Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “L’appel du vide. The call of the void.”

— Penelope Douglas

52. “The villain was just a matter of perspective.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

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

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56. “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

57. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

58. “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

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

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

— Penelope Douglas

63. “I’m your friend forever, and if that’s all I get, then that’s what I’m taking because only when you are here... do I feel like my life is worth a damn.”

— Penelope Douglas

64. “I just wanted freedom.”

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

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

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67. “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

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

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

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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

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74. “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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75. “We’re going to rule the world, Rika.” I held out my hands, grinning. “You, Banks, and me.”

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76. “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

77. “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

78. “It’s always the same wish. Every candle. Every time. I want a life I never want to take a vacation from. That’s my goal.”

— Penelope Douglas

79. “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

80. “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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81. “You want to know what I’ve learned? I don’t win by playing your games. I win by making you play mine.”

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82. “The most valuable lesson anyone learns in life should be learned as early as possible. 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.”

— Penelope Douglas

83. “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

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

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

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86. “And my brother, Damon Torrance, had been a nightmare since the first time I met him. An exquisite nightmare.”

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87. “Real monsters don’t wear masks, William Grayson III,” I retorted. “They look like everyone else.”

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88. “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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89. “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.”

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90. “Will, Kai, Damon, and Michael. The Four Horseman. I just loved these nicknames little wannabe gangsters gave themselves in high school, but someone should really tell them it wasn’t scary when youhad to tell everyone how scary you were.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

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92. “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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93. “The secret of life that everyone knew and everyone forgot was that we weren’t alone. We thought we were unique. We thought we were the first. No one has been through what I’ve been through. No one else is feeling this. No one knows what it’s like to be me. This is the first time anyone has endured what I’ve endured, right?”

— Penelope Douglas

94. “Happy people don’t fear death, because there’s nothing more they want out of life than what they have right now.”

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95. “Enemies are a choice. A result of our egos. They happen when we’ve chosen to see sheep instead of sleeping lions.”

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96. “I’m never letting you go again, Tate,” I whispered, almost desperate. “I’m your friend forever, and if that’s all I get, then that’s what I’m taking, because only when you’re here” – I took her hand and placed it on my heart – “do I feel like my life is worth a damn.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

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99. “Because he’s the one pure, beautiful thing untainted by ugliness,” he repeated his same words from the shower. “And we love him for it.”

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100. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas