Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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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403. “It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”

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

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405. “Because that is truly all I want in this world. I want to try to do something myself, knowing that when I have nothing left, someone will take me the rest of the way.”

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406. “She did not think of future or past, but only present. How can I stay, how can I hold on, how can I balance? Better. Longer. With more ease.”

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407. “As we spoke more, he told me about a physician-assisted suicide support group he and his sister had joined, for those at the end of their lives and their loved ones. So many in the group were fighting for the right to die with dignity. Healthy eating wasn’t going to save his sister’s life, and neither of them wanted her to suffer any longer than she had to. I knew then that I wanted, very deeply, to give a voice to the people of that support group.”

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408. “I can’t think of any two things that make you quite as self-absorbed as addiction and heartbreak. I had a selfish heart. I didn’t care about anyone or anything but my own pain. My own need. My own aching. I’d have made anyone hurt if it could have taken some of mine away. It’s just how sick I was.”

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409. “It felt like water in the desert.”

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

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411. “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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412. “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.”

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413. “Too much self-sufficiency was sort of mean to the people who loved you.”

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414. “When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too.”

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415. “She always made sure the bad was outweighed by so much good. I... well, I didn’t do that for her. I made it fifty-fifty. Which is about the cruelest thing you can do to someone you love, give them just enough good to make them stick through a hell of a lot of bad.”

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416. “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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417. “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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418. “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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419. “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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420. “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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421. “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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422. “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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423. “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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424. “Everybody is dying darling. You are dying, I am dying, that guy over there is dying.”

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

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426. “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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427. “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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428. “I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody.”

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429. “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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430. “The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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431. “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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432. “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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433. “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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434. “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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435. “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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436. “The memory of you hurt so much at first. The more I thought about your smile, your smell, the more it hurt. But I liked punishing myself. I liked the pain because the pain was you.”

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437. “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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438. “Pete said it best. “Rock ’n’ roll is about getting it on with a girl for the first time. Not about making love to your wife.” And that was Pete saying that! He was as whipped as Billy.”

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

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440. “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.”

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441. “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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442. “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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443. “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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444. “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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445. “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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446. “I’m 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. So if you’re waiting around, hoping that something’s going to crack, I just... I have to tell you that it’s not gonna be me.”

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447. “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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448. “Eine Frau, die sich selbst an die erste Stelle setzt, finden die Leute nicht besonders sympathisch oder liebenswert.”

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449. “Being wanted meant having to satisfy. At least, that was my view of it back then.– Evelyn Hugo.”

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450. “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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