Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I’d have her right here, surrounding me and getting lost with me where the rest of the world didn’t exist, and it was just us. Always just us.”

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452. “I can feel it,” he whispered, his other hand gripping my hip. “You want me, don’t you? You want this?”

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453. “I closed my eyes, feeling the blood under my nails as I wrapped my cold fingers around the key. One night soon. While everyone was asleep. We’ll find out what the key unlocks, Octavia. We’ll own the night.”

— Penelope Douglas

454. “Some people spend years settling for something, because it’s better than nothing, before one day we finally realize that it’s actually not. Nothing is better than the wrong thing.” Wrong things kill our insides.”

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455. “I want to be his. We weren’t just playing around. It wasn’t like that for me. I don’t want anyone else to touch me.”

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456. “You’re ours now,” he says and looks down to meet my eyes.”

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457. “How we are all the righteous heroes of our own story if we’re the ones telling it.”

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458. “It will be my ring on your finger and my kids in your belly someday.”

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459. “You’re not the boss,” I gasped, taunting him. “Not the boss of me. Little sister does anything she wants. Whoever she wants. You’re not my daddy.”

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460. “We forced what wasn’t there, not because we needed each other, but because we needed someone. We were always better friends.”

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461. “We don’t break laws for personal gain. We do it for fun.”

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462. “I kiss her forehead and every inch of her face, learning her body like it’s my home. Every curve. Every bone. Every patch of skin. This is my girl. And I know I was made for her.”

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463. “Why do you always have to think so much until you’ve twisted something that was good into something bad?”

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464. “I swear to God I’ll make sure you don’t sit for a week.”

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465. “Nothing hurt if I knew I had you.”

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466. “Tell me I’m crazy for thinking you’re holding back from me as much as I’m hiding you.”

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467. “Do I make you feel safe? I like taking care of you.”

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468. “My mom is a mess, she doesn’t always put me first, and I hate the positions I’m put in sometimes, but... I know she loves me. Not that it always feels like enough, but I know she tries.”

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469. “I smiled, because I didn’t have any fear. Finally, I was free.”

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470. “Would you rather be used than never thought of at all?” “Would you rather be never thought of at all or used?”

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471. “My favorite thing about Banks is that she proudly refrains from bringing anything to the table unless it’s a solution.”

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472. “Sometimes, I thought I wanted to touch you,” Michael whispers, and I feel it on the top of my hair. “Other times, I thought I wanted to kill you. I didn’t know if it was love or hate, but I knew it would change my life.”

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473. “No pressure. No expectations. Just there for each other.”

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474. “I don’t like being around people I don’t know. I don’t like being around people.”

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475. “Leave her alone, Damon.” “Suck me, Fane,” he shot back.”

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476. “Seven years, and this is how you want to meet, Angel?”

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477. “I looked into Em’s eyes, whispering, “I love you, baby.” “Good,” she told me. “Because I wasn’t actually on the shot like I said I was in the greenhouse.”

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478. “Everything with him was like home.”

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479. “You hate me?” I play, walking to the edge of the pool and dropping her to her feet. “You done with me? Is that it?” I push.”

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480. “Michael talked about women the same way he talked about cheeseburgers.”

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481. “Shhh,” he soothed, his left hand resting on my hip. “We’ve got all the time in the world.”

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482. “We keep biting back. We survive, because sometimes that’s the most violent thing we can do to other people. We stay alive.”

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483. “I never make mistakes. I’m either right or I’m learning.”

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484. “No matter the money or the meetings or the mayor’s office, Michael,” I tell him, “I’ll always be perpetually twelve. Searching for Trevor’s older brother in every room I enter.”

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485. “Everything feels good with her, and I crave her every moment. Talking to her. Touching her. Her scent and the promise of more. The feel of how she loves my body, and how being with her and doing things that make her breathless reminds me that I feel just a little bit lonely with everyone else in my life, except her. It’s about having someone to look forward to who wants your love.”

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486. “They didn’t leave me a note. Even now, there was nothing they wanted to say to me.”

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487. “Whoever he is, he was just here. We need to go. Now.”

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488. “I’d give anything – anything – to have her in my arms right now.”

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489. “And you say... forgive me father for i have sinned.” “Forgive me father... for I have sinned.” “What would you like to confess?”

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490. “Don’t you know that you can have anything you want?” His eyes searched mine. “I’ll hurt anyone for you.”

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491. “I was raised to be a gentleman,” he said, “but if you send other men after me, catching my interest will be the worst mistake you ever made.”

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492. “No matter what a woman wears, she’s not asking for it.”

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493. “I’d loved Emory since the moment I laid eyes on her when I was fourteen. I could still see her – sitting on her bike outside the chain-link fence surrounding the school parking lot as she watched my friends and me on our skateboards that summer.”

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494. “I want my delinquent.”

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495. “I don’t like women who chase me anyway,” she says. “When I want them, they know.”

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496. “My friends were simply mine. That was it. They were separate from what happened at home, in class, or even in my head sometimes. That’s what I liked about them. When we were together, we were a planet.”

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497. “People are a blend of external and internal influences, not all controlled variables. Sometimes, just sometimes, we are who we are. Even in the sea, a snake is a snake.”

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498. “All I know is,” he sighed, “a week later, Edward McClanahan left a confession on his parents’ kitchen table and then followed her over the cliff. The last line of the confession read ‘We want what we want.”

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499. “You are significant,” I say quietly, still staring up at the screen. “Scientists say that nearly all the atoms in our bodies were made in a star. And many of those atoms have traveled through several supernovas.” I pause, seeing her look over at me out of the corner of my eye. “You weren’t born here. You were born billions of years ago, Aro. You’re stardust.” I look over, meeting her eyes. “The stars don’t need to see you. They know you.”

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500. “Or I wanted more kids. That was until I went over to Damon’s house and then I’d be running out the front door ten minutes later with a migraine. Their nanny day drank, and I wasn’t even going to pretend that I didn’t understand why.”

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