Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Life is fifty wrong turns down a bumpy road. All you can hope is that you end up somewhere nice.” “I.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

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54. “I might wish this change could’ve happened differently, but some of us don’t learn from the heat. We need the fire.”

— Penelope Douglas

55. “L’appel du vide. The call of the void.”

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56. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

57. “I’m not playing your games. You were wrong.” I crossed my arms over my chest. “You want to know what I’ve learned? I don’t win by playing your games. I win by making you play mine.”

— Penelope Douglas

58. “People hide in the dark. They quench their thirsts in the dark. They build their secrets in the dark. We’re more ourselves here than anywhere else. I get to be me... ” he swallowed, staring at me, “when nightfall is coming.”

— Penelope Douglas

59. “We were perfect for each other. Until we met.”

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

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61. “I love you more than myself,” I told her, “more than my own family, for Christ’s sake. I don’t want to take another step in this world without you next to me.”

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62. “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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63. “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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64. “I’m dying to taste you,” I tell him. “And to feel you. Every day it’s getting harder and harder to ignore what my body wants. I wake up so wet, Pike.” I move my mouth over to his, layering our lips. “I want you to want me. I want to see you wanting me and getting off on me.”

— Penelope Douglas

65. “I am not scared,” he repeated. “I am the eye of the storm. The calm in the madness.” I blew out a breath, drawing in another, slower. “The quiet in the chaos. The patience for my moment.”

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66. “Cowards always live to regret, because it’s only too late that they realize the journey is filled with people who are afraid. They didn’t have to walk alone.”

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67. “Avoiding the bad means you risk avoiding the good, too, and I’d rather be hurt than never not feel this.”

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68. “Run all you want, Little Monster,” he said, sounding like a threat. “We’re faster.”

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69. “Red. Out of all the colors, I liked red the best.”

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70. “I fell in love with your words. Unfortunately you were a good liar.”

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71. “Loving a guarded girl, I had realized, was a pyrrhic victory. The rare moments of happiness came at too great a cost.”

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72. “Chaos lost in chaos. Liberty in being a small part of a larger madness. When you weren’t seen, you weren’t judged. There was a desirable freedom in that.”

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73. “People may live different realities, but the truth is always the same.”

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74. “And you say “Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned”.” “Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.” “What would you like to confess?” “A boy got a hold of me, Father.”

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75. “I can’t change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I’d go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I’d make sure that you smiled.” My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. “Every minute of my future belongs to you.”

— Penelope Douglas

76. “But I hear her small, sweet voice behind me. “Yes, Daddy.” I blink long and hard, my hand tingling with an urge to give someone a spanking for the first time in my life.”

— Penelope Douglas

77. “We need lies to survive sometimes, because the truth hurts too much.”

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78. “That you don’t have to live in the reality someone else had invented. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do. Ever. Redefine normal. None of us know the full measure of our power until we start pushing our boundaries and pressing our luck, and the more we do, the less we care what others think. The freedom feels too good.”

— Penelope Douglas

79. “I never make mistakes,” I replied. “I’m either right or I’m learning. Jaku niku kyo shoku.” I recited one of the many Japanese sayings he’d spouted over the course of my life. The weak are meat, the strong eat.”

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80. “You know why most people in the world are unhappy, Rika? Because they don’t have the courage to do the one thing that will change their lives.”

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81. “Live for your love,” the judge said, “love your life, and raise hell.”

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82. “Don’t think you’re special. Lots of women get him. No one keeps him.”

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83. “Eres preciosa e inteligente, y tienes un fuego en tu interior al que me he vuelto adicto.”

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84. “You’re my person. I need you alive. You make me brave.”

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85. “A good parent has happy kids,” she whispered in my ear. “Our kids are so happy.”

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86. “We’re all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it.”

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87. “How I’d never hated anyone as much as I hated him, but how I loved what I felt with him more than I loved anything I felt with anyone else, either.”

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88. “She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.”

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89. “Words hung on the tip of my tongue, telling them that they were oversimplifying. That it was easier to judge a girl you knew nothing about than to allow someone the dignity of their process. That it was more convenient to not consider that there were things we didn’t know and things we’d never understand, because we were shallow and entitled and ignorant.”

— Penelope Douglas

90. “I love you, Michael.”

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91. “I need her to hurt me, because pain covers up pain, and if I feel one, I won’t feel the other.”

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92. “1. Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you’ll see which one he is. 2. They will try to tell you that it feels better without a condom. You just tell me where they live. 3. And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don’t drag each other down. You hold each other.”

— Penelope Douglas

93. “Drive a convertible with the top down in the rain.”

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94. “He was always game. And thanks to his tutelage, now so was I. He’d corrupted me.”

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95. “When you grow up, your heart dies.” -Allison Reynolds, The Breakfast Club.”

— Penelope Douglas

96. “Birthday wishes don’t always come true, so I don’t waste a chance when I blow out a candle.”

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97. “There are too many people that try to change us, and not enough people who want us to be who we really are. Someone once made me see that, and i wanted to give that to you.”

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98. “Own who you are.”

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99. “And the things that were irreplaceable in life were the only things of value.”

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100. “My eyes burn with tears, and I’m so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I’m not and making mistakes that I didn’t have any fun making.”

— Penelope Douglas