Taylor Jenkins Reid Quotes

#1. I know it will be OK because everything is OK in the end. And if it's not OK, it's not the end. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#2. Everything that is possible happens. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#3. Just . . . just do me a favor."

"Anything."

"Don't stay with me if you want to be with him," he says. "Don't do that to me. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#4. You know this is called self-pity. You don't care. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#5. I loved you so much it sometimes burned in my chest. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#6. I have changed over time. That's what people do.

People aren't stagnant. We evolve in reaction to our pleasures and our pains. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#7. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#8. You feel better. Freer.

You realize this is called superstition.

You're OK with that.

You know that you will never truly be free of the grief. You know that it is something you must learn to live with, something you manage. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#9. You don't need to find the perfect thing all the time. Just find one that works, and go with it. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#10. Widows don't accidentally flash their underwear at anyone. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#11. It is hard to be so honest, so vulnerable, so exposed. But I find that it always leads you someplace freer. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#12. What I'm saying is that loving you - even if I'm not sure you love me - it's familiar territory," he said. "I've picked it right back up like riding a bike. And I can do it for a little while longer, if that's what you need. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#13. I've always loved you. I never stopped loving you. I'm incapable of it. I'm incapable of loving anyone but you. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#14. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#15. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#16. I think, maybe, this is what true love means.

Maybe true love is warming someone up from the cold, or tenderly brushing a hair away, because you care about them with every bone in your body even though you know what's between you won't last. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#17. It's just a small, good thing in a situation that totally fucking sucks. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#18. Don't ever let anyone tell you the most romantic part of love is the beginning. The most romantic part is when you know it has to end. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#19. I've read the articles that show up in all the women's magazines about marital ruts and turning the heat up in your marriage. They don't tell you anything real. They don't have any answers. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#20. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#21. It's funny, isn't it? So often men see betrayal in what you've done instead of how you feel. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#22. Just because you can live without someone doesn't mean you want to. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#23. I am stronger than when I knew them. I stand straighter. I am more patient. I hold fewer grudges. I am more thankful for what I have, less resentful for what I don't. I am less restless. I read a lot more books. I play the piano. I'm engaged. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#24. 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." I could make myself fit for him. He could make himself fit for me. But that's not true love. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#25. Do you ever get over loss? Or do you just find a box within yourself, big enough to hold it? Do you just stuff it in there, push it down, and snap the lid on it? Do you just work, every day, to keep the box shut? - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#26. When I was out in the real world, functioning in everyday society, and someone would say "Time is just a construct," I would roll my eyes and continue to check errands off my To Do list. But I was wrong, and they were right. Time means nothing. Never is that more clear than in a hospital bed. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#27. I decided that was my answer to questions of fate. I could go around asking myself what if x hadn't happened, and the answer would always be, "But it did. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#28. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#29. True love doesn't always last," I say. "It doesn't always have to be for a lifetime. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#30. How do I tell the truth when I don't know what it is? - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#31. A conversational roadblock. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#32. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#33. I know what it means to miss you, - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#34. Hollow and empty are terrible ways to feel when you're used to being full of joy. But it's not so bad when you're used to feeling full of pain. Hollow feels okay. Empty feels like a beginning. Which is nice, because for so long you have felt like you were at the end. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#35. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#36. To think that he left me because he met the one." "Why does that make you feel better?" I cannot possibly conceive of how that could make her feel better. "Because if I'm not his soul mate, then that means he's not mine. There's someone else out there for me. If he found his, maybe I'll find my own. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#37. He's scared he's about to lose the person he loves. There's not a fear on this earth more common than that. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#38. Ryan and I are two people who used to be in love.
What a beautiful thing to have been.
What a sad thing to be. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#39. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#40. He still, all these years later, shines brighter to me than other people. Even after I got over him, I was never able to extinguish the fire completely, as if it's a pilot light that will remain small and controlled, but very much alive. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#41. I nod but what I want to do is tell him about what Marie said, that she told me this isn't about who I love but rather who I am. I want to tell him that I've been asking myself that question over and over and it's starting to seem glaringly obvious that I am different from the person Jesse loves. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#42. She must have thought I was marrying just anybody and I needed a gazebo to make it spectacular. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#43. It all hurts so bad and feels so good that I'd swear my heart is bleeding. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#44. You wonder what it must be like to be a man, to be so confident that the final say is yours. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#45. If I want things to change, I have to change how I do things. And probably drastically. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#46. ... it's time for you to start to meet people. Any people. New people. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#47. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#48. Women don't need to be thin to be valuable. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#49. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#50. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#51. I wake up most mornings feeling refreshed and well rested, with an excitement about the day. And as long as you can say that, I think you're doing OK. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#52. But yes," I say, "I really do believe that. I believe I'm destined for something. We are all destined for something. And I believe that the universe, or God, or whatever you want to call it, I believe it keeps us on the right path. ... - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#53. Sometimes divorce isn't an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it's just two people waking up out of a fog. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#54. But sometimes you need to go get coffee more than you actually need coffee. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#55. Why have I spent so long settling for less when I know damn well the world expects more? - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#56. I want to try to do something myself, knowing that when I have nothing left, someone will take me the rest of the way - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#57. We don't know what would have happened. But whatever would have happened wasn't supposed to happen. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#58. I wanted to talk more, to spend more time with him, to hear more about him. I wanted more. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#59. You want to talk about the truth? The truth is you gave up on me. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#60. There is nothing more romantic than this. Holding the very person that you thought you lost, and knowing you'll never lose them again. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#61. I thought that maybe if I shoved the pain in there hard enough and I kept the box shut tight enough that the pain would evaporate on its own, that I'd open the box one day to find it was empty and all of the pain I thought I'd been carrying with me was gone. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#62. Hi," he says.

