Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “It’s one thing to play coy with them, I suppose. But what I have to do is stop playing coy with myself.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

402. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

403. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

406. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

407. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

408. “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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409. “You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

410. “When it hurts so bad you don’t think you can stand it, I say, squeeze my hand.”

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411. “No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise. So you can’t go around assessing love by whether or not the sun rises. The sun doesn’t care about love. It just cares about rising.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

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415. “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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416. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

417. “There’s a huge hole in my heart where you used to be. When you were alive, I used to sometimes lie awake at night and listen to you snore, and I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have found you.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

418. “The finalists were Andrew Thomas and Jadran Petrovich, neither one of whom would set a record by winning. We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

419. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

420. “Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else.”

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421. “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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422. “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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423. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

424. “The downside of perfectionism is that you are so used to getting it right, you completely collapse when you get it wrong.”

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425. “And then I keep running. It quiets the voices in my head. It calms my nerves. It forces me to think of no one, nothing, but the sound of my breath, the banging of my heart inside my chest, and the fact that I must keep going.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

426. “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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427. “The combination of such a powerful woman and such a small and humble gesture is enchanting, to be sure.”

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428. “I keep thinking, I don’t cry on the court. I don’t cry on the court. But then I think, 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, I think. Just because you want to. And so, for the first time in decades, I stand in front of a roaring crowd and cry.”

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429. “I think as long as you’re happy and you’re doing something good with your life, it really doesn’t matter whether you went out and found the perfect thing or you chose what you knew you could make work for you.”

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430. “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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431. “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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432. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

433. “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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434. “We’re home,′ I said. This wasn’t my home. We’d never lived here together before. But she knew what I meant. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘We’re home.”

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435. “And no one was happy but everyone was kind of equally dissatisfied.”

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436. “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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437. “I insist that you be ruthless in your negotiating, Monique. Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”

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438. “You don’t need to find the perfect thing all the time. Just find one that works, and go with it.”

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439. “That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone “Forget about us. We will be okay,” when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten.”

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440. “Because you are not yet who you will one day be.”

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441. “Harry was one of the only men on the lot who didn’t stare directly at my chest. It actually bothered me, as if I’d been doing something wrong to not get his attention. It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”

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442. “Do you ever feel like everyone is always telling you who you are?“... “Like, people are acting as if they know better than you what you’re good at or who you are supposed to be?”

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

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445. “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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446. “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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447. “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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448. “It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”

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

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450. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid