Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Masen is Misha.”

— Penelope Douglas

202. “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

203. “A ship at harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”

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204. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

205. “His mouth covered mine, and we kissed, going hard and fast, eating each other alive. He tasted like everything I’d ever need.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

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207. “But let me tell you something, girl,” she goes on, speaking low and discreet for the few customers in the place. “What you feel for him or anyone else isn’t what you need. This – ” she taps my chest over my heart, “what you’re feeling right now – is the best thing that can happen to you. Because when all the pieces of your heart start to come back together, and they will, they’ll be stronger. And much tougher for someone to pierce.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

209. “I’m too old. She’s too young. This was a mistake.”

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

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211. “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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212. “But the girl of my dreams is off-limits. She’s Cole’s, and she’s nineteen. There’s no way.”

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213. “He didn’t touch me. He’d just put his arms around me and held me, not getting greedy or trying to get more out of me or anything.”

— Penelope Douglas

214. “I’m going to hell. I’m pretty sure she’d going to drag me there herself.”

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215. “Well, it’s like you’re saving your energy for something. Holding back. But it doesn’t make any sense. Life is one-way, and there is no return trip. What are you waiting for?”

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216. “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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217. “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

218. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

219. “They all thought I was a good girl, Michael.” I dragged his lobe through my teeth. “But there’s so many bad things I want to do. Do dirty things to me.”

— Penelope Douglas

220. “Because you can’t win if you don’t play.”

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221. “This is what we were built for, Michael. You and me.”

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222. “It’s as good a place as any,” I reply softly, placing some condiments back onto the door shelf. “Why?” “Because you’re still you, no matter where you go,” I retort.”

— Penelope Douglas

223. “When you’re cared for, you care for others.”

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224. “The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?”

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225. “I want a life I never want to take a vacation from.”

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226. “Your body can only feel one pain at a time.”

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

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228. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

229. “Aw, my man. Layin’ down the law. God, it turned me on.”

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230. “Yeah, you’re going to be in my bed, baby, but not until you wish you hated me.”

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231. “God, she feels good. She looks like she’d be pudding in your fist. Soft. Too soft. It was so good, though. Those seconds on the car that she let me bury my face in her body. Her skin is like water. I want her smell in my bed. And in my hair. And never far away from me.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

233. “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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234. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

235. “They run around like they own the whole world, but I guess wolves born on a leash never know they shouldn’t be wearing one.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

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237. “I’ll meet you outside.”

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238. “It’s the dancing woman.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

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

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241. “The secret of life that everyone knew and everyone forgot was that we weren’t alone. We thought we were unique. We thought we were the first.”

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242. “I was there when she was five and eight and thirteen, so you remember where you and she started the next time you want to imply you have any more responsibility or love for her than I do,” he bites out. “My woman. Sit down.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

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245. “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

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

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247. “We can be confused about what is good for us but not about what we truly want.”

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248. “The only way we find out what we’re capable of is by getting into a little trouble.”

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249. “Sometimes people have to make their own mistakes and feel the pain.”

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250. “You make me feel driven. You make me hungry and on fire and wanting to slow down time instead of wanting to rush through it. It’s you I look for when I walk in the doors in the morning. Not her. You.”

— Penelope Douglas