Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I didn’t feel so lost when he was around. It was the only time I didn’t feel lost.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

204. “You’ve always wanted me. You know why? Because I don’t try to kill your demons. I run with them.”

— Penelope Douglas

205. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

211. “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

212. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

216. “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

217. “Under a black flag we sail.”

— Penelope Douglas

218. “Her heart was so shallow she couldn’t understand and know that I was real. Every moment with her, I was real. I would’ve been faithful, and I would’ve died protecting her.”

— Penelope Douglas

219. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

221. “L’appel du vide.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

223. “I guess I understood people letting themselves be used, even for just a night if it meant not being alone for once.”

— Penelope Douglas

224. “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

225. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

227. “Turns out my dream girl belongs to the one person it would kill me to hurt.”

— Penelope Douglas

228. “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

229. “Marriages, kids, a divorce – we’d all been through the ringer, and it was a wake-up call one day when I realized I’d been waiting for my life to start – my real life – only to realize that it had already happened when I wasn’t paying attention.”

— Penelope Douglas

230. “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

231. “Damon eats pain. He will find some way to take it and twist it and fit it down his throat, so he can swallow it. He’s made of it. You all can endure it until you overcome it, but Damon... he wants to be in hell.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

236. “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

237. “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

238. “I get to be me... ” he swallowed, staring at me, “when nightfall is coming.”

— Penelope Douglas

239. “Speak your mind, and you give others permission to do the same.”

— Penelope Douglas

240. “Challenge accepted, Tatum. This time I don’t want you hurt,” he continued, his breath falling over me as he got in my face, “and I don’t want you small. I just want you. Do you hear me?” He jerked me into his body. “It will be my ring on your finger and my kids in your belly someday.”

— Penelope Douglas

241. “I liked noise. Rain and birds and wind. I just didn’t like other peoples’ noise. It made the room feel small. Too small. I couldn’t think.”

— Penelope Douglas

242. “Will called us. “Alex,” he said, standing back and watching them. “Emory.” Alex immediately went to his side, but I stayed rooted. A fire lit behind his eyes. “I will raise hell and reduce this house to ash if you act like this is a choice for one more second!” he bellowed at me and then pointed to his side. “Now!” I jumped, tingles throbbing between my legs, and I clenched my teeth, walking over to him.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

244. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

246. “You see, Rika,” I told her. “There are people in the world who are destined to be played. Victims who wouldn’t be able to change their fate even if they went back and lived life over a thousand different ways.” I made a show of letting my eyes fall down her form. “And then there are players. Like you and me.” I gestured to the threesome. “Which piece would you move next?”

— Penelope Douglas

247. “Don’t you get it yet? You don’t have to be afraid or embarrassed. No one does you better than you. You can’t be replaced. Not everyone will see that, but only you need to.”

— Penelope Douglas

248. “Now get inside and take off your clothes. I’ve had a whole day to dream up the theme park I’m going to make of your body tonight, girl.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas