Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Don’t be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

402. “It had brought destruction. It would also bring renewal, rising from the ashes. The story of fire.”

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403. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

404. “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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

406. “I’m absolutely positive that I need you more than I’ve ever needed another living soul.”

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407. “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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408. “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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409. “Better yet, remind them that Evelyn Hugo never existed. She was a person I made up for them. So that they would love me. Tell them that I was confused, for a very long time, about what love was. Tell them that I understand it now, and I don’t need their love anymore. Say to them, “Evelyn Hugo just wants to go home. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover, and her best friend, and her mother.” Tell them Evelyn Hugo says good-bye.”.”

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410. “It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”

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411. “But I don’t think what you’re born into says anything about where you’re headed.”

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412. “So do yourself a favor and learn to grab life by the balls, dear – Evelyn Hugo.”

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413. “To love someone. To care for them. To throw your lot in with theirs and think, Whatever happens, it’s you and me.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

414. “You can’t love someone back to health and you can’t hate someone back to health and no matter how right you are about something, it doesn’t mean they will change their mind.”

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415. “Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.”

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416. “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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417. “Sometimes I worry Jesse could lead me into hell and I’d follow along, naively saying things like, “Is it getting hot to you?” and believing him when he told me it was fine.”

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

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419. “Amar a alguien no es ser perfecto, pasar solo buenos ratos y hacer el amor. Amar es perdonar, ser paciente, tener fe y, cada tanto, llevarte una buena hostia. Por eso es peligroso amar a la persona equivocada, amar a quien no lo merece.”

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420. “The world respects people who think they should be running it. I’ve never understood that, but I’m done fighting it. I’m here to be Frankie one day, maybe bigger than Frankie. To do big, important work that I am proud of. To leave a mark. And I’m nowhere near doing that yet.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

421. “Never let someone make you feel ordinary.”

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422. “You lack nothing at all. I hope you see that.”

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423. “If the rest of the world was silver, Daisy was gold.”

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424. “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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425. “I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture.”

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426. “Nobody deserves anything. It’s simply a matter of who’s willing to go and take it for themselves.”

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

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428. “My ass might as well have been a flat wall. You could hang a picture on it.”

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429. “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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430. “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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431. “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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432. “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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433. “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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434. “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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435. “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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436. “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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437. “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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438. “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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439. “I’ve never thought of myself as a force to be reckoned with. Maybe I should start thinking of myself that way; maybe I deserve to.”

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440. “I really didn’t think this was going to happen. I thought bad things only happened to people with hubris. They don’t happen to people like me, people that know how fragile life is, people that respect the authority of a higher power. But it has. It has happened to me.”

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441. “I know what it feels like to not want your father to look at you too closely, lest he decides he hates you and hits you or decides he loves you a little too much. And I know what it feels like to see your future ahead of you – the husband who’s really just a new version of your father, surrendering to him in bed when it’s the last thing you want to do, making only biscuits and canned corn for dinner because you don’t have money for rent.”

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442. “I knew it was imperative that I hide, and yet I did not believe I should have to. But accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking that it is just.”

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443. “And I said, “And no one’s gonna judge me if I end up sounding like a screeching cat?” And I’ll never forget, Billy leaned onto the button, and said, “If you were a cat, your screech would bring every cat running to you.”

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444. “It was then that I knew that the only time anyone would know anything true about my life was when I told them directly.”

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445. “People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”

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446. “They say that when you remember something, you are really remembering the last time you remembered it. Each time you recollect a memory, you change it, ever so slightly, shading it with new information, new feelings.”

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447. “It strikes me as a unique form of power to say your own name when you know that everyone in the room, everyone in the world, already knows it.”

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448. “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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449. “There is no failing or winning or losing, she says. This is life Lauren. This is love and marriage. If you stay married for a number of years and you have a happy time together and then you decide you don’t want to be married anymore and you choose to go be happy with someone else or doing something else, that’s not failure. That’s just life. That’s just how love is. How is that failure?”

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450. “Evelyn, I have been in love with you since 1959. I may not have always shown it, I may have let other things get in the way, but know that I have loved you that long. That I have never stopped. And that I never will.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid