Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

352. “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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353. “I’m the one that got stuck with the big butt.”

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354. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

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357. “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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358. “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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359. “I’ve always been a bit like an ostrich, willing to bury my head in the sand to avoid what I don’t want to face.”

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360. “Im not perfect. I’ll never be perfect. I don’t expect anything to be perfect. But things don’t have to be perfect to be strong.”

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

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362. “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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363. “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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364. “That’s when I started to take a liking to Celia St. James.”

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

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366. “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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367. “The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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

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369. “Simply gone. Irrevocably and forever.”

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370. “That love has shown through everything you’ve said and done. Unconditional love is the freedom to follow your heart and still have a home.”

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371. “He was sober, he put his kids first, he would and did do anything for his family. He was a good man. I guess I’m saying... if you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption.”

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372. “There’s this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.”

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373. “Once I had put enough distance between myself and where I grew up, I started to see its beauty. I started to see it the way outsiders do – maybe because I had become an outsider.”

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374. “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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375. “Women don’t need to be thin to be valuable.”

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376. “I regret that marriage, but I do not regret that dress.”

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377. “When you think of me, I hope it ruins rock ‘n’ roll.”

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378. “I’m not scared of flying. I’m scared of sharks, hurricanes, and false imprisonment. I’m scared that I will never do anything of value with my life. But I’m not scared of flying.”

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379. “But it was not, Nina saw just then, her job to carry the full box. Her job was to sort through the box. To decide what to keep, and to put the rest down. She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”

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380. “I blame pheromones, ultimately.”

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381. “When there is only you, you do not get to choose which jobs you want, you do not get to decide you are incapable of anything. There is no room for distaste or weakness. You must do it all.”

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382. “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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383. “I’m OK with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly. And also, I have compassion for myself. I trust myself.”

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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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387. “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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388. “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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389. “Everything that is possible happens.”

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390. “She’s going to be the girl bleeding in a beautiful dress until it kills her. I felt lost, sad, depressed, sick. I felt really hopeless but also like I didn’t have the luxury of giving up.”

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391. “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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392. “We’re getting a marriage license and I will marry you right then and there in front of the judge. That doesn’t scare me. Diapers scare me. But spending my life with you doesn’t scare me. Not one bit.”

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393. “Sometimes Ruby and I, and some of the other girls on the lot, would grab lunch and gossip about various goings-on, but, to be honest, I would have thrown every single one of them in front of a moving train to get a part. And I think they would have done the same to me.”

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394. “Splenda?′ she offers. I shake my head. I stopped drinking artificial sweeteners six months ago and I feel entirely the same but I’m still convinced it’s for a good cause. ‘I’m off the sauce,’ I say.”

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395. “Don’t do things you’re not good at.”

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396. “Accept accept accept. For so long, Nina had believed it was her greatest strength – that she could withstand, that she could endure, that she would accept it all and keep going. It was so foreign to her, the idea of declaring that something was unacceptable.”

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397. “Don’t ever let anyone tell you the most romantic part of love is the beginning. The most romantic part is when you know it has to end.”

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398. “As I tell my mom I love her and hang up the phone, I feel proud of myself, smug even. I have no idea that in less than a week, Evelyn Hugo will finish her story, and I’ll find out what this has all been about, and I will hate her so much that I’ll be truly afraid I might kill her.”

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399. “It’s a hard business, reconciling what the truth used to be with what the truth is now. Luckily, I didn’t have to do it for very long.”

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400. “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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