Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid is an American author most known for her novels The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Daisy Jones & The Six, and Malibu Rising. (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
“Acceptance is a powerful drug.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“After I read them, I sat in the living room by our record player and put on Carly Simon and sobbed. Then I moved on to Daisy Jones and Carole King. All so easy to cry to, if you’re in the mood.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“And taking pride in your beauty is a damning act. Because you allow yourself to believe that the only thing notable about yourself is something with a very short shelf life.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“And then his voice breaks, and the tears fall from his eyes, and he truly looks at me for maybe the first time in a year. He repeats himself, slowly and deliberately. ‘This is the saddest moment of my life.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“And then, for some masochistic and stupid reason, we had sex again.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“As if being in love is an excuse for anything.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“As my husband has letters from your wife, I assume she must have letters from him. As I try to decide what to do about my husband’s betrayal, I find myself desperate to know why he would do this. So if you find any letters in your home from Dr. Kenneth Allsop of Encino, California, or his office at the Dermatology Center of Los Angeles, I would truly appreciate you forwarding me copies.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Be wary of men with something to prove.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Because ever since I heard he was back, I haven’t been happy for you. Or even really that happy for him. I’ve been heartsick. For me.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“But accepting that something is true isn’t the same as thinking that it is just.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it’s time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“But sometimes you need to go get coffee more than you actually need coffee.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Change, at least in my life, is more often than not a slow and steady stream. It’s not an avalanche. It’s more of a snowball effect. I probably shouldn’t pontificate about my life using winter metaphors. I’ve only seen real snow three times.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“Delights can be hard to come by recently, so I truly cherish getting to laugh with you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Do you ever feel like your life got away from you somehow?” (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Do yourself a favor and learn how to grab life by the balls, dear. Don’t be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Don’t ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don’t do that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Evelyn looks at me with purpose. “Do you understand what I’m telling you? When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Everybody wants somebody to hold up the right mirror.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“Falling out of love with someone you still like feels exactly like lying in a warm bed and hearing the alarm clock. No matter how good you feel right now, you know it’s time to go.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“Family is found…whether it be blood or circumstance or choice, what binds us does not matter. All that matters is that we are bound.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“From experience, I can tell you that if you go around trying to figure out what’s fair in life or whether you deserve something or not, that’s a rabbit hole that is hard to climb out of.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“Good things don’t wait until you’re ready. Sometimes they come right before, when you’re almost there. And I figured when that happens, you can let them pass by like a bus not meant for you. Or you can get ready. So I got ready.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“Guilt is a feeling I’ve never made much peace with. I find that when it rears its head, it brings an army. When I feel guilty for one thing, I start to see all the other things I should feel guilty for.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“He is next to me but not beside me. We are both in this bed, but we are not sharing it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“He’s never coming back. Whether you go or you don’t go. So get in the car, because it’s the last thing you can do with him.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“How were you supposed to change- in ways both big and small- when your family was always there to remind you of exactly the person you apparently signed an ironclad contract to be?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“I am not going to sit around sweating my ass off just so men can feel more comfortable. It’s not my responsibility to not turn them on. It’s their responsibility to not be an asshole.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“I am very confused right now. In fact, I’m so confused that I’m confused about how confused I am.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I breathe in sharply, and then I breathe out slowly. Life is just a series of breaths in and out. All I really have to do in this world is breathe in and then breathe out, in succession, until I die. I can do that. I can breathe in and out.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I don’t believe that being in love absolves you of anything. I no longer believe that all’s fair in love and war. I’d go so far as to say your actions in love are not an exception to who you are. They are, in fact, the very definition of who you are.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I don’t think that true love means your only love. I think true love means loving truly. Loving purely. Loving wholly.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I don’t want to be back in this bed. I want to be up and moving and living and doing and seeing.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I don’t know. We can’t say what we would do in other circumstances. We can only know what we will do with the ones we face.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“I guess I find it pretty easy to look like nothing is happening when everything has changed.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I have not bounced back nicely. I’ve just learned to impersonate the living.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“I have not included your wife’s letters here as that seems callous. But if you do wish to see them, I will, of course, do you the same favor I am requesting of you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“I have to let you go and I have to hope that you come back to me.