Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Birthday wishes don’t always come true, so I don’t waste a chance when I blow out a candle.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

103. “Most people, he’d once told me, don’t do great things, because great things don’t feel great when you’re doing them.”

— Penelope Douglas

104. “You kissed my hair while sticking me in the heart. But your house will break before I fall apart. -Punk.”

— Penelope Douglas

105. “Own who you are.”

— Penelope Douglas

106. “I love you, Michael.”

— Penelope Douglas

107. “Anything to not need you, Anything to not fall for you, Anything to look at a girl who’s not you, But baby, there’s nothing but you.”

— Penelope Douglas

108. “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

109. “It doesn’t hurt, through. Not at all. It actually feels kind of good, because the annying sting of the cut is suddenly gone. Just gone. Like a kill switch.”

— Penelope Douglas

110. “We want what we want.”

— Penelope Douglas

111. “I think too many people give others too much power over them. But if they’re not missing you or thinking about you or wanting to be near you, then it’s time to realize you’re worth someone who does.”

— Penelope Douglas

112. “I mean, look at them,” he told me. “Banks, Winter, Em, Rika... Women are only vulnerable, because they’re the last to be taught to fight. I want to put a woman like them into the world.”

— Penelope Douglas

113. “Our scrapes and bruises, tattoos, scars, smiles, and wrinkles told our stories, and I didn’t want a pristine piece of wallpaper. I wanted her and everything she was. At least for tonight.”

— Penelope Douglas

114. “Mads Mori. Poor kid sounded like an assassin.”

— Penelope Douglas

115. “You left bruises all over my tits this morning,” I tell him, “and if you’re not nice, I won’t let you kiss them better later.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

117. “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

118. “His mouth covered mine, and we kissed, going hard and fast, eating each other alive. He tasted like everything I’d ever need.”

— Penelope Douglas

119. “I wish I could see you for real,” I told him. “I want to know what you look like when you look at me.”

— Penelope Douglas

120. “He was soft and slow, gentle and attentive. Possessive.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

122. “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

123. “Reap, reap, reap, you don’t even know, all you did suffer is what you did sow.”

— Penelope Douglas

124. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

127. “He’s a reminder of what I want to feel everyday, whether it’s with him or on my own. He’s taught me that who I am when I’m with him feels too good to sacrifice for the approval of everyone else. The way I dress, the guys I talk to, the games I play... it’s all plastic, and when I’m with him, I’m gold.”

— Penelope Douglas

128. “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

129. “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

130. “I learned a long time ago that you don’t need to reveal everything inside of you to the people around you. They like to judge, and I’m happier when they don’t. Some things stay hidden.”

— Penelope Douglas

131. “He nibbles, bites, and sucks on my neck, shoulders, and over my shoulder blades as he continues kneading my breast and making my panties so wet as he rubs me through them.”

— Penelope Douglas

132. “And I know right then and there I want to be the only girl he ever looks at like that.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

134. “Own it. Don’t apologize for who you are. Own it. You can’t win if you don’t show up, right?”

— Penelope Douglas

135. “I miss you every day, I write. You’re my favorite place.”

— Penelope Douglas

136. “Maturity is more the result of experience than age.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

138. “But no one’s better off without you.”

— Penelope Douglas

139. “We’re going to rule the world, Rika... You, Banks, and me.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

141. “Will, Michael, and Kai were my friends, and I’d walk through fire for any one of them. Will was the only one, though, who I was sure would walk through fire for me.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

144. “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

145. “Your body can only feel one pain at a time.”

— Penelope Douglas

146. “You think I would let her touch me?” he whispers, hefting me up high. “Only you’re allowed to touch me.”

— Penelope Douglas

147. “I’d loved Emory since the moment I laid eyes on her when I was fourteen. “From that moment on, it seemed I was always aware of her, and everything I did, I did it with it in mind that she was watching.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

150. “Eventually we all have to weigh what we want more: wanting back what we had or wanting what could be. To stay or to risk everything to move forward.”

— Penelope Douglas