Top 100 Penny Reid Quotes
#1. We are most awake to the world and to our own longings and desires when we suffer.
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#2. I'm not letting you leave this car
until we make it to second base. At least."
"Jess, you know how good I am at baseball, right?
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#3. As a child psychiatrist, I knew too much about the statistics of foster care - less than one percent graduate college with a bachelor's degree, more than fifty percent of foster kids end up homeless after reaching eighteen, and most are dead by twenty-six.
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#4. He reminded me of the Viking god Thor, if Thor had been a reclusive federal game warden from Texas with excellent manners.
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#5. He was so handsome I felt like filing a civil lawsuit against his parents, claiming punitive damages, pain and suffering to my psyche.
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#6. Oh . . ." I nodded faintly, my throat suddenly dry. I attempted a smile.
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#7. Furthermore, I preferred to only have cravings I could satisfy without the requirement or assistance of another person. This was, after all, the definition of self-reliance.
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#8. When we were locked and loaded, he led the way and we jogged in silence.
Actually, I jogged in silence, my feet and movements soundless. Greg jogged like a large man who used to be a Marine.
Crunch.
Crash.
Smash.
Snap.
Crack.
Amateur.
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#9. Kaitlyn Parker has popped Martin Sandeke's spooning cherry." I felt his smile grow just before he said, "It's only fair. I hope to pop your forking cherry.
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#10. I faced the hallway. My feet and my brain discussed the situation very, very briefly, a la:
Feet: He's right there.
Brain: Go get him.
Feet: Rodger that, we're on our way.
Then my feet moved me toward the open door of the office.
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#11. What if the hook-up girl is using you just as much as you're using her? What if she's just having fun? This is the problem with society. When a guy sleeps around, he's sowing oats. When a girl does it, she's a hook-up girl.
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#12. For all my bravado, when I fell, I fell hard. I fell fast. I fell stupid. I invested too much too soon. My capacity for giving was matched only by their capacity for taking.
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#13. Is this place home?"
"No, Duane .. You are.
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#14. If we were in Victorian England I would have called him dashing;but, since we lived in the 21st century I would have to settle for the wordier GQ model hot.
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#15. I kept my attention fixed on Quinn, blinked twice so he would come into focus,
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#16. you couldn't find
your way out of a small shed with a map, lighted signs, and an
escort
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#17. For some strange reason which should have alarmed me, I found him completely enchanting.
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#18. Allow me to take a moment to express my appreciation for Cletus Winston and his entrances.
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#19. Alex the waiter was on my Spank Naughty list in third place, right after Henry Calvill the actor, then Henry Calvill as Superman. He was proof that God existed, and that God loved straight women.
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#20. That is why I don't want a cell phone. I don't want a droopy fin.
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#21. I wasn't a hypocrite - well, everyone is a hypocrite, but I was trying hard to be less of one.
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#22. Sometimes doing nothing is what we're called to do, I think. Does that make sense? In any relationship, sometimes we play the lead, and sometimes we follow.
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#23. Soon all the leaves would fall, leaving this spot bare and brown. I felt like I was looking at the pinnacle of a particularly dazzling firework as it filled the night sky, just before it lost its shape and faded into darkness.
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#24. I hadn't seen Jennifer in a week. Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder.Whoever said that was a damn fool. Absence makes the heart suicidal. Take my heart for example. It hadn't stopped hurling itself against my ribs - at odd times, day or night - for a week.
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#25. I want you to belong to me and I want to belong to you. I
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#26. You don't need a big trip to have an adventure. There's plenty of adventure to be had right here.
If you can't have an adventure where you are, what makes you think you'll have an adventure anywhere else?
Truth or beard
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#27. Stop it." Cletus snapped his fingers in front of our faces. "I hate it when you two mind-meld through your eyeballs.
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#28. I was still tired, and this day had started out on a bizarre note and was circling the drain of strange.
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#29. I stared at him and, for the first time, I felt like I was really seeing him. He didn't love me. He used the word love like a weapon, as a means of control, as a way to ensure my blind obedience. He made it ugly. He
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#30. Being quiet can be louder than shouting.'" I
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#31. I saw his eyes widen and his mouth fall open and his expression change from stoic to stunned.
Quinn Sullivan had lost his composure.
