Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “No matter how you cover yourself, it’s never enough. You’re beautiful.”

— Penelope Douglas

152. “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

153. “Blood isn’t love, and love is the only thing that begets loyalty.”

— Penelope Douglas

154. “Sometimes, we all need to hide.”

— Penelope Douglas

155. “I hated him. He was everything bad that happened to me. But he was the only time – other than dancing – that I felt alive, too. Being with him was like dancing. Dancing with death.”

— Penelope Douglas

156. “None of us are unique in our suffering. But we are unique in our survival.”

— Penelope Douglas

157. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

159. “Lust greater than I’ve ever known, because when we’re like this, it’s the only time she softens and changes and gives me an inch, and it’s a need that’s in my head just as much as my body. It keeps me on my toes.”

— Penelope Douglas

160. “You’re not still a virgin, are you?” he asked, probably suspicious when I didn’t answer. “I mean, Damon took care of that a long time ago, right?” Bile rose up, swelling my throat, and I pushed his hands away. “You’re disgusting,” I gritted out, my eyes burning with tears. How could he be so vile? But he just laughed me off and.”

— Penelope Douglas

161. “This is black,” he said. “Fear, falling, release. Excitement, risk, danger.”

— Penelope Douglas

162. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

164. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

166. “I didn’t want her first time. I wanted every time. But I didn’t want to love her, either. I didn’t want it to feel like this. It couldn’t feel like this.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

168. “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

169. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

170. “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

171. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

175. “Nothing, nothing, nothing. I might lie a lot, but at least I say something.”

— Penelope Douglas

176. “I’m too old. She’s too young. This was a mistake.”

— Penelope Douglas

177. “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

178. “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

179. “They all thought I was a good girl, Michael.” I dragged his lobe through my teeth. “But there’s so many bad things I want to do. Do dirty things to me.”

— Penelope Douglas

180. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

182. “As my friend, I liked you,” I whispered. “As my enemy, I craved you. As a fighter, I loved you, and as my wife” – I slid the ring the rest of the way on – “I keep you.” I squeezed her hand. “Forever,” I promised.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

186. “You’re crawling inside yourself. You don’t just want out of the room. You want out of your skin.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

188. “You gave people a chance, and they abused it. That’s their fault, not yours.”

— Penelope Douglas

189. “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

190. “I never make mistakes,” I replied. “I’m either right or I’m learning. Jaku niku kyo shoku.”

— Penelope Douglas

191. “I want to take you to movies and hang out and go for drives and sit you on my lap like this whenever I want. And when we’re ready, we’ll take a long drive down to the inlet and to my family’s boathouse, and I’ll go slow with you.”

— Penelope Douglas

192. “The space was so small, people were packed in here, but we slid in.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

194. “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

195. “The perk about being the quiet girl was not many people really got to know you, which left you the advantage of surprise if you ever decided to switch gears in situations just like this.”

— Penelope Douglas

196. “Where do you hide when their highs are your lows?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

200. “The more you suffered, the more you survived. It shaped people in different ways, and what broke one person could empower another.”

— Penelope Douglas