Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 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. “Now,” I breathed out. “I want you now, Damon.” He sucked in air between his teeth. “Say that again. With my name.” “I want you now, Damon.”

— Penelope Douglas

453. “Damon shoves his chair back, making Banks and Ryen jump, and rises, scowling at Michael.”

— Penelope Douglas

454. “You see, Rika,” I told her. “There are people in the world who are destined to be played. Victims who wouldn’t be able to change their fate even if they went back and lived life over a thousand different ways.” I made a show of letting my eyes fall down her form. “And then there are players. Like you and me.” I gestured to the threesome. “Which piece would you move next?”

— Penelope Douglas

455. “I do what I want, when I want, and nothing for your pleasure.”

— Penelope Douglas

456. “I don’t want her to ever speak another word again that I can’t hear.”

— Penelope Douglas

457. “Yes, I made enough mistakes to last a lifetime, but I’m not a bad parent, and that’s just about the worst thing you can be.”

— Penelope Douglas

458. “Your place is at my side,” I told her. “Say it.” She whispered, “My place is at your side.”

— Penelope Douglas

459. “I want to talk to you in private,” he said. I straightened my spine, meeting him eye to eye. “Private?” I teased. “Like steam-room private? I’m game.”

— Penelope Douglas

460. “Her imagination was full of wonderous things, and I didn’t have any imagination at all. I didn’t want her to be like me.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

462. “Do you have any idea how perfect you are?”

— Penelope Douglas

463. “Sticking with me for the rest of your life,” I replied, putting my arm around her waist. “That’ll suck.”

— Penelope Douglas

464. “You and me. We all hear it. L’appel du vide. The call of the void.”

— Penelope Douglas

465. “I don’t care what I look like anymore as long as I look like yours.”

— Penelope Douglas

466. “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

467. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

469. “When I thought about it, there actually weren’t a lot of things or people in the world that I loved. Why had I left them here?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

472. “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

473. “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

474. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

477. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

480. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

482. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

484. “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

485. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

487. “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

488. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

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491. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

493. “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

494. “Hell hones heroes.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

499. “I don’t know these people.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas