Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.”

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352. “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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353. “Nothing means anything without you.”

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

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355. “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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356. “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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357. “It’s ineffable. If I could define it, I wouldn’t have any use for it.”

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

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359. “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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360. “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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361. “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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362. “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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363. “Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

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364. “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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365. “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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366. “Oh, you definitely are. Getting me fired because you think I’ll show you up? Awful. That’s just awful, Evelyn. And walking around bragging about how you use people? Just terrible. But I really like it when you talk about.”

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

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368. “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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369. “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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370. “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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371. “I’m the one that got stuck with the big butt.”

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372. “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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373. “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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374. “You should be predictable and then do something unpredictable, and they’ll love you forever.”

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375. “You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The family peace of loving plainly.”

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376. “There is something very striking about Frankie. I’m not sure that you’d say she was conventionally attractive – her features are severe, her eyes very wide apart – but she is nevertheless someone you can’t help but look at and admire.”

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377. “You’re asking me if I knew he was going to be unfaithful as if that’s a thing that you know or don’t know. Like it’s black and white. But it’s not. You suspect, then you sort of un-suspect. Then you suspect again. Then you tell yourself you’re crazy. Then you ask yourself whether fidelity is really something you value above all else.”

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378. “Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I’ll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn’t be it.”

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379. “We loved each other and we lost each other. And now, even though we still love each other, the pieces don’t fit like they used to.” I could make myself fit for him. He could make himself fit for me. But that’s not true love.”

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380. “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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381. “It was such a sad love song. About wanting somebody you can’t have and knowing you’re going to want them anyway.”

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

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384. “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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385. “To love someone. To care for them. To throw your lot in with theirs and think, Whatever happens, it’s you and me.”

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386. “I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody.”

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387. “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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388. “Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”

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389. “The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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390. “She never called me Evelyn, only mija, which made me feel really special, like I was hers and she was mine.”

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391. “And yet that sense that you can feel your heart in your chest, that your body tells you it wants more, that you lose yourself in the scent, taste, and feel of another person – it was all the same.”

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392. “They each seemed like they thought the other one was the only person in the room. Like we were watching two people who didn’t realize thousands of people were watching them.”

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393. “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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394. “You can’t capture love in a bottle. You can’t hold on to it with both hands and force it to stay with you.”

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395. “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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396. “Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not.”

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397. “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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398. “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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399. “It’s on the house,” he said, which I thought was the dumbest thing, because if there is anyone that should be getting free food, it isn’t rich people.”

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400. “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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