Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “This is special. It’s different. it’s unique and all mine. She and I... we’re alone in the universe. No one was us.”

— Penelope Douglas

252. “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

253. “Masen is Misha.”

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254. “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

255. “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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256. “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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257. “Drugs are a crutch for people too ignorant to self-destruct on their own.”

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

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259. “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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260. “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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261. “I’d loved Emory since the moment I laid eyes on her when I was fourteen.”

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262. “I hated that she was alone. She was always alone, and she shouldn’t have been, because she should’ve been with me.”

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

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264. “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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265. “She hides her insecurities behind flighty behaviour and sarcasm.”

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266. “I have no life there if you’re not in it. You’re part of everything good I’ve ever done, Ryen. Please.”

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267. “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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268. “That was my girl, scarred, tattered soul, and all. She was beautiful.”

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269. “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.”

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270. “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

271. “Under a black flag we sail.”

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

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

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

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276. “A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more than block her view. She needs a man standing next to her, so grow up.”

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277. “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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278. “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.”

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

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280. “I wanted her to love me again. I wanted her to say she was mine. And I didn’t want to have to bully her about it, either.”

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

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282. “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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283. “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.”

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284. “I’ll meet you outside.”

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285. “It’s the dancing woman.”

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

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

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288. “I never wanted other women... I left so that I could be a man for you. So I could come back for you.”

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289. “Leaning over the table, I close my eyes, take in a breath, and make my usual wish Let tomorrow be better than today. And I blow, almost instantly smelling the pungent stream of smoke curling into the air from the extinguished wick. It’s always the same wish. Every candle. Every time. I want a life I never want to take a vacation from. That’s my goal.”

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

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291. “Everything was pure and sweet, just for that short amount of time, and this was how it was supposed to happen. It was always going to happen with us. I wanted to feel her on me. Her skin on mine. I wanted every inch of her.”

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292. “Evans Crist – and my father – had yours killed.”

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293. “This isn’t high school,” I said, eyeing him playfully. “You’re way out of your depth.”

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294. “So many times of needing to be close to her, talk to her, see her smile at me, and now I had her in my arms, I never wanted to let her go.”

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295. “He jerked me into him, going faster and harder, and the feel of him sliding in and out of me, finally taking me, was doing nothing to ease my need. I was hungrier.”

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296. “Okay, lesson on Tate and music. If fans do anything less than carve the band’s name into their skin, then the band isn’t worth listening to. Any music that involves more than jumping around and banging your head is about as exciting as Kenny G to her.”

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

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298. “This is what happened when you fell in love. You lost your nerve, because you didn’t want to lose what had become more important.”

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299. “It gets better, you are important, and you can’t be replaced. Hang on. You’ll fing youre tribe.”

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300. “They’re passing thoughts and little dares we allow our psyche, because we’re tired of not living and we want the fear. We want to remember why we want to live.”

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