Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “People will think what they want to think, not because they believe they are right, but because it’s in their nature to maintain that they are. By defending yourself, you feed the appetite for drama. By not, you’ve ended the conversation.”

— Penelope Douglas

202. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

204. “L’appel du vide.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

207. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

210. “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

211. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

213. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

218. “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

219. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

222. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

226. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

228. “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

229. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

233. “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

234. “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

235. “You always wait for tomorrow. But let me clue you in. Tomorrow was yesterday.”

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

242. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

244. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

246. “When you have kids, your hopes transfer to them. Your life takes a backseat to what they need.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

248. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas