“Ethel wrote with steady, stalwart sincerity of Uncle Joe’s gout and her” — Penny Reid Truth Copy Share Image
“I decided, as I succumbed to sleep, that men should come with manuals, subtitles, and reset buttons.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“He was the dehydrated horse. He had to drink water himself. He had to want it.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“If I were a function, you would be my asymptote. I always tend toward you.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“he six Winston boys had inherited their father’s ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women.” — Penny Reid Parenting Copy Share Image
“What?” I whispered, suspicious, still fighting my flare of hormones. Or, more precisely, whoremones. That’s” — Penny Reid Suspicious Copy Share Image
“Dan : "Greg was whistling. Whistling ! And giving their little gnome a bath. Cutest fucking baby I've ever seen.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“When I was younger, I wanted plenty of things, plenty of people, until I realized there was no point in wanting. Since… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he’ll see more beauty… — Penny Reid Beauty Copy Share Image
“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Glancing around the bar, half wondering if this was an elaborate prank, I searched my head for the right response to her request.… — Penny Reid Prank Copy Share Image
“holder. It was like some sort of miniature-recycled Stonehenge in the women’s bathroom, a monument to the bowel movements of days past.… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“You can stop panicking, Cletus. I have the berries.” “Oh, thank God.” Cletus held his chest and stumbled a step backward. “You… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“So, as you can see and if you reflect on it, awkward headed-females mating with beautifully normal headed-males is a bad idea.” — Penny Reid Bad idea Copy Share Image
“ISO 8601, data elements and interchange formats. It allows seamless intercourse between different bodies, governments, agencies, and corporations.” I couldn’t help myself… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“He threw his hands up. “What the hell is going on?” “Nothing—” “That’s bullshit, and you know it.” He took a deep breath, clearly trying to… — Penny Reid Entire life Copy Share Image
“Returning my attention to Quinn, I found him watching me with a glare of suspicion. “How old are you?” I reared back an inch, but… — Penny Reid War Copy Share Image
“the normals, the small-minded people who fill their brains with small-minded pursuits, who blend in and keep up with the Joneses. Those… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Look who finally decided to show up.” Cletus greeted me with both hands on his hips, standing just outside the garage. “I was about to send… — Penny Reid Time of day Copy Share Image
“Greg cut in thoughtfully, “Not to play devil’s advocate—” At this, we all scoffed. All of us. Even Quinn. Synchronized eye-rolling. Greg… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“What I saw were snapshots of my past. I saw having somebody, the someone I never had to explain shit to, my… — Penny Reid Past Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to lie, I was eating my second dinner. If I weren’t so tall and my feet free of hair,… — Penny Reid Dinner Copy Share Image
“Explaining the kiss away via alcohol-induced madness made my head feel better, as though the world had been righted on its axis,… — Penny Reid Truth Copy Share Image
“I hesitated, because this question sounded like a trap. A woman trap. The most perilous of all traps.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring ~” — Penny Reid Fellowship of the ring Copy Share Image
“Reading, for me, was like breathing. It was probably akin to masturbation for my brain.” — Penny Reid Reading Copy Share Image
“Anyway, you want to come inside? Cletus made dinner tonight. I’m sure he’d love to slide you his sausage.” — Penny Reid Dinner Copy Share Image
“I’d spent fourteen years as a we. An us. And becoming a me at this point was entirely out of the question” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“And looking like sex on a stick – if sex were Italian and the stick had an unfair amount of charisma.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Keep in mind, Cletus doesn’t much like change. When he changes, it’ll be kicking and screaming the whole way.” — Penny Reid Change Copy Share Image
“Together we would not be perfectly pragmatic. We would be impressively impractical.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“I have no desire to cherish each person's bullshit and call it a beautiful snowflake.” — Penny Reid Snowflake Copy Share Image
“Then, I reached for my sandwich and took a bite. It wasn’t the same as biting a person, but the chewing helped.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Because I would rather see the sadness in your eyes now than resentment in your eyes months or years from now” — Penny Reid Anger Copy Share Image
“That is why I don't want a cell phone. I don't want a droopy fin.” — Penny Reid Cell phone Copy Share Image
“And, when it was time for Meg to give her statement, I punched her in the face.” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“mean it, Beau. I can’t go through life focused solely on my own burdens. You leaning on me makes me stronger.” My” — Penny Reid Burdens Copy Share Image
“« Quote of the day: “Friendship is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it but only you can feel it».” — Penny Reid Friendship Copy Share Image