287 Quotes by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Smash the patriarchy, sweetheart

Karen: Rod told me to wear low-cut shirts and I said, "Dream on," and that was about the end of that.

It's not all luck. It's luck and being a son of a bitch.

Page 35, Evelyn: 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.Page 147, Monique, after a hardball negotiation: I’m learning from the best.

But at some point, you have to recognize that you have no control over anybody and you have to step back and be ready to catch them when they fall and that's all you can do. It feels like throwing yourself to sea. Or, maybe not that. Maybe it's more like throwing someone you love out to sea and then praying they float on their own, knowing they might well drown and you'll have to watch.

And I’ve been really sad,” Nina added. “That I…that I meant so little to someone who had made me believe I meant so much.

Small boundaries broken, snapped like tiny twigs, so many that June barely noticed he was coming for the whole tree. With every move Mick made, as he held her, as he kissed her, June lost sight of the exact moment to speak up and then resigned herself to the pain of having never spoken up at all.

Denial is like an old blanket. I loved to get on under that thing and curl up and sleep.

If you are heartbroken right now, then I feel for you deeply, Evelyn says. That I have the utmost respect for. Thats the sort of thing that can split a person in two. But I wasnt heartbroken when Don left me. I simply felt like my marriage had failed. And those are very different things.