Just hearing that one word makes me feel as though I have gone back in time, to a part of my life when things made sense, when the world was fair. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#63. Do you think I don't deserve to grieve as much as someone who lost their son after forty years? Twenty-seven years is a short time to have a son. Just because it was short, it doesn't mean it didn't happen. It was just short. That's all. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#64. Knowing just how bad it was makes it harder to believe that I will be OK. But I suppose just because something is hard to understand, that doesn't make it any less true. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#65. Maybe I need the truth more than I need to hear what I want to hear. Maybe there is almost never a time when you don't need the truth. Or maybe it's just that you need the truth the most at times you think you don't want to hear it. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#66. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#67. What's that saying? Behind every gorgeous woman, there's a man sick of screwing her? Well, it works both ways. No one mentions that part. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#68. I'm overwhelmed by the stunning incredibility of the truth. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#69. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#70. It's almost terrifying, how much it defies logic and reason. What else do we know about the world that isn't true? - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#71. We can't say what we would do in other circumstances. We can only know what we will do with the ones we face. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#72. You won't realize just how young you are until you aren't that young anymore. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#73. We have to face those consequences head-on, for better or worse. We don't get to erase them just by saying we didn't mean to. Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices. I'm starting to think that when we don't own them, we don't own ourselves. Mark - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#74. This apartment is acting like nothing has changed. Everything has changed. I tell the walls he's gone. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#75. I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#76. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#77. I now understand why people sometimes describe the air as 'bitter cold'. The cold is not bitter. They are bitter about the cold. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#78. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#79. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#80. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#81. I love you," I say. I say it because I mean it right now, but I also say it for every single time I couldn't say it then. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#82. I'm just trying to tell you that your life will be very long with zigzags you can't imagine. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#83. Laughing and crying are so intrinsically tied together, spun of the same material, that it's hard to tell one from the other sometimes. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#84. I was waiting for someone that would sweep me off my feet and would be swept up by me in equal parts. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#85. You should know this about the rich: they always want to get richer. It is never boring, getting your hands on more money. When - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#86. We were in love, high on the novelty of marriage. The words husband and wife felt as if they had a shine to them. They were simply more fun to say than all the other words we knew. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#87. And I'm having a hard time remembering how I lived without him, how I could bear to look at a world that I thought he wasn't in, and why I thought I could ever love anyone the way I love him.

Because it has been him.

My whole life.

It has always, always been him. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#88. I just . . . it's sometimes hard not to associate moving forward with forgetting the past," I said. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#89. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#90. Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#91. 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? - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#92. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#93. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#94. No place has felt like home. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#95. I want to be with someone who lives for me. I want to be with someone who considers me the love of her life. I deserve that. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#96. And here's why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#97. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#98. We are two people who are madly in love with our old selves. And that is not the same as being in love. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#99. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

#100. 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. - Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid