Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “The watermelon juice spilling over your lip?” he indicated. “Lick it up or I will.”

— Penelope Douglas

252. “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

253. “Masen is Misha.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

255. “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

256. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

257. “One pain at a time.”

— Penelope Douglas

258. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

260. “It’s the dancing woman.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

263. “I love you,” he said.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

265. “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

266. “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

267. “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

268. “You always wait for tomorrow. But let me clue you in. Tomorrow was yesterday.”

— Penelope Douglas

269. “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

270. “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

271. “Promise you’ll never say no to me. Promise you’ll never keep yourself from me.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

273. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

277. “He makes me laugh, and when I’m with him, I’m home. Like he’s the only thing in my life I understand. But I don’t understand myself anymore. Someone has to fight for me for a change.”

— Penelope Douglas

278. “You gave people a chance, and they abused it. That’s their fault, not yours.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

280. “It’s yours now.” He met my eyes. “It’s been yours for nearly ten years.” I stared up at him, tears blurring my vision. He was going to ask me himself?”

— Penelope Douglas

281. “Where do you hide when their highs are your lows?”

— Penelope Douglas

282. “I guessed we’ve all built ourselves up through sadness, disappointment, and experience. It just happens at different times and in different ways.”

— Penelope Douglas

283. “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

284. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

286. “I’m full of thorns,” I say softly. “But there are things about me that I hope are worth it.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

288. “It’s only eight o’clock in the morning, and I think I’ve already had enough boys for one day.”

— Penelope Douglas

289. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

290. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

292. “Everyone is our type when they’re naked!”

— Penelope Douglas

293. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

297. “A single composition can have so many meanings depending on the person playing.”

— Penelope Douglas

298. “Come here,” he said again. I absently shook my head. “Why?” “Because I’m your man.”

— Penelope Douglas

299. “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

300. “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