Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Dip your toe in every ocean and try everything and anything.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

255. “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

256. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

258. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

260. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

262. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

266. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

267. “She was mine, and I was hers, and it would never break. I closed my eyes, breathing her in. “I love you so much,” I whispered, tightening my hold on her. “This is where I live.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

270. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

271. “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

272. “He was untouchable, and he wanted to touch me.”

— Penelope Douglas

273. “I like crazy. She can be fire or ice, I don’t care, I just need her to be one of them. And even better if it’s both.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

275. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

276. “I’ll never say no,” she answered but then added with a smile in her voice, “as long as you keep me screaming yes.”

— Penelope Douglas

277. “Decent men don’t do this,” I tell her. “But that’s why I wanted this one. She’s a devil, just like me.”

— Penelope Douglas

278. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

279. “I shouldn’t be able to look at her. I shouldn’t love to touch her, and I shouldn’t need to feel her wrapped around my cock every second since I’d first had her last night. She wasn’t mine. She would never be mine. And I shouldn’t want her.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

281. “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!”

— Penelope Douglas

282. “She laid her head on my chest, holding me close. I loved it when she did that. All the time I spent thinking she didn’t need me, and now I knew she did. She didn’t hold me. She held on to me.”

— Penelope Douglas

283. “Because I’m only worth anything if someone wants to love me.”

— Penelope Douglas

284. “Having Damon around was the only time I ever felt solid in my life,” he told me. “He’s powerful. But painful.”

— Penelope Douglas

285. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

286. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

287. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

288. “No kid wants to be different. They want to belong, they desire the approval of others, and they, most often, aren’t yet mentally strong enough to be able to stand alone. As we get older, though, most of us develop that capability. We learn that nothing feels better than truly loving yourself, even if it means those around you do not. We joyously find that we just don’t give a damn anymore. And.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

290. “You were my tempest, my thunder cloud, my tree in the downpour. I loved all of those things, and I loved you.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

292. “I knew I was Superman.”

— Penelope Douglas

293. “It’s the dancing woman.”

— Penelope Douglas

294. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

296. “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

297. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

300. “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