287 Quotes by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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.

Here’s a lesson for everybody, take it from me: Handsome men that tell you what you want to hear are almost always liars.

Les hommes pensent souvent qu'ils méritent une médaille quand ils traitent les femmes comme des êtres humains.

C'était une sacrée leçon pour moi à cet âge-là: mériter un truc au lieu de l'obtenir sans rien faire. J'étais tellement habituée à ce qu'on me donne tout que je ne savais pas à quelle point c'est important pour l'âme de mériter quelque choses."- Daisy Jones

It occurs to me that it is the very thing that made her that will be the thing to finally take her down.

This isn’t what thirty is supposed to look like. It’s not what thirty is supposed to feel like. By thirty, you’re supposed to have things figured out, aren’t you? You’re not supposed to be questioning everything you’ve built your life on.

There are people who see a beautiful flower and rush over to pick it. They want to hold it in their hands, they want to own it. They want the flower’s beauty to be theirs, to be within their possession, their control.

All I’ve ever wanted was for you to be truly mine. But you’ve never been mine. Not really. I’ve always had to settle for one piece of you. While the world gets the other half. I don’t blame you. It doesn’t make me stop loving you. But I can’t do it. I can’t do it, Evelyn. I can’t live with my heart half-broken all the time.

the world doesn't give you things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that