Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “The less you know, the more you fear, so go learn more.”

— Penelope Douglas

302. “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

303. “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

304. “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

305. “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

306. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

308. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

310. “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

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

315. “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

316. “I’ll meet you outside.”

— Penelope Douglas

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

320. “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

321. “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

322. “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

323. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

327. “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

328. “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

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

332. “It wasn’t the fight that got you. It was the lure that you could always quit.”

— Penelope Douglas

333. “Yeah, they’re just matches,” I continued, my voice growing thick with tears. “And memories and smells and sounds and butterflies in my stomach every time I heard the car door slam outside, telling me that he was home. A thousand dreams of all the places I’d have adventures someday.”

— Penelope Douglas

334. “Most of the matchbooks and little boxes were made of paper, and even if the matches dried out, the containers were split, torn, and shriveled. The damp cardboard dripped with water, discolored and broken.”

— Penelope Douglas

335. “Now I wished I tried more and wasn’t so afraid to put myself out there. Maybe if I had reached out for new experiences, I’d known what I wanted to do with my life. Now my options felt limited, because I’d held myself back in high school...”

— Penelope Douglas

336. “The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

338. “There’s always a reason why things are as they are.”

— Penelope Douglas

339. “Because life is only happy when it’s shared.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

341. “Then you have the gas.” He smirked, and his eyes stayed on me as he revved the engine but didn’t go anywhere. “Working the two together, you find the sweet spot. The point where she lets you take control.”

— Penelope Douglas

342. “I like you,” he told me. “I want you in my house. I want to see you in my bed. I don’t want to not see you every day. Be with me tonight.”

— Penelope Douglas

343. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

344. “When he was in prison, he was here. When I wanted to want other men, he was here. When I danced, when I cried, whenever I was alone, and when I was quiet in a room full of people and thinking about him, he was here. The truth was, I’d had what Michael and Rika had. I thought I had anyway. Those days were when I was the happiest. Even though it was a lie, it was the best I’d ever felt. Damon. It was useless to close the door. My fight wasn’t enough. He couldn’t be contained. I had to let go.”

— Penelope Douglas

345. “It’s simply finding the choice that leaves me with the most options and the least consequences.”

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346. “I buried my masked face in her neck and tightened my arms around her. Possessive. Threatening.”

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347. “Hey, it’s not the label on the jeans but what’s inside that matters.” And he hefted me up, gripping my ass and pressing me to him.”

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348. “I’ve seen lots of bad love, Pike,” she says. “We both have, haven’t we?” And then she does the barest of grinds on me, awakening my body immediately. “This is the good kind. When you find it, you keep it. Nothing is more important.”

— Penelope Douglas

349. “I wanted her to dream, but this was where dreams were dangerous. Nothing ever happened how you wanted it to.”

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350. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas