Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “The only one who can bring Ivar Torrance’s father to his knees is Ivar’s mother.”

— Penelope Douglas

452. “Everything with him was like home.”

— Penelope Douglas

453. “It’s yours now.” He met my eyes. “It’s been yours for nearly ten years.” I stared up at him, tears blurring my vision. He was going to ask me himself?”

— Penelope Douglas

454. “Tyler looked after him and then turned to me, cocking his head. “I’m not a jealous man, but for you I might make an exception.”

— Penelope Douglas

455. “Why do I care so much what the other girls think? Why do I want to be friends with them? I try to be nice, but it’s never good enough. But they’re mean and everyone loves them. Why is that?”

— Penelope Douglas

456. “Just don’t let me go, okay?”

— Penelope Douglas

457. “It’s no excuse,” I pointed out. And she agreed. “No, it’s not.” she said. “It’s a reason. Plain and simple. There’s always a reason why things are as they are.”

— Penelope Douglas

458. “I guessed we’ve all built ourselves up through sadness, disappointment, and experience. It just happens at different times and in different ways.”

— Penelope Douglas

459. “The more you do for someone, the less they do for themselves.”

— Penelope Douglas

460. “One pain at a time.”

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461. “She’s already coming,” he said, sounding a little surprised.”

— Penelope Douglas

462. “I like you,” he told me. “I want you in my house. I want to see you in my bed. I don’t want to not see you every day. Be with me tonight.”

— Penelope Douglas

463. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

464. “Marriages, kids, a divorce – we’d all been through the ringer, and it was a wake-up call one day when I realized I’d been waiting for my life to start – my real life – only to realize that it had already happened when I wasn’t paying attention.”

— Penelope Douglas

465. “So, what did you want to talk about?” I ask. “Your car’s extended warranty.”

— Penelope Douglas

466. “It’s simply finding the choice that leaves me with the most options and the least consequences.”

— Penelope Douglas

467. “I felt like no one wanted me and that life moved on without me. No one cared.” Jared’s.”

— Penelope Douglas

468. “I buried my masked face in her neck and tightened my arms around her. Possessive. Threatening.”

— Penelope Douglas

469. “Hey, it’s not the label on the jeans but what’s inside that matters.” And he hefted me up, gripping my ass and pressing me to him.”

— Penelope Douglas

470. “And what disgusting task, pray tell, would you like me to do?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

472. “Madoc thought I was dirt under his shoe. Screw him.”

— Penelope Douglas

473. “There were dark deeds and bad seeds, but who cared if the house was falling apart as long as it was pretty, right?”

— Penelope Douglas

474. “You always wait for tomorrow. But let me clue you in. Tomorrow was yesterday.”

— Penelope Douglas

475. “I love you,” he said. I immediately broke down, tears springing to my eyes. Happy tears.”

— Penelope Douglas

476. “And all I knew in that moment was that I would fight for nothing more than to keep her like this. Innocent and happy and pure.”

— Penelope Douglas

477. “I’ve been trying for years, it seems, to be the kind of woman I admire, and all of a sudden I feel like I am that woman. I know I’m worth it. You’re just not.”

— Penelope Douglas

478. “We want what we want,” he whispered. I dropped my eyes to my lap, fisting my hands.”

— Penelope Douglas

479. “Everyone watching us from a distance faded away, and I looked down at his hair matted to his scalp and temples, droplets cascading down his cheeks and over his lashes, and all I wanted in the world was to stare at him forever. “I build with you now,” he whispered to me, the heat of his mouth on my lips. “We make Thunder Bay together, Em. I love you.”

— Penelope Douglas

480. “I grinned. “You’re absolved, right?” I asked him, reminding him of his confession this morning. “You need new sins for next week. Don’t worry. You’ll like it.”

— Penelope Douglas

481. “I could never pretend you weren’t you,” he says. “I don’t want to.”

— Penelope Douglas

482. “Own it. Don’t apologize for who you are. Own it. You can’t win if you don’t show up, right?”

— Penelope Douglas

483. “They were untouchable, fascinating, and nothing they ever did was wrong. I wanted that. I wanted to look down at the sky.”

— Penelope Douglas

484. “In our hearts, we always know what’s right and wrong. That’s not the struggle. The struggle is wanting what’s wrong for you and gauging whether or not the consequences are worth it.”

— Penelope Douglas

485. “Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.”

— Penelope Douglas

486. “Did you know that your open thighs are directly responsible for my renewable energy source?”

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487. “Can we do that again?”

— Penelope Douglas

488. “Kaleb’s not good. But he’s the one I want.”

— Penelope Douglas

489. “Kai grabbed me, wrapping his arms around my torso, under my arms, and lifting me up. “I love you,” he whispered against my lips as he backed us away from the others. “And he can send me to prison again for a very long time. I’m not letting that happen now that I’ve found you. Please.”

— Penelope Douglas

490. “Dip your toe in every ocean and try everything and anything.”

— Penelope Douglas

491. “We romance readers can be very hard on our heroines.”

— Penelope Douglas

492. “He never gave up. Deep down, I loved that, because I was going to be an effort for anyone, and he wasn’t easily discouraged.”

— Penelope Douglas

493. “To my thinking, when someone gave out their compliments and good opinions rarely, they meant more.”

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494. “This time I just wanted to run. I didn’t want anyone to see me, like I was so embarrassing I wanted to erase myself from people’s memories and cease to exist. Just disappear.”

— Penelope Douglas

495. “This was a game to him, and that was fine. He just wasn’t the only one playing anymore.”

— Penelope Douglas

496. “It’s hard to find that one person who speaks your language.”

— Penelope Douglas

497. “Yesterday is gone.”

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498. “You were the only loner I knew who hated being alone.”

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499. “He was everything. My entire life, I only felt completely alive when he was close, and while I knew nothing would ever be easy with him, I also knew nothing would ever be good without him.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas