Top 500 Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to.”

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402. “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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403. “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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404. “Letting people love you and care for you is part of how you love and care for them.”

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405. “So how can I condemn the fourteen-year-old girl who did whatever she could to get herself out of town? And how can I judge the eighteen-year-old who got herself out of that marriage once it was safe to do so?”

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

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407. “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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408. “I had looked at other women besides Celia. I had pictured myself with other women besides her. But everyone, for what had felt like my whole life, had always been divided into “Celia” and “not Celia” Every other woman I considered striking up a conversation with might as well have had “not Celia” stamped on her forehead.”

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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. “And I like that. The idea that just by being me, I was doing all right.”

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411. “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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412. “I put my fork down. “That makes perfect sense, and I’m sorry if I was being glib.” Evelyn waves this off. “The whole culture is glib now. That’s the new thing.”

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

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415. “No! I can’t let you do that. That would be so lazy of me.” “That is lazy of you, but you’re my wife and I love you and I want you to have what you want.” He starts to get up.”

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416. “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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417. “It’s as if I was too wholesome to understand the unwholesome thoughts you had about me.”

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418. “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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419. “You destroyed me,” she said. “Twice now in our lives. I have spent years getting over you.”

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420. “People have so closely followed the most intricate details of the fake story of my life.”

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421. “Smash the patriarchy, sweetheart.”

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422. “He never stood on Sunset Boulevard, sun blinding his eyes, with his five best friends and a record contract in his back pocket.”

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

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424. “Having lost the battle, I resolved to win the war. So the next time I saw Ari Sullivan at the studio dining hall, I dropped my purse in front of him and “accidentally” gave him an eyeful as I bent down to pick it up. He made eye contact with me, and then I walked away, as if I wanted nothing from him, as if I had no idea who he was.”

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425. “Nothing means anything without you.”

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426. “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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427. “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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428. “DAISY: I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better.”

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429. “Isn’t that the very definition of power? Watching people kill themselves over something that means nothing to you?”

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430. “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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431. “People say that life keeps moving, but they don’t mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you.”

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432. “People don’t find it very sympathetic or endearing, a woman who puts herself first.”

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433. “They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly. A supernova is a short burst of extraordinary energy.”

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434. “I’ll always love you,” she said. “No matter who you are or what sort of life you want.”

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435. “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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436. “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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437. “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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438. “Who the hell was Evelyn Hugo in love with?”

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439. “If I’m going to tell you about my life, if I’m going to tell you what really happened, the truth behind all of my marriages, the movies I shot, the people I loved, who I slept with, who I hurt, how I compromised myself, and where it all landed me, then I need to know that you understand me. I need to know that you will listen to exactly what I’m trying to tell you and not place your own assumptions into my story.”

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440. “Because you’re a sexual woman, Evelyn. You’re sensual, and you’re beautiful, and you’re desirable. Don’t let them take that away from you. Don’t let them desexualize you. Don’t let your career be on their terms.”

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441. “Fortunately, painting me as some woman who couldn’t keep a husband sold more papers – for a longer period of time – than outing me. I’m not saying the gossip columnists printed what they knew to be a lie. I’m simply saying they were all too happy to believe the lie I was selling them. And of course, that’s the easiest lie to tell, one you know the other person desperately wants to be true.”

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442. “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.”

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443. “There should be a way to undo your fuckups. Not just redeem yourself for them but actually undo them, make them so that they never happened.”

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444. “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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445. “I wish someone had told me that love isn’t torture.”

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446. “I’m the one that got stuck with the big butt.”

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

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448. “Let me sum up that early tour for you: I was getting laid, Graham was getting high, Eddie was getting drunk, Karen was getting fed up, Pete was getting on the phone to his girl back home, and Billy was all five, at once.”

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

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450. “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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