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

252. “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

253. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

255. “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?”

— Penelope Douglas

256. “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

257. “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

258. “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

259. “L’appel du vide.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

261. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

264. “Masen is Misha.”

— Penelope Douglas

265. “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

266. “It’s the dancing woman.”

— Penelope Douglas

267. “Such a strange feeling, something so big, reminding you that you’re small, but also reminding you that you’re part of a world full of magnificent things. What a great thing to be able to see – and relearn – every day.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

269. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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.”

— Penelope Douglas

271. “If you don’t grow, you die. I don’t want to die. I don’t want to be this anymore.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

273. “But breaking was beautiful. It hurt, and it was an uphill climb back to sanity, but you came back stronger, fiercer, and more solid than you were before.”

— Penelope Douglas

274. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

275. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

277. “It’s hard to find that one person who speaks your language.”

— Penelope Douglas

278. “Yesterday is gone.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

283. “Once my gaze met his, it was impossible to look away. His eyes were like the cover of a book – giving you hints but not the whole story. And I wanted to know the story. If I searched his eyes long and hard enough, maybe what I craved would seep out.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

285. “I love you,” he said.”

— Penelope Douglas

286. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

287. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

289. “When and if she comes around, take her somewhere, just the two of you.” What? “It’s called a date,” she explained, “and it’s where you do something she likes that makes her happy. You and she will keep your clothes on for this.”

— Penelope Douglas

290. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

291. “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

292. “Because if there’s one thing they know about revenge, Damon, it’s that it won’t feel nearly as good as her love will.”

— Penelope Douglas

293. “I won’t let you go ag – ” He stopped.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

295. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

296. “I pulled my hand down, holding it with my right, as I looked at the ring.”

— Penelope Douglas

297. “I’ll meet you outside.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

299. “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

300. “I pulled Dylan up onto my lap, her little yellow Chucks rubbing against my shins. “Hi, Daddy,” she chirped. “I miss you.”

— Penelope Douglas