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I just sometimes hoped that I could have something more than just fine. Someone who made me feel like I hung the moon. But I sort of stopped believing that existed, I think.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I know it will be OK because everything is OK in the end. And if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices and they led me somewhere else, led me to someone else. And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I look at my face and I think that I had someone who loved this face. And now he’s gone. And now no one loves my face anymore.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“I loved you so much that I thought you were the meaning of my life….I thought that people were put on earth to find other people, and I was put here to find you. To find you and touch your skin and smell your breath and hear all your thoughts. But I don’t want to be meant for someone like you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I now understand why people sometimes describe the air as ‘bitter cold’. The cold is not bitter. They are bitter about the cold.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I realized that I had stopped seeing him as someone who, you know, was attractive, I guess. I was taking him for granted in that way. And now that I know that he is dating, it’s very clear to me what I had when I had it”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“I said it even though I knew it would hurt her to hear it. I had to say it because of how much it hurt to feel it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I think I’m heading into a time in my life where words and labels will lose their meaning. It will only be the intent behind them that will matter.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I think people are so terrified of being in our position that they lose all ability to even speak to us.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“I think the difference between an actress and a star is that the star feels comfortable being the very thing the world wants her to be.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it’s not faith, right?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was like me. I don’t believe in soul mates anymore and I’m not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who’s suffering from the same stuff you are.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“I want so badly to take all her words and fit them like the pieces of a puzzle into the hole in my heart”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“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
Maybe in another Life
“I was fishing for information that might break my heart. A flaw of the human condition.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I was going to wake up early tomorrow and go into the bathroom and write ‘I love you’ on the mirror with a bar of soap.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“I was gorgeous, even at fourteen. Oh, I know the whole world prefers a woman who doesn’t know her power, but I’m sick of all that. I turned heads.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I was so used to being given things that I didn’t know how important it is for your soul to earn them.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I’m overwhelmed by the stunning incredibility of the truth.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’ve always been struck by the idea that you can’t be all that happy something has returned if it doesn’t go away in the first place.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“I’ve always loved you. I never stopped loving you. I’m incapable of it. I’m incapable of loving anyone but you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who’s suffering from the same stuff you are.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things. And probably drastically.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“If she knew how often I was thinking about her, she wouldn’t feel lonely.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“If you come to me and ask me for advice, and then you don’t take my advice, and it blows up in your face exactly like I told you it would, what do you expect me to say?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“If you love someone, if you think you could make them happy for the rest of your life together, then nothing should stop you. You should be prepared to take them as they are and deal with the consequences. Relationships aren’t neat and clean. They’re ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them. That’s what I think. I think if you truly love someone, you accept the circumstances; you don’t hide behind them.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“If you’ve never been smacked across the face, let me tell you something, it is humiliating. Mostly because your eyes start to tear up, whether you mean to be crying or not. The shock of it and the sheer force of it stimulate your tear ducts. There is no way to take a smack across the face and look stoic. All you can do is remain still and stare straight ahead, allowing your face to turn red and your eyes to bloom. ”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“I’m just trying to tell you that your life will be very long with zigzags you can’t imagine. You won’t realize just how young you are until you aren’t that young anymore.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“I’m learning not to read too much into good things. I’m learning just to appreciate the good while you have it in your sights. Not to worry so much about what it all means and what will happen next.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I’m not saying that I didn’t care. I cared a lot. I’m saying that when you really love someone, sometimes the things they need may hurt you, and some people are worth hurting for.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“I’m saying that when you really love someone, sometimes the things they need may hurt you, and some people are worth hurting for.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“In general, I find that when you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, the best course of action is to act as if you are absolutely supposed to be doing it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“Isn’t it nice… once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“It breaks my heart to be loved like this, to be loved so purely that I’m capable of breaking a heart.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“It doesn’t matter if we don’t mean to do the things we do. It doesn’t mean if it was an accident or a mistake. It doesn’t even matter if we think this is all up to fate. Because regardless of our destiny, we still have to answer for our actions. We make choices, big and small, every day of our lives, and those choices have consequences.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“It hurts to care about someone more than they care about themselves.