Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Experience is the best teacher.”

— Penelope Douglas

2. “Yesterday lasts forever. Tomorrow comes never. Until you.”

— Penelope Douglas

3. “Tate, you’re mine, and I’m yours. Every day you’re going to realize that more and more. When you believe it without a doubt, then I’ll have earned your trust.”

— Penelope Douglas

4. “Acting like you don’t care is not letting it go.”

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5. “There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don’t carry weight anymore.”

— Penelope Douglas

6. “If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.”

— Penelope Douglas

7. “That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.”

— Penelope Douglas

8. “This is how bullies are made. I’d just purposely made him feel unloved and unwanted. I’d told him he was alone. Even with everything he’d pulled on me, I’d never felt abandoned or isolated. There was always someone that loved me, someone I could count on.”

— Penelope Douglas

9. “I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine.”

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10. “Letting yourself be vulnerable isn’t always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to draw the other person out.”

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11. “We all acclimate. We learn, we resolve, we come around – it’s not that anything really gets easier or harder. We just get better at rolling with it.”

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12. “Isn’t it about time you fought back?”

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13. “Maybe that’s the thing I’d been missing about love. You don’t withhold it or partition it out when it’s deserved. You can’t control it like that.”

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14. “The point is some people think they have a leading role when, really, they’re just supporting cast.”

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15. “Life moves pretty fast,” she stated. “If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

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16. “I was going to Homecoming with the one person in this school who made my skin crawl, I was getting attention from a gorgeous, star football player that I could care less about, and I was having wet dreams about a potential sociopath who acted like he hated me most of the time.”

— Penelope Douglas

17. “We’re going to rule the world, Rika.”

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18. “Son, women are easy. They simply want everything. It’s not difficult.”

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19. “You’re one-hundred percent responsible for your own happiness.”

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20. “Abuse can feel like love. Why?′ Starving people will eat anything.”

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21. “Because pain in the body quiets the pain in the head. It feels good, like a kill switch for your brain.”

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22. “Lust, learn, and love,” she says, placing the condiments and touching her finger to the ketchup. “My mother said the first boy – or man – is a crush. You think you love them, but what you really love is how they make you feel. It’s not love. It’s lust. Lust for attention. Lust for danger. Lust to feel special.” She looks between us. “You’re needy with number one. Needy for someone to love you.”

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23. “Three years ago, curious little Erika Fane wanted to play with the boys, so we indulged her, and she betrayed us.”

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24. “Damon Torrance was gifted at manipulating someone’s mind. Putting the right glasses over someone’s eyes to make them see the world how he wanted them to see it.”

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25. “Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven. The quote I read years ago went something like that, but I never understood it. When you’re in the thick all your life, living in ways you eventually figure out no one else is, you learn to sleep well in heat and eat fire. Until one day it’s all you need.”

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26. “Because we all eat lies when our hearts are hungry.”

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27. “Did you ever love me?” “Love is pain, Nik. It’s never felt good.” “Not even my love?” “I don’t want to hurt you. Anymore. That’s all I know.”

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28. “The birthday girl and her wishes. She’ll always be a part of me.”

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29. “Liv Jaeger has been a bloody nuisance since the day I met her, but sometimes I’m not even sure what bugs me so much about her. She stays in her lane, doesn’t she? But I love pushing her. I love it like nothing else.”

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30. “Pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.”

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31. “But those differences strengthened us back then. As individuals we had weaknesses, but as the Horsemen we were invincible. We each brought something different to the table, and where one lacked, the others stepped in. We were a unit, on and off the court.”

— Penelope Douglas

32. “Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven.”

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33. “Life is one-way, and there is no return trip. What are you waiting for?”

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34. “Enjoy your freedom while it lasts, Winter Ashby, because we’re not done,” Damon warned in a low voice that snaked through my ear, taunting me. “Grow up, learn things, and have fun in high school, but don’t change the little girl who loves it ‘in the black’, because I like you there, too. And I will be back for what’s mine when you’re old enough for bigger things.”

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35. “The notches go all the way to the buckle,” I point out. “I’m flattered, but my waist isn’t that small.” Noah leans in, whispering, “But your wrists are.”

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36. “The role of the villain is only determined by who’s telling the story.”

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37. “I might wish this change could’ve happened differently, but some of us don’t learn from the heat. We need the fire.”

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38. “L’appel du vide. The call of the void.”

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39. “If you’re the tornado, its everything in its way that gets destroyed.”

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40. “You can’t be burned if you’re the flame.”

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41. “People hide in the dark. They quench their thirsts in the dark. They build their secrets in the dark. We’re more ourselves here than anywhere else. I get to be me... ” he swallowed, staring at me, “when nightfall is coming.”

— Penelope Douglas

42. “You either have my back,” Michael said. “You’re at my side,” Kai continued. “Or you’re in my way,” the rest of us finished. “Be Lilith,” the girls said. Athos pulled the Red Death over her eyes, all of us setting off as she whispered. “Never Eve.”

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43. “I fell in love with your words. Unfortunately you were a good liar.”

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44. “You’re my person. I need you alive. You make me brave.”

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45. “We were perfect for each other. Until we met.”

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46. “We might not make the best decisions under pressure, but you can’t make a decision at all when you’re not talking about it.”

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47. “But I hear her small, sweet voice behind me. “Yes, Daddy.” I blink long and hard, my hand tingling with an urge to give someone a spanking for the first time in my life.”

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48. “She needed a hot shower, a warm bed, and me.”

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49. “We’re all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it.”

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50. “Loving a guarded girl, I had realized, was a pyrrhic victory. The rare moments of happiness came at too great a cost.”

— Penelope Douglas