Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Experience is the best teacher.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

4. “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.”

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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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “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.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “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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19. “Whatever the birthday girl wants,” he whispers.”

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

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

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22. “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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23. “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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24. “It’s always best to say as little as possible. The more of a mystery you are, the less leverage they have.”

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

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

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28. “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.”

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29. “What do you treasure? Is anything precious to you?”

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30. “Fear made us feel alive.”

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31. “The more you embrace change, though, the easier it gets.”

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

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33. “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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34. “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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35. “Life felt like hell, because we expected it to feel like heaven.”

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

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38. “Life is fifty wrong turns down a bumpy road. All you can hope is that you end up somewhere nice.” “I.”

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39. “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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40. “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.”

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

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42. “It’s just you, Little Monster. Own it or it will own you.”

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

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45. “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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46. “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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47. “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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48. “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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49. “We were perfect for each other. Until we met.”

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

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