Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “You thought she’d come back to you,” I say. “I knew she’d come back to me,” Evelyn says. “And she knew it, too. We both knew our time wasn’t over.”

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402. “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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403. “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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404. “It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.”

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405. “Sure, we all fade after a while. We are human, full of flaws like anyone else. But we are the chosen ones because we are extraordinary.”

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406. “I am so grateful, right now, for every match and every win and every loss and every lesson that I have behind me. It feels so good, right now, to be thirty-seven years old. To have figured at least some things out. To know the ground underneath my feet.”

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407. “At the age of 79, Hugo has long been an icon of glamour and elegance. She is known for a personal style both sensual and restrained, and many of Hugo’s most famous looks are considered touchstones of the fashion and Hollywood archives.”

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408. “This Could Get Ugly” was her idea, her execution, and it was excellent. She had written something that felt like I could’ve written it except I knew I couldn’t have. I wouldn’t have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you. It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself and that’s what Daisy did with that song – at least for me.”

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409. “The chemistry between their voices – his vulnerability, her fragility – it grabs you and doesn’t let you go. With his voice deep and smooth, and her voice higher and raspier, they somehow still meld together effortlessly, like two voices that have been singing together for ages. They created a deeply heartfelt call and response – a story of this romantic and idealized future that may never come to pass.”

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410. “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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411. “I had predicated my life on the idea that I wanted to see everywhere extraordinary, but I’d come to realize that extraordinary is everywhere. And I was starting to yearn for a chance to settle in somewhere and maybe, perhaps, not need to rush to get on a plane to go somewhere else.”

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412. “I know that I can do this without you. I’ve learned that this past year. But I just miss you right now. I just want you near me. You bring out the best in me. And I could use the best of me right now.”

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

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415. “I slept with Mick because I wanted to protect our careers, mine and hers. And that was more important to me than the sanctity of our relationship. And I slept with Harry because I wanted a baby, and I thought people would get suspicious if we adopted. Because I was afraid to draw attention to the sexlessness of our marriage. And I chose that over the sanctity of our relationship.”

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416. “When you’re older. You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”

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417. “I told her every single day that her life had been the world’s greatest gift to me, that I believed I was put on earth not to make movies or wear emerald-green gowns and wave at crowds but to be her mother.”

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418. “Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.”

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419. “The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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

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421. “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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422. “That’s when I started to take a liking to Celia St. James.”

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

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424. “Simply gone. Irrevocably and forever.”

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425. “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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426. “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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427. “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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428. “Women don’t need to be thin to be valuable.”

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429. “I dress how I want to dress. I wear what I feel comfortable in. How other people feel about it is not my problem.”

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430. “You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until ne day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”

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

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432. “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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433. “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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434. “She’s a lesbian, Evelyn.” Until that point, the sounds of the party going on around us had been muted but still distinct. But the minute Ruby said what she said, the minute I heard the word lesbian, my blood started beating so fast that my pulse was all I could hear. I was not paying attention to what was flying out of Ruby’s mouth. I could only catch certain words, like girl and dyke and twisted.”

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435. “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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436. “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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437. “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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438. “I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time.”

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439. “I love them, and I hate them. But that’s family, I guess.”

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440. “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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441. “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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442. “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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443. “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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444. “Maybe it’s a lie that you have to keep doing what you have always done. That you have to be able to draw a straight line from how you acted yesterday to how you’ll act tomorrow. You don’t have to be consistent. You can change. Just because you want to.”

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445. “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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446. “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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447. “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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448. “Don’t do things you’re not good at.”

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449. “Nobody deserves anything,” Evelyn says. “It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they’re also painfully unoriginal.”

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450. “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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