Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “Your body can only feel one pain at a time.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

153. “I’m not gay,” she says quietly, and I have to strain to hear her over the rain. “I’m just in love with you.”

— Penelope Douglas

154. “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?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

157. “Real monsters don’t wear masks.”

— Penelope Douglas

158. “We’re only ever good, because there are consequences,” I told her. “Take those away, and everyone shows their true self. Kind of like taking off a mask.” “Or putting one on,” she replied. “After all, there’s freedom in hiding, isn’t there?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

160. “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

161. “A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. –Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”

— Penelope Douglas

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

165. “Yeah, you’re going to be in my bed, baby, but not until you wish you hated me.”

— Penelope Douglas

166. “She corrupted me.”

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

— Penelope Douglas

168. “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

169. “You belong to me more than you ever did to them.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

171. “I scoff and push away from him, but then suddenly, he grabs my arms hauling me back to him. I gasp as he puts his hands under my arms and lifts me off my feet, bringing me face to face with him like I’m five years old. “Oh, I may be out of practice, little girl,” he bites out in a threatening tone, “but I think I’ll figure it out.”

— Penelope Douglas

172. “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

173. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

174. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

176. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

179. “Once my gaze met his, it was impossible to look away. His eyes were like the cover of a book – giving you hints but not the whole story. And I wanted to know the story. If I searched his eyes long and hard enough, maybe what I craved would seep out.”

— Penelope Douglas

180. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

181. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

182. “They were untouchable, fascinating, and nothing they ever did was wrong. I wanted that. I wanted to look down at the sky.”

— Penelope Douglas

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?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

185. “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

186. “Drugs are a crutch for people too ignorant to self-destruct on their own.”

— Penelope Douglas

187. “I didn’t feel so lost when he was around. It was the only time I didn’t feel lost.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

190. “We want what we want.”

— Penelope Douglas

191. “This time I just wanted to run. I didn’t want anyone to see me, like I was so embarrassing I wanted to erase myself from people’s memories and cease to exist. Just disappear.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

193. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

194. “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

195. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

198. “Dip your toe in every ocean and try everything and anything.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

200. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas