Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “You belong to me more than you ever did to them.”

— Penelope Douglas

102. “My wild girl. The one who sets fires everywhere she goes. I was dead before her.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

104. “There’s pawns and rooks and knights and bishops, but only one queen.”

— Penelope Douglas

105. “People come together, and for a tiny space of time... it’s beautiful and raw, because you can’t think and you don’t want to. You just feel... The moments are what we remember.”

— Penelope Douglas

106. “It could be so strange how things happen. How the people you never suspect become you’re only lifeline, and you hold onto them as hard as you can, because you have no choice. There was nothing else to keep you from falling. Falling into loneliness or despair or fear. He reached for me, and I reached back.”

— Penelope Douglas

107. “I learned a long time ago that you don’t need to reveal everything inside of you to the people around you.”

— Penelope Douglas

108. “Everyone contemplates suicide at some point, even if it’s just for a minute. And one thing is usually the root cause. Loneliness.”

— Penelope Douglas

109. “Own who you are.”

— Penelope Douglas

110. “It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are. She may have wanted what I had, and I may have wanted less, but we were still both struggling no matter the shoes we walked in.”

— Penelope Douglas

111. “The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.”

— Penelope Douglas

112. “I’m not yours, Will Grayson. And I’ll walk, thanks.”

— Penelope Douglas

113. “You don’t want to be alone in high school, and if you have friends – good ones or not – you have a little power. High school is like prison in that way. You can’t make it on your own.”

— Penelope Douglas

114. “Do you notice that, too? How all of us just want to get through life as quickly and as easily as possible? And even though we know that without risk there’s no reward, we’re still so scared to chance it? I’m.”

— Penelope Douglas

115. “And he wrapped his arms around me, holding me tight, and this was it. Right here. Everything I wanted to feel that brought me even more happiness than dancing did. He was still the boy, promising to kiss me again someday, and I was still her, never wanting to leave whatever little private world we created when we were together.”

— Penelope Douglas

116. “In fact, he was kind of an angel at the end. An angel with really black batwings.”

— Penelope Douglas

117. “The last line of the confession read ‘We want what we want.’” I turned my eyes on him as sweat cooled my pores.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

119. “You never smile... You never feel joy. No dreams for the future. No plans. You have no fight in you. You’re barely alive.”

— Penelope Douglas

120. “It’s always best to say as little as possible. The more of a mystery you are, the less leverage they have.”

— Penelope Douglas

121. “We want what we want.”

— Penelope Douglas

122. “No one does you better than you. You can’t be replaced. Not everyone will see that, but only you need to.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

124. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

125. “Are you scared, Emory?” he asked her. Her voice remained as still and calm as her body. “I’m the eye of the storm. You?”

— Penelope Douglas

126. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

128. “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

129. “When she removes her makeup, taking off her brave face for the day, do the demons she keeps buried start playing with her when there’s no one else to play with?”

— Penelope Douglas

130. “Those who are patient, plan. And beware the man with a plan.”

— Penelope Douglas

131. “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

132. “We romance readers can be very hard on our heroines. We often see ourselves in those roles and compare their decisions to the decisions we would’ve made instead. We tend to judge them more harshly than we do the heroes, because we hold them to the same expectation we hold ourselves.”

— Penelope Douglas

133. “The shy ones tend to be the baddest after all.”

— Penelope Douglas

134. “She’s describing us, I take it. “Number two is where you finally learn what you’re capable of,” she continues, tucking a loose strand from her ponytail behind her ear. “You start getting demanding. You grow bold, not afraid to start calling some shots. You’re also not afraid to be greedier in the bedroom, because it’s about what you want and not what he wants. Number two is to be used. In a way.”

— Penelope Douglas

135. “Don’t you trust it?” I asked her. “What?” “That this will never end.” She needed everyone to know that I was hers, when it would save her a lot of aggravation if it could just be enough to know that I knew I was hers. I stalked toward her, slow step after slow step as my eyes dropped to her tits threatening to pop over the top of her dress. And believe me, I knew I was hers. The man in her bed every night. The father of her children. Her partner in everything I did.”

— Penelope Douglas

136. “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

137. “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

138. “You and me against the world,” he whispered, picking up speed and going harder. “Always,” I said.”

— Penelope Douglas

139. “I don’t flaunt myself for the enjoyment of men.”

— Penelope Douglas

140. “We will have kids. If you want them. But I will never not have you.” He shakes me. “Do you understand?” A sob lodges in my throat. “Do you understand?” he growls again. “A world where there is no us can’t happen.”

— Penelope Douglas

141. “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

142. “I hated that she was alone. She was always alone, and she shouldn’t have been, because she should’ve been with me.”

— Penelope Douglas

143. “I want to be everything she sees.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

145. “Becoming hard at heart isn’t an intersection in your brain where you have a choice to turn left or right. It’s coming to a dead end, and you just keep going, over the cliff, unable to stop the inevitable, because the truth is you just don’t want to.”

— Penelope Douglas

146. “People who are wound that tight are unpredictable.”

— Penelope Douglas

147. “I’d loved Emory since the moment I laid eyes on her when I was fourteen.”

— Penelope Douglas

148. “Challenge accepted, Tatum. This time I don’t want you hurt,” he continued, his breath falling over me as he got in my face, “and I don’t want you small. I just want you. Do you hear me?” He jerked me into his body. “It will be my ring on your finger and my kids in your belly someday.”

— Penelope Douglas

149. “I have no life there if you’re not in it. You’re part of everything good I’ve ever done, Ryen. Please.”

— Penelope Douglas

150. “Having Damon around was the only time I ever felt solid in my life,” he told me. “He’s powerful. But painful.”

— Penelope Douglas