Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

203. “A man who endeavored to be better was already superior to the men who claimed to be great.”

— Penelope Douglas

204. “We don’t need food to survive this life as much as we need our hearts broken at least once. But the best part is, the first break is always the worst. It’ll never feel this bad.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

206. “The problem with quitting smoking is it’s really hard if you never fully quit.”

— Penelope Douglas

207. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

210. “And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don’t drag each other down. You hold each other up.”

— Penelope Douglas

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

215. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

216. “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

217. “Time passes by you like a bullet,” he says, “and fear gives you the excuses you’re craving to not do the things you know you should. Don’t doubt yourself, don’t second-guess, don’t let fear hold you back, don’t be lazy, and don’t base your decisions on how happy it will make others. Just go for it, okay?”

— Penelope Douglas

218. “I stay there, glowering, because I believe him, but I don’t want to. Sometimes it just feels good to be mad.”

— Penelope Douglas

219. “Some people can’t stop what happens to them,” I said. “They’re just born in the wrong.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

221. “I bite my bottom lip, trying not to cry. I never cry in front of them.”

— Penelope Douglas

222. “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

223. “Masen is Misha.”

— Penelope Douglas

224. “What they don’t tell you is that you’re more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen.”

— Penelope Douglas

225. “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

226. “One pain at a time.”

— Penelope Douglas

227. “You know the great thing about family?” I mused. “They weren’t your choice, so you’re not responsible. The great thing about friends is that you can choose them.”

— Penelope Douglas

228. “Making sure the girl who got out a few minutes ago is tucked back inside, down deep.”

— Penelope Douglas

229. “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

230. “Under a black flag we sail.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

232. “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

233. “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

234. “You are written all over my body... the tattoos can never be erased. You hold my heart, and you can never be replaced.”

— Penelope Douglas

235. “Dude, I dare you,” he challenged like he knew something. “She’s beautiful, but I’d wait until she’s legal.” “I’ll try,” I heard Michael say. “A year did her a lot of good, too. She’s getting harder not to notice.”

— Penelope Douglas

236. “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

237. “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

238. “Then it hit me. No one is immune to emotion when those chords are pulled. No one.”

— Penelope Douglas

239. “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

240. “L’appel du vide.”

— Penelope Douglas

241. “It was the only time I didn’t feel lost.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

244. “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

245. “I want to be outside. I want to be in a tree. I want to be wet. I want to be on the forest floor as the rain hits the leaves above. I like that sound. I want to be warm. I want to hold something. I want to talk to my dad. I want to be tired, so I can sleep more, and I want to walk. I want to be in love. I want to be safe. I want to be over. I want things in my head to be gone.”

— Penelope Douglas

246. “Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.”

— Penelope Douglas

247. “He makes me laugh, and when I’m with him, I’m home. Like he’s the only thing in my life I understand. But I don’t understand myself anymore. Someone has to fight for me for a change.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

249. “It’s yours now.” He met my eyes. “It’s been yours for nearly ten years.” I stared up at him, tears blurring my vision. He was going to ask me himself?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas