Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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352. “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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353. “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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354. “Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not.”

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355. “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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356. “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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357. “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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358. “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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359. “I only remember clinging to her, holding her as best I could. I only remember saying, “We didn’t have enough time.”

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360. “If you are heartbroken right now, then I feel for you deeply,” Evelyn says. “That I have the utmost respect for. That’s the sort of thing that can split a person in two. But I wasn’t heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things.” When Evelyn says this, I stop my pen in place. I look up at her. And I wonder why I needed Evelyn to tell me that. I wonder why that sort of distinction has never crossed my mind before.”

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361. “But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it’s time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.”

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362. “I would sometimes choose to just go along with what he wanted or what he said so that I didn’t cause a fight. And somewhere along the way, I started to feel like I couldn’t be honest.”

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363. “Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not... They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood.”

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364. “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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365. “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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366. “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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367. “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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368. “I’m glad you have no one left. I’m glad there’s no one alive to love you.”

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369. “It was a big lesson for me when I was young – being given things versus earning them. I was so used to being given things that I didn’t know how important it is for your soul to earn them.”

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370. “My older self knows that you must stop – in the middle of the chaos – to take in the world around you. To breathe in deeply, smell the sunscreen and the rubber of the ball, let the breeze blow across your neck, feel the warmth of the sun on your skin. In this respect, I love the way the world has aged me.”

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

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372. “All right,” I say. “Show me the real you, then. And I’ll make sure the world understands.”

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

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374. “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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375. “I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.”

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376. “Isn’t it awfully convenient,” Harry added, “that when men make the rules, the one thing that’s looked down on the most is the one thing that would bear them the greatest threat? Imagine if every single woman on the planet wanted something in exchange when she gave up her body. You’d all be ruling the place.”

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377. “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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378. “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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379. “Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.”

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380. “It’s so strange, how someone’s silence, someone’s insistence that something isn’t happening can be so suffocating. But it can be. And suffocating is exactly the word, too. You feel like you can’t breathe.”

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381. “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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382. “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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383. “Because our whole is greater than the sum of our parts.”

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384. “We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.”

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385. “There are people who see a beautiful flower and rush over to pick it. They want to hold it in their hands, they want to own it. They want the flower’s beauty to be theirs, to be within their possession, their control.”

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386. “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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387. “It didn’t seem right to me that his weakest self got to decide how my life was going to turn out, what my family was going to look like. I got to decide that. And what I wanted was a life – a family, a beautiful marriage, a home – with him. With the man I knew he truly was. And I was going to get it, hell or high water.”

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388. “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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389. “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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390. “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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391. “Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

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392. “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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393. “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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394. “Because you are not yet who you will one day be.”

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395. “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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396. “When you almost lose your life, it makes you want to double down, to do something important and bigger than yourself.”

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397. “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.”

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398. “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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399. “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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400. “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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