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“It is funny the crazy things our brains make up to save us from the truth.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“It just goes to show that if you tell a woman her only skill is to be desirable, she will believe you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It occurs to me that my memory of him was a poor substitute for the real thing.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It would feel good to work at the Benjamin S. Ross Foundation for Not Eating Fruity Pebbles. But I know there isn’t actually anything to rally against for him.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“It’s a hard business, reconciling what the truth used to be with what the truth is now.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s a scary thought, isn’t it? That every single person on this planet could lose their one true love and live to love again? It means the one you love could love again if they lost you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“It’s always been fascinating to me how things can be simultaneously true and false, how people can be good and bad all in one, how someone can love you in a way that is beautifully selfless while serving themselves ruthlessly.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“It’s empowering to be the one holding someone else up. It makes you feel strong. Maybe even stronger than you are.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“It’s like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“It’s very easy to rationalize what you’re doing when you don’t know the faces and the names of the people you might hurt. It’s very easy to choose yourself over someone else when it’s an abstract.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“I’ve heard urban legends about the safety of a mother’s arms and that sounds pretty good right now.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“Just as 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
Malibu Rising
“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
Malibu Rising
“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Knowing you did the right thing doesn’t mean you’re happy about it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Laughing and crying are so intrinsically tied together, spun of the same material, that it’s hard to tell one from the other sometimes.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“Life is long and full of an infinite number of decisions. I have to think that the small ones don’t matter, that I’ll end up where I need to end up no matter what I do.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“Look at the things we are capable of in the name of the people we love.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“Lying has just become so much easier than telling the truth. I don’t remember when things got so hard. But life has been a matter of keeping our heads above water for years now.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Make no mistake: I do love you. Just because I don’t feel the love in my heart doesn’t mean I don’t know it’s there. I know it’s there. I’m leaving because I’m going to find it. I promise you that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“My heart is truly broken. And I know that even if it mends, it will look different, feel different, beat differently.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“My heart was never in the craft of acting, only in the proving. Proving my power, proving my worth, proving my talent.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“My mother has always told me that I have more opportunities, as a woman of my generation, than she ever had. She made it seem like I had an obligation to use them how she would have.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn’t gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Nina understood, maybe for the first time, that letting people love you and care for you is part of how you love and care for them.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“No amount of advice or lectures or trying to chain somebody down ever stopped anyone who didn’t want to stop in the first place.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“No matter who you choose to go down the road with, you’re gonna get hurt. That’s just the nature of caring about someone. No matter who you love, they will break your heart along the way.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Of course, that’s the easiest lie to tell, one you know the other person desperately wants to be true.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Often, I feel overwhelmed by this sinking feeling in my heart that I will never be enough.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not… They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Passion is…its fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“People say it’s hard to be away from the people you love but it was so hard to be right next to him.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“People say that life keeps moving, but they don’t mention that it does stop sometimes, just for you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth. When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them, when you stand in front of them bare and their response is ‘you’re safe with me’- that’s intimacy.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Pictures speak very loudly. In general, we can almost never shake what we see with our eyes.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Please never forget that the sun rises and sets with your smile. At least to me it does. You’re the only thing on this planet worth worshipping.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Protect your happiness at all costs.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Relationships are complex. People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Sex is just an act. Sexuality is a sincere expression of desire and pleasure.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“She could see her mother in her body, could feel her in her heart, could sense her in everything she did, sometimes. The older she got, the more obvious it became.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She had to choose what, of the things she inherited from the people who came before her, she wanted to bring forward. And what, of the past, she wanted to leave behind.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She had written something that felt like I could have 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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“She knew it was up to her to say what had to be said. To do what had to be done. 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. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can’t stand to even think about, all must live inside of you. You must be capable of everything.