TAYLOR JENKINS REID BOOK QUOTES. all sentences are taken from various of taylor jenkins reid's books. mentions of sex, marriage,cheating, divorce, soulmates and heartbreak. change names, locations and pronouns as you see fit.
"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."
"I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody."
"Never let anyone make you feel ordinary."
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
“Don't ignore half of me so you can fit me into a box. Don't do that.”
“I’m under absolutely no obligation to make sense to you.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”
“I spent half my time loving her and the other half hiding how much I loved her.”
“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
“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.”
“Passion is...it's 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.”
“If she knew how often I was thinking about her, she wouldn't feel lonely.”
And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn't end up with you.”
“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.”
“When you think of me, I hope it ruins rock 'n' roll”
“No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between.
“People are messy, and love can be ugly. I’m inclined to always err on the side of compassion.”
“Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.”
“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?”
“You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet.”
“We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.”
“We live in a world where exceptional women have to sit around waiting for mediocre men.”
“Just because something isn’t meant to last a lifetime doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant to be.”
“It hurts to care about someone more than they care about themselves.”
“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.”
“Nobody deserves anything,”
“It shouldn’t be wrong, to love you. How can it be wrong?”
“Isn’t it nice … once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.”
“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.”
“I am absolutely positive that I need you more than I’ve ever needed another living soul,”
“If there are all different types of soul mates, then you are one of mine.”
“And taking pride in your beauty is a damning act.
“Must be nice. To be able to be weak. I wouldn’t know.”
Better just to stay in the now and focus on what you can do better in the future.”
“Forgiveness is different from absolution.”
“There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space.”
“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.”
“It's the ones who never loved you enough that come to you when you can't sleep.
“Just because you can live without someone doesn’t mean you want to.”
“History is what you did, not what you almost did, not what you thought about doing. And I was proud of what I did”
“Alcoholism is a disease with many faces, and some of them look beautiful.”
I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better.”
“The truth often lies, unclaimed, in the middle.”
“I guess what I’m saying is it’s not all luck. It’s luck and being a son of a bitch.”
“But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you.”
“There was finally enough air within her for a fire to ignite.”
“Everything that made Daisy burn, made me burn. Everything I loved about the world, Daisy loved about the world. Everything I struggled with, Daisy struggled with. We were two halves. We were the same.”
“Love and pride don't mix.”
“I’m cynical and I’m bossy, and most people would consider me vaguely immoral.”
“When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don't love you... I was burning.”
“Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.”
“I have changed over time. That’s what people do.People aren’t stagnant. We evolve in reaction to our pleasures and our pains.”
“We are two people who are madly in love with our old selves. And that is not the same as being in love.”
“It’s a hard business, reconciling what the truth used to be with what the truth is now.”
But she was always the person I loved the most. She was always the person I would choose.
Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive. My family was my water. I picked water. I'll pick water every time. And I wanted Daisy to find her water. Because I couldn't be it
“My heart hurts when you hurt because you are my heart.”
“You don’t need to find the perfect thing all the time. Just find one that works, and go with it.”
“You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you’ll never make them again.”
“I'm not perfect. I'll never be perfect. I don't expect anything to be perfect. But things don't have to be perfect to be strong.
“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.”
“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.”
“The Chosen ones never know they are chosen. They think everyone gets a gold carpet rolled out for them.”
“Your whole world can be falling apart, she thought, but then Springsteen will start playing on the radio.”
“Drunk words are sober thoughts,”
“...if you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption.”
“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.”
“No one goes around throwing caution to the wind unless the wind is blowing their way.”
“You are happier to have known him than you are sad to have lost him.”
“Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.”
“It seems as if you see me exactly as I wish to be seen. There is no greater gift than that.”
“I've seen a lot of marriages where everyone is faithful and no one is happy.”
