugo has weathered her share of Hollywood scandals, not the least of which being her seven marriages, including her decades-long relationship with film producer Harry Cameron. The two Hollywood insiders shared a daughter, Connor Cameron, who is no doubt the influence for the auction.”

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326. “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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327. “They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly. A supernova is a short burst of extraordinary energy.”

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328. “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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329. “Nina, her entire life, had been programmed to accept. Accept that your father left. Accept that your mother was gone. Accept that you must take care of your siblings. Accept that the world wants to lust after you. Accept Accept Accept.”

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330. “Because you are not yet who you will one day be.”

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

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332. “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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333. “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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334. “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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335. “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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336. “Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

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

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339. “I thought of how many women out there thought they could prevent their husbands from cheating if only they were as gorgeous as Evelyn Hugo. But it never stopped any man I loved.”

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

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341. “Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch. That’s why it’s a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred.”

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342. “Nobody deserves anything. It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves.”

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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. “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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345. “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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346. “It felt like water in the desert.”

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

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349. “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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350. “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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