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She knew that she could not sustain her life fueled only by the memories of those she once loved. Loss would not propel her forward. She had to go out and live. She had to find new people.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“She was a woman, after all. Living in a world created by men. And she had long known that assholes protect their own. They are faithful to no one but surprisingly protective of each other.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“Some marriages aren’t really that great. Some loves aren’t all-encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren’t that good together to begin with. Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Sometimes I think mine might turn to stone any minute now, and yet every time I see you I soften, reminded of how you still choose kindness over anger at every step.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“Sometimes I worry I’ll never find a place to call home.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“Sometimes people do things because they are furious or because they are upset or because they are out for blood. And those things can hurt. But what hurts the most is when someone does something out of apathy. They don’t care about you the way they said they did back in college. They don’t care about you the way they promised to when you got married. They don’t care about you at all.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Sometimes reality comes crashing down on you. Other times reality simply waits, patiently, for you to run out of the energy it takes to deny it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Sometimes you should just take the potatoes and say thank you and then throw them in the trash when Mom’s not looking.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Sometimes you want to forget the fact that you’re alone, and instead, you want to relish the feeling that someone understands you, someone is fighting the same battle that you are. Also, you know, sometimes you just want to feel wanted and desired. Sometimes you want to feel what it feels like with someone new. Sometimes you forget about whether you’re ready to do something, and you just let yourself do it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“Taking pride in your beauty is a damning act. Because you allow yourself to believe that the only thing notable about yourself is something with a very short shelf life.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Thank you for understanding that I am sometimes a total bitch.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“That is the thing about the water, it is not yours to control. You are at the mercy of nature. That’s what makes surfing feel like more than sport: It requires destiny to be on your side, the ocean must favor you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone “Forget about us. We will be okay,” when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“That love makes you do crazy things, that sometimes you have to do things that seem wrong from the outside but you know are right.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“That’s what you do when you want something. You don’t look for reasons why it won’t work. You look for reasons why it will.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“The difference between life and death could be as simple and as uncomfortably slight as a step you take in either direction. Which means that I am here today, alive today, because I made the right choices, however brief and insignificant they felt at the time. I made the right choices.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“The sun rises the next day after mothers lose their babies, after men lose their wives, after countries lose wars. 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. 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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“The truth is, praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“The world respects people who think they should be running it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“There is a certain freedom in marrying a man when you aren’t hiding anything.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“There is no failing or winning or losing … 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 somebody else or doing something else, that’s not a failure. That’s just life. That’s just how love is. How is that a failure?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“There is nothing more romantic than this. Holding the very person that you thought you lost, and knowing you’ll never lose them again.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“There is so much guilt lying around here, just waiting for me to pick it up and carry it with me. There is so much I can torture myself about.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“There was finally enough air within her for a fire to ignite.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There was no end to the stories people would tell about what happened at the Riva party, some of which Nina wasn’t even sure were true.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“There’s this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“Things happen in your life that you can’t possibly imagine. But time goes on and time changes you and the times change and the next thing you know, you’re smack in the middle of a life you never saw coming.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“This apartment is acting like nothing has changed. Everything has changed. I tell the walls he’s gone.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“This is the age we live in; we are able to have nostalgia for things made yesterday.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“True love doesn’t always last,” I say. “It doesn’t always have to be for a lifetime.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“We all can’t go around treating people like dog shit and then expecting that a simple I’m sorry erases it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“We are tied to each other. We can hate and love, miss and loathe each other all within the same breath. We can never want to see each other again while never wanting to let go.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“We are two people who are madly in love with our old selves. And that is not the same as being in love.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“We don’t know what would have happened. But whatever would have happened wasn’t supposed to happen.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“We loved each other and we lost each other. And now, even though we still love each other, the pieces don’t fit like they used to.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“We’re all whores, really, in some way or another. At least in Hollywood.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“We’re both playing the same game with each other. We want to understand, we want to make the other person feel understood, but the truth is we’re on opposite sides of the street right now, looking over at each other and imagining what life must be like.