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

202. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

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205. “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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206. “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

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

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

— Penelope Douglas

212. “Maturity is more the result of experience than age.”

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

215. “One pain at a time.”

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216. “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

217. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

219. “I wanted to look down at the sky.”

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

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

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222. “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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223. “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

224. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

226. “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?”

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227. “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

228. “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

229. “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

230. “L’appel du vide.”

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

— Penelope Douglas

232. “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

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

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

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235. “Masen is Misha.”

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236. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

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

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240. “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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241. “Under a black flag we sail.”

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242. “I guessed we’ve all built ourselves up through sadness, disappointment, and experience. It just happens at different times and in different ways.”

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243. “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.”

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244. “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

245. “And from Michael – as well as Damon, Will, and Kai – I learned to breathe fire. I learned to walk as if the path were carved for me and me alone, and to treat the world as if it should know I was coming.”

— Penelope Douglas

246. “What if her heart had hardened so much that she closed herself off in order to survive?”

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247. “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

248. “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

249. “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.”

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250. “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