He looked completely astonished and it took my entire slow march down the aisle for him to recover
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#32. I was down to my lacy black bra and matching, thankfully, modest boy shorts first.
Ashley was next. "Thank god I shaved yesterday!"
Sandra was stripped to her underwear soon after. "I didn't, but I need to. No one look at my downtown.
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#33. I had the abrupt sensation of falling, lost my breath, worried briefly that I'd never catch it again. The more we were together, the further and faster I fell. His gaze was steady yet scorching - which explained why I was melting beneath it.
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#34. You're Catholic, right? What do the Catholics say?"
Nico lifted an eyebrow and regarded Sandra with sparkly eyes. "I'm not the Lorax of Catholics. I don't speak for the trees of the faithful. That's why we have the Pope.
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#35. Almost immediately I told that voice to go eat shit and die.
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#36. You know those French impressionists; all they did was fornicate, drink absinthe, and play dominoes.
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#37. Jethro had been the disappointment.
I'd been the clown.
Individually we had become more.
But together and with each other, we didn't need to be our labels.
We were free to just be ourselves.
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#38. Undies on, undies on, high ho the dairy-o, I'm going to keep my undies on!
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#39. Greg's eyes narrowed on me, but this mouth curved to one side. I don't know ... that feels like something Hitler would say.
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#40. I once tried being dramatic when I was fourteen. My mother told me to add it to the calendar.
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#41. But love is the greatest adventure, where you risk the most for the greatest reward.
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#42. I love the fire most because of what it leaves behind ...
Ash. It leaves behind ash.
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#43. Feet are resilient, they're like women that way,
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#44. I could settle down here in Gangrene Valley. I could learn how to do woman's work. We could have all the babies. Side note, I hope they get his beard and my forearms.
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#45. Take romance for instance. Fictional women in romance novels never get their period. They never have morning breath. They orgasm seventeen times a day. And they never seem to have jobs with bosses.
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#46. You'll be tactile, and I'll be clingy, and we'll be very happy just as long as we sleep in a twin bed and call each other seventeen hundred times a day.
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#47. Musicians are like lightbulbs, they burn hot and bright, but can't be screwed more than once.
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#48. I might have been a little mesmerized for a moment as I took in the sight of her shapely backside. It was incredible. I just wanted to spank it and bite it and worship it and completely fucking defile it.
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#49. Nancy Danvish is a farmer." "But she's still a lady.
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#50. You don't know love?"
"No."
"But you're so certain that this is it, that what we have - what we're doing - that this is us in love?"
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Because it's what love should be.
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#51. There's no reason to be uncomfortable."
"I'm not uncomfortable. I'm just feeling weird, and I don't know how to un-weird myself."
"Well, don't un-weird yourself on my account. I like you weird.
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#52. How is your nose?" I asked, anxious and feeling guilty that I might have caused my friend harm.
"Fine. It's not broken. Thank God for that. It would be the fourth time, and I really like the job the last guy did resetting it.
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#53. Nothing screams lady-mind-porn like a hot, shirtless, sexy man doing dishes after giving her a reason to be exhausted.
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#54. We were both adulting like adult adults who behaved like adults.
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#55. You're wicked smart. And cool. And drama free, which is a huge deal. Drama free is at the top of my list these days. You can be intimidating."
"Me? But I'm a Hufflepuff.
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#56. Realization of his philandering arrived via an empty condom wrapper tucked in the back pocket of his jeans as I, the dutifully dumb girlfriend, decided to do him a favor by throwing some of his laundry in with mine.
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#57. I exist as many things. All of them are in love with you.
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#58. Of course I was wearing my compelling red dress, thigh-high stockings, borrowed zebra print stilettos, black pushup bra, and nothing else.
This was war.
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#59. Boy bands are sent by God to aid women of all ages in their quest to avoid reality, but specifically to trick young women into believing that males think about topics other than sex.
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#60. I was always running after her, but this time I wasn't going to let her get away.
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#61. Proposing is like giving someone your dick and a sharp knife, then waiting to see what they do next.
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#62. The apartment was a disaster.
A consummate disaster.
If mess-making were an Olympic sport, this mess would have won the bronze medal, maybe the silver.
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#63. You underestimate how deeply you cut when your intentions carry no knives.
