Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

402. “I’m glad you have no one left. I’m glad there’s no one alive to love you.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

404. “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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405. “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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406. “When you find that rare person who really knows who you are, and they still don’t love you.”

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

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

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409. “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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410. “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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411. “I love you as much as I’m willing to love anybody.”

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412. “Nothing means anything without you.”

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413. “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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414. “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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415. “That’s when I started to take a liking to Celia St. James.”

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416. “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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417. “But knowing you’re good can only take you so far. At some point, you need someone else to see it, too. Appreciation from people you admire changes how you see yourself.”

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418. “Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years,” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.”

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419. “It just goes to show how alike failure and success can appear. Sometimes only you know the truth.”

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420. “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.”

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

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422. “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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423. “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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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. “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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426. “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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427. “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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428. “Alan Thomas was his new agent. Alan had been encouraging Don to leave Sunset Studios, to go freelance. A lot of actors were navigating their careers on their own. It was leading to big paychecks for big stars. And Don was getting antsy. He kept talking about making more for one picture than his parents had made their whole careers.”

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429. “It scared me that the only thing between this moment of calm and the biggest tragedy of my life was me choosing not to do it.”

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430. “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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431. “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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432. “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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433. “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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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. “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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436. “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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437. “I feel like I spent my entire life loving her.”

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438. “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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439. “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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440. “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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441. “It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”

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

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443. “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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444. “I liked writing about real people. I liked finding evocative ways of interpreting the real world. I liked the idea of connecting people by sharing their stories.”

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

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446. “You know what you want, and you go after it. I don’t think there is anyone in this town doubting that Evelyn Hugo is going to be the biggest star in Hollywood one of these days. And that’s not just because you are something to look at. It’s because you decided you wanted to be huge, and now you’re going to be. I want to be friends with a woman like that.”

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

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

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450. “But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you, knowing you’re doing a little something in your community.”

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