Quotes of Penny Reid

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“« Quote of the day: “Friendship is like peeing your pants; everyone can see it but only you can feel it».” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“Stay away from the normals, the small-minded people who fill their brains with small-minded pursuits, who blend in and keep up with the Joneses. Those people will tear you down and make you boring. Instead, surround yourself with the weirds. With the misfits, oddballs, and outcasts. Because the normals, bless their hearts, have no idea how to have fun.” ― Penny Reid, Beard Science
“With you there are only two distances that matter:  Here. Not here. You are not here.” ― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache
“Don’t set yourself on fire trying to keep others warm.” ― Penny Reid, Beard in Mind
“You underestimate how deeply you cut when your intentions carry no knives.” ― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache
“I decided, as I succumbed to sleep, that men should come with manuals, subtitles, and reset buttons.” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“You make me want to be less of an asshole.” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“You’ve shown me joy where before I saw only despair. You’ve taught me hope where before I knew only hopelessness. I may be broken, but all my pieces are yours. And I’ll work every day of my life to deserve you.” ― Penny Reid, Love Hacked
“We see the strengths and faults in others that we do not or cannot recognize in ourselves.” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“have you ever seen someone and thought to yourself, Whoa, he’s hot! I’d like to screw his brains out. And then, you talk to the guy and realize someone already has?” ― Penny Reid, Truth or Beard
“Is a chameleon a coward because it can change its color? No. It’s evolved and awesome. I like to think of myself in a similar fashion. There is nothing wrong with having a strong sense of self-preservation.” ― Penny Reid, Attraction
“Apathy between family members makes the blood they share turn to water.” ― Penny Reid, Beauty and the Mustache
“Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived abandonment would feel old hat. The truth is, as an adult, I am always waiting to be left behind. I’m always ready to be discarded and, therefore, I spend a significant amount of time preparing for this eventuality.I lower my expectations, I don’t seek out meaningful relationships, and I don’t engage in any sort of real intimacy, physical or otherwise.Engage is the key word here. Except, when I engage, when it happens, when I’m left behind it doesn’t feel old hat. It feels like it did the first time and it takes me by surprise. So, I don’t let it happen.” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“I have no desire to cherish each person's bullshit and call it a beautiful snowflake.” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“She said I owned the clothes of a radiologist and the shoes of an OBGYN; which is like the medical doctor equivalent of saying that I dressed like a librarian with a propensity of fuckmeboots.” ― Penny Reid, Neanderthal Seeks Human
“We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.” ― Albert Einstein” ― Penny Reid, Truth or Beard
“I don’t like to judge people.I love it.Writing people completely off was liberating” ― Penny Reid, Beard Science
“There is boring. There is sensational. There is mediocre. There is lazy. There is good. There is evil. People do implausible things all the time, and they run the gamut of moderately weird to truly extraordinary. But there is no normal. The world is an unbelievable place full of unbelievable people doing unbelievable things.” ― Penny Reid, Love Hacked
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Penny Reid

Sign up for the newsletter of awesome: Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of the Winston Brothers and Knitting in the City series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical…

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