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#64. I admired him from afar, like a really amazing piece of art that you only see in photographs or behind glass in a museum. So we affectionately referred to him as Handsome McHotpants; more accurately, Elizabeth and I knighted him Sir Handsome McHotpants one night after drinking too many mojitos.
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#65. He smiled, fitting his hand in mine. "Parker, I love you."
"Sandeke, I see your love, and I raise you a secret handshake.
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#66. I had reclusive tendencies for a reason, I couldn't be trusted to live in the world and make decisions on my own.
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#67. No. I have plenty of reason. But without honor and goodness, reason isn't worth much.
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#68. She was a superhero. She was my hero. Therefore, moments when she allowed herself to display vulnerability were distressing. It was like watching Superman struggle through a bout of kryptonite exposure.
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#69. If he couldn't give me everything then I wanted nothing.
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#70. She was also wearing brown high-heeled boots, the kind that don't make sense.
Boots are for working, for walking through wet mud, for keeping feet from getting shredded by brokenglass and falling machine parts.Boots with spiked heels were just as practical as sandals with steel toes
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#71. I finally shook myself out of my reticence.
He was just a boy. He was harmless. He had a girlfriend who was gorgeous and sociable. I would calibrate my smiles and interactions to friendship or acquaintance level. No big deal.
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#72. Although it seemed like such a simple thing, for the first time in my life I realized the importance of an introduction. An introduction by a mutual friend buys instant credibility, especially when the mutual friend was universally liked - as
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#73. ... smart, funny, sweet, nice to his family, good looking in an adorable kind of way.
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#74. And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you've been assigned by people who might love you, but don't really know who you are anymore.
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#75. Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like.
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#76. I liked this about Drew: always to the point when talking about business, but always philosophical when talking about life. Attending his birthday party had been a priority since I met him four years ago
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#77. I don't like to judge people.
I love it.
Writing people completely off was liberating
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#78. Why did you hide? Did they make fun of you?"
I shook my head. "No. They ignored me. I think I hid because hiding made it my choice. You can't be ignored if no one can see you.
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#79. If they don't learn about launching rockets at home, then they'll just learn about it on the streets." I glowered at him. "That sounds like something Hitler would say.
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#80. Touching her now, after her gratifyingly loud and spectacularly animated release, calmed me even as it stoked a frenzied fire of need. I wanted to touch her everywhere. And for always. What
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#81. Agree!" This came from Sandra. "Roses are red, violets are blue, rhyming is hard. Wine.
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#82. They've got to have backups on the cloud, or the mist, or whatever it's called.
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#83. aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something... and gained something else.
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#84. Don't change a thing. God, Jess. Don't change a single thing. Be wild for me, be reckless. I love your kind of wild.
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#85. Little did he know, I possessed no feminine wiles. Only the willies and the hibby jibbies.
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#87. I scoffed, enjoying myself far too much, my heart and stomach fluttering together, in cahoots like squealing fangirls.
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#89. Call it wine, call it Quinn-sniff induced obscurity
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#90. It is a universally acknowledged, inalienable truth that a knitter faced with the unadorned neck, head, and hands of a person she cares for feels an overwhelming compulsion to smother that person in fancy hand-knits.
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#91. They're stackable, like Tetris. All beverages should be stackable.
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#92. We can't change the past. But we can change how much importance we allow it to have over our future.
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#93. You've shown me joy where before I saw only despair. You've taught me hope where before I knew only hopelessness. I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours. And I'll work every day of my life to deserve you.
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#94. I'd always been a big fan of kissing when done right.
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#95. He was hot like lava and sexy like cake. Wait, like lava cake. Yum.
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#96. I tried to shrug, but I'm sure
it looked like a minor seizure.
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#97. What are you!? A Disney princess?" Ashley's annoyance powered semi-shout surprised the room. She dropped her knitting to her lap and glared at me, apparently sincerely perturbed by Janie's revelation. "Get over yourself! We all have to fall in love more than once - even if it's with the same person.
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#98. After a short silence, he said, "We grew up together, we're in love, and she's going to marry me."
Quinn choked on the water he'd just brought to his lips, drawing everyone's attention to him. He recovered quickly, replaced the glass, and stared at Nico as though he were an alien
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#99. Yes?" "My heart keeps discovering new ways to love you," he whispered, like it was a secret. A magnificent, beautiful, perfect secret.
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#100. Women were more than the status of their hymen or their dress size.
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