Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “They were untouchable, fascinating, and nothing they ever did was wrong. I wanted that. I wanted to look down at the sky.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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.”

— Penelope Douglas

204. “I’m not gay,” she says quietly, and I have to strain to hear her over the rain. “I’m just in love with you.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

206. “People who are wound that tight are unpredictable.”

— Penelope Douglas

207. “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

208. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

212. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

215. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

218. “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

219. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

221. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

223. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

226. “Masen is Misha.”

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227. “When she removes her makeup, taking off her brave face for the day, do the demons she keeps buried start playing with her when there’s no one else to play with?”

— Penelope Douglas

228. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

230. “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

231. “One pain at a time.”

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

— 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. “Under a black flag we sail.”

— Penelope Douglas

235. “Dip your toe in every ocean and try everything and anything.”

— Penelope Douglas

236. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

238. “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

239. “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

240. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

242. “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

243. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

245. “L’appel du vide.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

249. “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

250. “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