Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “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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402. “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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403. “As I tell my mom I love her and hang up the phone, I feel proud of myself, smug even. I have no idea that in less than a week, Evelyn Hugo will finish her story, and I’ll find out what this has all been about, and I will hate her so much that I’ll be truly afraid I might kill her.”

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404. “I had been living in this world where I thought I could have this closeness with Celia and this distance with Don and neither of them would need anything else from anyone else.”

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405. “When you sit there and wish things had happened differently, you can’t just wish away the bad stuff. You have to think about all the good stuff you might lose, too.”

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406. “What I actually remember most about her is the emptiness she left behind. There was this sense, within the house, that there used to be someone else here. But now it was just my father and me.”

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407. “You should be predictable and then do something unpredictable, and they’ll love you forever.”

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408. “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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409. “One of the great injustices of this rigged world we live in is that women are considered to be depleting with age and men are somehow deepening.”

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410. “It makes you want to cry, the simplicity of it, the smallness of it. You have worked so hard for a life so grand. And now all you want are the smallest freedoms. The daily peace of loving plainly.”

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411. “There’s only so long you can live your life while it’s being dictated to you by somebody else, you understand? And I don’t care how much money is in it for me, I’m not somebody’s lackey. I’m not some indentured servant. I’m a person.”

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412. “I just want to know you’re okay. I want to know that you didn’t suffer. I want to believe that you are in a better place, that you are happy and have all the things in life that you loved, with you. I want to believe that you and your father are together. Maybe at a barbecue in heaven, eating hot dogs. I know that’s not the case. I know that you are gone. But I don’t know how to live with that knowledge.”

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413. “This beautiful thing you’ve been happy to simply appreciate, well, now it’s yours to own.”

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414. “It was inevitable wasn’t it? The small mistakes and heartbreaks of guiding a life. His mother had screwed up as much as she’d succeeded.”

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

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

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417. “Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.”

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418. “You think too much,” he says. “That’s your problem. You’re trying too hard to find the perfect answer when an answer will do.”

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419. “Por eso es peligroso amar a la persona equivocada, amar a quien no lo merece. Tienes que estar con alguien que se merezca tu fe y tienes que ser merecedor de la fe de alguien. Eso es algo sagrado.”

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420. “I’m just going to do my best and live under the assumption that if there are things in this life that we are supposed to do, if there are people in this world we are supposed to love, we’ll find them. In time. The future is so incredibly unpredictable that trying to plan for it is like studying for a test you’ll never take. I’m OK in this moment.”

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421. “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.”

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422. “He told me he wanted to do work that invigorated him. He said, “You have to do that, too, Monique. 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 eight, we’d lost him.”

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423. “She’s going to be the girl bleeding in a beautiful dress until it kills her. I felt lost, sad, depressed, sick. I felt really hopeless but also like I didn’t have the luxury of giving up.”

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424. “You can’t capture love in a bottle. You can’t hold on to it with both hands and force it to stay with you.”

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425. “I hope one day you find someone who feels like the other half of you.”

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426. “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. Over the past years without him, my memories of Jesse have become a copy of a copy of a copy. Without meaning to, I have highlighted the parts of him that stood out to me, and the rest have faded away.”

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427. “Pete said it best. “Rock ’n’ roll is about getting it on with a girl for the first time. Not about making love to your wife.” And that was Pete saying that! He was as whipped as Billy.”

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428. “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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429. “That was how it was with Celia. When you denied her what she wanted, when you hurt her, she made sure you hurt, too.”

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430. “Romantic love is a beautiful thing under the right circumstances. But those circumstances are so specific and rare, aren’t they? It’s rare that you love the person who loves you, that you love only the person who loves only you. Otherwise, somebody’s heartbroken. But I guess that’s why true love is so alluring in the first place. It’s hard to find and hold on to, like all beautiful things. Like gold, saffron, or an aurora borealis.”

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431. “Que puedas vivir sin una persona no significa que quieras hacerlo.”

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432. “Lately, it feels like my whole life has a similar feeling to when you check the clock on a Saturday and realize it’s already half past four.”

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433. “Nina, her entire life, had been programmed to accept. Accept that your father left. Accept that your mother was gone. Accept that you must take care of your siblings. Accept that the world wants to lust after you. Accept Accept Accept.”

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434. “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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435. “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.”

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

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

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438. “Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”

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439. “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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440. “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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441. “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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442. “You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”

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443. “You can’t put it in your heart if it’s not there. And you can’t pull it out of your heart if it is.”

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444. “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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445. “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.”

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

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

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448. “I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture. Because I thought love was this thing that was supposed to tear you in two and leave you heartbroken and make your heart race in the worst way. I thought love was bombs and tears and blood. I did not know that it was supposed to make you lighter, not heavier. I didn’t know it was supposed to take only the kind of work that makes you softer. I thought love was war.”

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449. “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.”

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450. “She still ached for every version of Frances. But to love Frances was to be always saying goodbye to the girl Frances used to be and falling in love again with the girl Frances was becoming. She missed every Frances she had known. But oh, this Frances. This lanky, gangly, whip-smart Frances, with her ears pierced and a Cyndi Lauper T-shirt on, this Frances was a gift Joan would one day miss, too.”

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