Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “I don’t care what I look like anymore as long as I look like yours.”

— Penelope Douglas

452. “While driving, we think, even for just a moment, about jerking the steering wheel into oncoming traffic or leaping off the balcony of a ship and into the abyss of the black water below. They’re passing thoughts and little dares we allow our psyche, because we’re tired of not living and we want the fear. We want to remember why we want to live.”

— Penelope Douglas

453. “I descended the small pathway toward the orchestra section, watching her, the long, gauzy gray costume flowing in layers around her legs and her hair flying around her as she spun and bent backward. There were no words to describe how beautiful she was.”

— Penelope Douglas

454. “My home is where you are,” he says quietly.”

— Penelope Douglas

455. “If there was no gamble, there was no reward.”

— Penelope Douglas

456. “Making a mistake takes seconds. Living with them takes a lifetime.”

— Penelope Douglas

457. “It’s a subtle gesture I actually love despite the building tension in the room. It’s his way of letting me know he might be angry, but he’s not angry with me, and he hates that I’m probably uncomfortable right now.”

— Penelope Douglas

458. “I flip her back over, hungry to be in control again, and her head falls at the side of the bed, too close to the bedside table. I grab the edge of it and whip it away, sending it toppling over, lamp and everything crashing to the floor.”

— Penelope Douglas

459. “I wanted to fight and scream and laugh and smile and kiss and taste and wrap my arms around him more than I could stomach never feeling him again.”

— Penelope Douglas

460. “God, you’re like a female version of me,” I said. “It’s turning me on.”

— Penelope Douglas

461. “I want to kill anyone for trying to take you away from me.”

— Penelope Douglas

462. “What an amazing thing time is. Three years ago, I thought I was going to die on this boat, him the last person I saw or talked to. I’d never been more scared. Now, there’s hardly a day that goes by where I don’t speak to him or need him.”

— Penelope Douglas

463. “We couldn’t shut out every single person who’d disappointed us. Some of them were still worth fighting for.”

— Penelope Douglas

464. “I hid inside myself all those years because I didn’t want to be rejected anymore or hurt.”

— Penelope Douglas

465. “But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.”

— Penelope Douglas

466. “Your kids – and I imagine they had more help – dug a wide but shallow grave on Weston’s football field. They stole the kid’s car, drove it into the hole, and buried it. They even made a nice little tombstone for it.” Snorts.”

— Penelope Douglas

467. “Because everyone lies to make people feel better.”

— Penelope Douglas

468. “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

469. “Man, our fifth-grade teachers would be proud.”

— Penelope Douglas

470. “We found each other, and no matter what anyone would say about what happened up here this winter, I’m the only one who needs to understand.”

— Penelope Douglas

471. “I knew what he wanted. What he needed. And I couldn’t deny him. Not tonight. I opened my mouth and bit down on the skin between his neck and his shoulder.”

— Penelope Douglas

472. “Women love being owned by a good man.”

— Penelope Douglas

473. “The idea of her falling in love... Of her wanting anyone else... “You were never anyone else’s but mine,” I tell her.”

— Penelope Douglas

474. “And you’re definitely your father’s daughter,” I teased. Zero sense of what could’ve just happened to her. And zero care.”

— Penelope Douglas

475. “I’m not going anywhere until she’s mine.”

— Penelope Douglas

476. “I want to kill anyone for trying to take you away from me.” I reached my hands around her ass, feeling the strap of blades around her leg, and lifted her into my arms. “If I ever leave you, it’s because I’m dead.”

— Penelope Douglas

477. “Unfortunately, the world moves on, and then it just becomes punishing yourself.”

— Penelope Douglas

478. “Or when they demolish their boyfriend’s car with a crowbar. I’m not entirely sure that story is true, but it’s fun to think about.”

— Penelope Douglas

479. “Hell hones heroes.”

— Penelope Douglas

480. “It’s kind of nice – seeing the world but not having them see you. Like we’re the only two people left.”

— Penelope Douglas

481. “Lying to yourself never moves you forward.”

— Penelope Douglas

482. “God, little monster, I love you.”

— Penelope Douglas

483. “He smirks. “Turning you on, am I?” His girl snorts behind him, and I scowl.”

— Penelope Douglas

484. “I don’t know these people.”

— Penelope Douglas

485. “Say yes to us,” Noah whispers against my mouth.”

— Penelope Douglas

486. “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

487. “Hell yes. First chocolate? That’s big.”

— Penelope Douglas

488. “I trusted myself now. I wasn’t leaving, and I wasn’t hiding. Happy people don’t fear death, because there’s nothing more they want out of life than what they have right now.”

— Penelope Douglas

489. “I knew she’d be fine once she healed, but it almost seemed unfair that some women did this five or six times. Sometimes more. It looked brutal.”

— Penelope Douglas

490. “Not everyone is born knowing their path from point A to B.”

— Penelope Douglas

491. “It’s holding him tightly and loving him slowly.”

— Penelope Douglas

492. “The crime was I couldn’t tell her who I was. And the crime was she didn’t love me back. Her heart was so shallow, she couldn’t understand and know that I was real. Every moment with her, I was real. I would’ve been faithful, and I would’ve died protecting her.”

— Penelope Douglas

493. “Six months ago, I ran from a life of people who wouldn’t talk to me and ended up falling for a guy who may never say a word to me.”

— Penelope Douglas

494. “And eight days later, he shows up on my mother’s doorstep. He hands her nine thousand four hundred sixty-two dollars, a Rolex, and some emerald earrings. And he takes me home with him.”

— Penelope Douglas

495. “Reality is fickle, isn’t it?” I ask. “We can get used to almost anything.” We all acclimate. We learn, we resolve, we come around – it’s not that anything really gets easier or harder.”

— Penelope Douglas

496. “Bringing a shaky hand to my mouth, I sucked in air as if it were going out of style.”

— Penelope Douglas

497. “No one does me better than me. I close my eyes again, hearing what he’s saying. I changed, because I didn’t think what I brought to the table was worthy enough. I let them make me believe that, but who made them authorities? I may no longer be adored, but I might not be so miserable, either. And I may eat alone, but that’s not such terrible company, is it?”

— Penelope Douglas

498. “The intercom. He’d found her.”

— Penelope Douglas

499. “This – ” she taps my chest over my heart, “what you’re feeling right now – is the best thing that can happen to you. Because when all the pieces of your heart start to come back together, and they will, they’ll be stronger. And much tougher for someone to pierce.”

— Penelope Douglas

500. “The skin touching skin. My body on fire and alive with him. His breath. His tongue. His mouth and hands. His teeth nipping at my stomach and thighs. That feeling of wanting nothing else, and I would rather never eat again than not have him.”

— Penelope Douglas