Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “L’appel du vide.”

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202. “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.”

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203. “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.”

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204. “I pulled Dylan up onto my lap, her little yellow Chucks rubbing against my shins. “Hi, Daddy,” she chirped. “I miss you.”

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205. “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?”

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206. “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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207. “Yeah, go ahead and try to be your daddy, baby,” the guy eggs her on. “You fall short!” “Haven’t you heard?” she shouts out the window at him. “I’m a mama’s girl!” And she speeds up even more. “Dylan!”

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208. “She laid her head on my chest, holding me close. I loved it when she did that. All the time I spent thinking she didn’t need me, and now I knew she did. She didn’t hold me. She held on to me.”

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209. “Because I’m only worth anything if someone wants to love me.”

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

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211. “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.”

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212. “I could be a bad boy, and I needed to be disciplined.”

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

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214. “I’ll never say no,” she answered but then added with a smile in her voice, “as long as you keep me screaming yes.”

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215. “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.”

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

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217. “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.”

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218. “She corrupted me.”

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219. “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.”

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

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

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222. “I won’t let you go ag – ” He stopped.”

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223. “But breaking was beautiful. It hurt, and it was an uphill climb back to sanity, but you came back stronger, fiercer, and more solid than you were before.”

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

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225. “She’s describing us, I take it. “Number two is where you finally learn what you’re capable of,” she continues, tucking a loose strand from her ponytail behind her ear. “You start getting demanding. You grow bold, not afraid to start calling some shots. You’re also not afraid to be greedier in the bedroom, because it’s about what you want and not what he wants. Number two is to be used. In a way.”

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226. “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.”

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227. “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

228. “Alex was like Damon. They loved me. They indulged my dark side. They were too forgiving and too enabling. They kept me from being lonely, but Emory taught me that not everything I wanted was going to come easy. That there were things I was going to have to fight for and there was pain in the world that my shallow lifestyle in high school kept me ignorant of. She made me feel like a man.”

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229. “We will have kids. If you want them. But I will never not have you.” He shakes me. “Do you understand?” A sob lodges in my throat. “Do you understand?” he growls again. “A world where there is no us can’t happen.”

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

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231. “Masen is Misha.”

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232. “Things done in the dark hours of night, behind closed doors, or in the heat of the moment looked a lot different in the morning, out in the open, and with a clear head.”

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233. “Becoming hard at heart isn’t an intersection in your brain where you have a choice to turn left or right. It’s coming to a dead end, and you just keep going, over the cliff, unable to stop the inevitable, because the truth is you just don’t want to.”

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

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

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237. “If you don’t grow, you die. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be this anymore.”

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238. “She hides her insecurities behind flighty behaviour and sarcasm.”

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239. “I have no life there if you’re not in it. You’re part of everything good I’ve ever done, Ryen. Please.”

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240. “Having Damon around was the only time I ever felt solid in my life,” he told me. “He’s powerful. But painful.”

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241. “That was my girl, scarred, tattered soul, and all. She was beautiful.”

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242. “You weren’t born here. You were born billions of years ago, Aro. You’re stardust.” I look over, meeting her eyes. “The stars don’t need to see you. They know you.”

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243. “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.”

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

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245. “Madoc, it’s Jax,” he said in a serious tone. “I’m at your house. Tate and I want confirmation you’re not drunk, high, or suicidal. Jared’s here, but he could care less. We’ll meet you after your game, or I’ll give Tate a crowbar and set her to work on your car.”

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246. “Under a black flag we sail.”

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247. “A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more than block her view. She needs a man standing next to her, so grow up.”

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248. “So, we made a bet. She would get pregnant if I could get her pregnant. While she was on birth control. I knew I was Superman.”

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249. “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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250. “But Kaleb just waves a hand, shooing me away as he lies down next to her and pulls her into his body. I watch as she immediately falls in, burying her head in his neck as the cries subside and her breathing starts to calm. He yawns, pulling her sheet and blanket up over them like this is normal.”

— Penelope Douglas