Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “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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253. “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.”

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254. “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.”

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

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

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

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258. “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.”

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259. “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.”

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

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

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

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263. “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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264. “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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265. “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.”

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

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267. “The more you suffered, the more you survived. It shaped people in different ways, and what broke one person could empower another.”

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268. “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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269. “She and I were the same, after all. We fought shame every day, struggling with who we could let see the real us, and we’d finally found each other.”

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270. “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.”

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271. “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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272. “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.”

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273. “The watermelon juice spilling over your lip?” he indicated. “Lick it up or I will.”

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274. “We’re only ever good, because there are consequences,” I told her. “Take those away, and everyone shows their true self. Kind of like taking off a mask.”

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275. “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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276. “Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.”

— Penelope Douglas

277. “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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278. “Yesterday is gone.”

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279. “What did I see in him? The answer was so easy, I didn’t even have to think about it. It was the same thing he saw in me all those years ago down in the catacombs.”

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280. “I knew I was Superman.”

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

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283. “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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284. “It’s the dancing woman.”

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285. “A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more than block her view.”

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

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287. “I love you,” he said.”

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288. “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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289. “Tate always loved the rain. She came alive in it, and I hadn’t been able to enjoy seeing her like this in years. Part of me always wondered what magic she saw in thunderstorms, and part of me didn’t need to know. Just watching her was like hearing music in my head.”

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290. “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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291. “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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292. “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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293. “You always wait for tomorrow. But let me clue you in. Tomorrow was yesterday.”

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294. “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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295. “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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296. “I don’t think she’s sick, but she looks pale and tired.”

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297. “It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barley any separation between who we are and who they are.”

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298. “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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299. “Tell me more.” His breath fell across my lips. “I want to know everything my brother doesn’t do to you, you little liar.”

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300. “The less you know, the more you fear, so go learn more.”

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