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“What else could you want in a person other than kindness and humor? I’m not sure anything else really matters to me.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“What’s the point of a promise anyway? How can we expect people to stick to their word about anything when the world around us is so arbitrary, unreliable, and senseless?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“When someone is out on a ledge like that, especially when you’re the one that coaxed them out there in the first place, you don’t dare do anything to unbalance them.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“When there’s 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 distance or weakness. You must do it all. All of the ugliness, the sadness, the things most people can’t stand to even think about, all must live inside you. You must be capable of anything.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Malibu Rising
“When you dig just the tiniest bit beneath the surface, everyone’s love life is original and interesting and nuanced and defies any easy definition.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“When you don’t have anyone to witness how dirty you are, you find out how truly dirty you are willing to be.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“When you have everything, someone else getting a little something feels like they’re stealing from you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“When you lose someone you love, it’s hard to imagine that you’ll ever feel better. That, one day, you’ll manage to be in a good mood simply because the weather is nice or the barista at the coffee shop on the corner remembered your order. But it does happen. If you’re patient and you work at it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“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. Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen. The world doesn’t give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“When you’ve been bested, sometimes it’s good to recognize it and move on.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Why do we do this? Why do we undervalue things when we have them? Why is it only on the verge of losing something that we see how much we need it?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“Women don’t need to be thin to be valuable.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“You and I aren’t going to spend our lives together,” Jesse says. “But I finally understand that that doesn’t take away any of the beauty of the fact that we were right for each other once.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“You are happier to have known him than you are sad to have lost him.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“You are the first thing I think of when I wake up and the last thought I have as I go to bed.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“You asked how I hide it all. I don’t know. I guess I find it pretty easy to look like nothing is happening when everything has changed.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“You can be sorry about something and not regret it,” Evelyn says.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you’ll never make them again.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“You can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You can’t be all that happy something has returned if it doesn’t go away in the first place.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“You can’t control another person. It doesn’t matter how much you love them. 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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“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.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“You don’t need to find the perfect thing all the time. Just find one that works, and go with it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in another Life
“You don’t tie yourself to something unless you’re scared you might float away.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“You gave me hope and perspective and confidence. Right before you gave me my baby.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair
“You had flirted with other men and he’d seen it, or he had flirted with other women and you’d seen it, if you had spent a few weekends apart from each other sometimes, given each other some space now and again, maybe you wouldn’t need a whole year apart now. That’s all I’m saying.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“You have that someone. That’s all I’ve been trying to say. Don’t give up on him just because he bores you. Or doesn’t pick up his socks.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
“You have to find a job that makes your heart feel big instead of one that makes it feel small.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You have to have one person in your life that you know would never do anything to steer you wrong. They may disagree with you. They could even break your heart, from time to time. But you have to have one person, at least, who you know will always tell you the truth.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones & The Six
“You have to push people’s boundaries and not feel bad about it. No one is going to give you anything if you don’t ask for it.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You know damn well what you are. How you affect the people around you. I’d kill for a chest like that and full lips like yours. You make people think of undressing you just by showing up in a room fully clothed.” (Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes)
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You start to understand that grief is chronic. That it’s more about remission and relapse than it is about a cure. What that means to you is that you can’t simply wait for it to be over. You have to move through it, like swimming in an undertow.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
One True Loves
“You won’t realize just how young you are until you aren’t that young anymore.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You loved him. He loved you. You believed in each other. That is what you lost. It doesn’t matter whether it’s labeled a husband or a boyfriend. You lost the person you love. You lost the future you thought you had.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Forever, Interrupted
“You, of all people, should know that you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“You’re not really famous if anybody still likes you.”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Your love life should bring you love. If it doesn’t, no matter how hard you try, if you are honest and fair and good, and you decide it’s over and you need to go find love somewhere else, then…what more can the world ask of you?”
Taylor Jenkins Reid
After I Do
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