Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

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153. “There were dark deeds and bad seeds, but who cared if the house was falling apart as long as it was pretty, right?”

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154. “I love you, okay?” I rushed out. “I love you like crazy, and I’ve never said that to a woman before, but I’m completely in love with you, Easton Bradbury.”

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155. “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

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

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157. “Well, it’s like you’re saving your energy for something. Holding back. But it doesn’t make any sense. Life is one-way, and there is no return trip. What are you waiting for?”

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158. “Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance,” I recited Confucius as we slowed down. She pinched her eyebrows together, breathing hard. “Why?” “Because a weapon of death shouldn’t be in the hand of someone who hasn’t lived.” You can’t speak for a world when you only understand one point of view.”

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159. “Why do I care so much what the other girls think? Why do I want to be friends with them? I try to be nice, but it’s never good enough. But they’re mean and everyone loves them. Why is that?”

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

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161. “We want what we want.”

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

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163. “Hang on. You’ll find your tribe.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “It was such a shame. Jared was stunningly gorgeous, and once upon a time, he was a good guy. If things had been different, I could be his. Once upon a time, I thought I was his. But I wouldn’t be sacrificing my pride to him. Ever. Again.”

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

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167. “She needs a lot, and all of them are things you can’t buy. She needs to laugh and get drunk. She needs to be tickled and cuddled and carried and teased. I don’t want to see her cry, but if she does, I want her to know there’s comfort. She has a home.”

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168. “Refusing yourself the things you need to feel alive only brings two consequences: detriment or death.”

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169. “She corrupted me.”

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170. “The only way we find out what we’re capable of is by getting into a little trouble.”

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171. “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.”

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

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173. “He didn’t touch me. He’d just put his arms around me and held me, not getting greedy or trying to get more out of me or anything.”

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174. “People will think what they want to think, not because they believe they are right, but because it’s in their nature to maintain that they are. By defending yourself, you feed the appetite for drama. By not, you’ve ended the conversation.”

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175. “I was there when she was five and eight and thirteen, so you remember where you and she started the next time you want to imply you have any more responsibility or love for her than I do,” he bites out. “My woman. Sit down.”

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176. “He presses his body into mine, taking my waist in one hand and planting his other hand on the wall above my head, and dips his forehead down to mine, looking into my eyes.”

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

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178. “God, she feels good. She looks like she’d be pudding in your fist. Soft. Too soft. It was so good, though. Those seconds on the car that she let me bury my face in her body. Her skin is like water. I want her smell in my bed. And in my hair. And never far away from me.”

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179. “A ship at harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”

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180. “Women always have to ask questions they really don’t want the answers to.”

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181. “There are just some things that are more exciting when they’re a secret.”

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

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183. “But he still should’ve confronted me. What were they hoping to gain with revenge, other than pleasure in someone else’s torture? Would it accomplish anything, take away what happened, or move their lives forward? Had their worlds become so small in prison?”

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184. “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.”

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

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186. “Sometimes, I just had to watch her. I had to keep my eyes on her, because it was still so hard to believe that she was real. That she was here and mine.”

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187. “We haven’t smiled together in a while, and it’s starting to not come naturally anymore.”

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188. “She’s not a bomb. She’s patient, quiet, unyielding, and permanent. She withstands. Like steel. Like an ax.”

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

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190. “The world respected people who didn’t crave approval.”

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

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

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193. “He made himself the cure, which wouldn’t have been necessary if he hadn’t also created the disease.”

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194. “No matter how you cover yourself, it’s never enough. You’re beautiful.”

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

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196. “What do you think was the only thing that made me keep breathing?” My tone hardened as I clenched my jaw. “In my brain, I reached for you. I never stopped reaching for you.”

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197. “But the best part is, the first break is always the worst. It’ll never feel this bad again.”

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198. “Territorial is fine when it’s in the bedroom. It’s not fine when it keeps someone you’re supposed to love from living a life.”

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199. “This is special. It’s different. it’s unique and all mine. She and I... we’re alone in the universe. No one was us.”

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200. “I rolled my eyes so far back in my head I almost saw my brain.”

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