The Best Daisy Jones and the Six Book Quotes
(Ad: This post contains affiliate links, which means that any purchase may give me a small commission at no extra cost to you)
Here are some of the best quotes from Daisy Jones and the Six.
The hit novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six is a New York Times bestseller and the first book in TJR’s famous fictional women quartet.
First published in 2019, the book was adapted into a miniseries for Amazon Prime in 2023. Well received by critics and fans alike, the series was accompanied by an album which reached the top 40 of the UK’s Official Album Chart.
The story is told in a documentary style, using snippets of interviews with Daisy Jones and other members of the band. It’s a compelling tale and I found that this unusual format was very effective in creating depth and showing the perspectives of various characters.
Synopsis:
“Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity… until now.
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go.
The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she's pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.”
Here are some of the very best quotes from Daisy Jones and the Six
Quotes About Love
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
“Handsome men that tell you what you want to hear are almost always liars.”
“But loving somebody isn’t perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch.”
“There's this peace that comes with knowing you have a person in the world who would do anything for you, that you would do anything for.”
Quotes About Life
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody.”
“I used to care when men called me difficult. I really did. Then I stopped. This way is better.”
“It was a big lesson for me when I was young—being given things versus earning them. I was so used to being given things that I didn’t know how important it is for your soul to earn them.”
“That’s the problem with people who don’t have to work for things. They don’t know how to work for things.”
“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
“Acceptance is a powerful drug. And I should know because I’ve done them all.”
“Actually, it wasn’t that fun, it was just that I was happy. Everything seems fun when you’re happy.”
“I was scared of living my life feeling like I’ve anchored myself to the wrong dock.”
“History is what you did, not what you almost did, not what you thought about doing. And I was proud of what I did.”
“We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.”
Do you have a favourite quote from Daisy Jones and the Six? Leave a comment and let me know.
You can buy a copy of Daisy Jones and the Six here.