Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

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

— 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. “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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406. “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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407. “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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408. “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

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

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410. “Flirting is probably just as much about falling in love with yourself as it is with someone else. It’s about seeing yourself through someone’s eyes and realizing there is plenty to like about yourself, plenty of reasons someone might hang on your every word.”

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

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412. “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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413. “I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture.”

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

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415. “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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416. “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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417. “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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418. “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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419. “I’m glad you have no one left. I’m glad there’s no one alive to love you.”

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

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421. “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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422. “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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423. “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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424. “Being wanted meant having to satisfy. At least, that was my view of it back then.– Evelyn Hugo.”

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425. “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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426. “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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427. “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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428. “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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429. “Mick Riva’s kid?” my dad said. “I cannot stand that guy.”

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430. “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.”

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

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433. “The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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

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435. “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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436. “All I could think was that he didn’t know about that line of freckles on her hip. I knew about them, and he didn’t.”

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

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

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439. “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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440. “Simply gone. Irrevocably and forever.”

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441. “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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442. “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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443. “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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444. “When you think of me, I hope it ruins rock ‘n’ roll.”

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445. “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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446. “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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447. “Women don’t need to be thin to be valuable.”

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448. “I regret that marriage, but I do not regret that dress.”

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449. “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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450. “Max had no intention of even trying to love me, that he was only capable of loving the idea of me.”

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