Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

352. “Real monsters don’t wear masks,” I teased. He shrugged. “Real monsters might not care about being identified, either. No mask, no fun for you.” Aw, my man. Layin’ down the law. God, it turned me on.”

— Penelope Douglas

353. “It’s as good a place as any,” I reply softly, placing some condiments back onto the door shelf. “Why?” “Because you’re still you, no matter where you go,” I retort.”

— Penelope Douglas

354. “The world has plans for you, baby. Whether you’re ready or not. You can be either a driver or a passenger.”

— Penelope Douglas

355. “FYI, your mom wouldn’t date your dad if she could make that choice again. -Punk.”

— Penelope Douglas

356. “We didn’t do drugs, we were the drugs.”

— Penelope Douglas

357. “You can’t speak for a world when you only understand one point of view.”

— Penelope Douglas

358. “Stop it.” “I give you everything you need,” he fought, his voice turning angry as he dived into my neck.”

— Penelope Douglas

359. “Do you know what this is?” I took my middle finger and patted the corner of my eye with it. “It’s me, wiping away the last tear you’ll ever get.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

361. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

362. “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

363. “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

364. “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

365. “The truth was, you’re happier when you’re needed and stronger when you’re loved.”

— Penelope Douglas

366. “But nowadays,” she keeps going, “we don’t hold a woman responsible for a man’s behavior.”

— Penelope Douglas

367. “We were kids once, and we liked ourselves. We were happy. How did that change?”

— Penelope Douglas

368. “I’d really like to do that to you right now,” a voice said in my ear, and I popped my eyes open, noticing Alex had come to stand at my back. “I’d like to strip you down and bury my tongue between your legs.”

— Penelope Douglas

369. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

371. “I love it when you get mouthy,” he whispered down on me. “It makes me want to shut you up.”

— Penelope Douglas

372. “In our hearts, we always know what’s right and wrong. That’s not the struggle. The struggle is wanting what’s wrong for you and gauging whether or not the consequences are worth it.”

— Penelope Douglas

373. “Did you know that your open thighs are directly responsible for my renewable energy source?”

— Penelope Douglas

374. “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

375. “She answers it, holding it to her ear. “Mom,” she says, breathless.”

— Penelope Douglas

376. “I grinned. “You’re absolved, right?” I asked him, reminding him of his confession this morning. “You need new sins for next week. Don’t worry. You’ll like it.”

— Penelope Douglas

377. “Turns out my dream girl belongs to the one person it would kill me to hurt.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

379. “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

380. “For all intents and purposes, he was a fun guy.”

— Penelope Douglas

381. “I always wish for the same thing, and every day it comes true.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

383. “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

384. “I don’t want to want things I’ll probably never have. It’ll hurt too much. I don’t want to know about the things missing from my life. I’m happier that way.”

— Penelope Douglas

385. “Whether or not he still wanted me, I knew he wouldn’t want anyone else to have me.”

— Penelope Douglas

386. “I don’t know, baby,” I told her. “Just don’t let me go, okay?”

— Penelope Douglas

387. “Jared is about as revealing as a hermit crab. He’s like one of those piggy banks that you have to break to get anything out of. You can’t just shake him and he’ll give up the goods. You have to get the hammer.”

— Penelope Douglas

388. “Fear wasn’t the enemy. It was the teacher.”

— Penelope Douglas

389. “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.”

— Penelope Douglas

390. “Unease set in. Had Trevor left me a present?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

392. “Can we do that again?”

— Penelope Douglas

393. “He never gave up. Deep down, I loved that, because I was going to be an effort for anyone, and he wasn’t easily discouraged.”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

395. “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

396. “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

397. “And over time I came to understand that my oldest brother was only twenty-three that night, and twenty-three is still so young. That he was suddenly in charge of three minors to feed and clothe, a mountain of debt, and the prospect that life would never be more than this for him.”

— Penelope Douglas

398. “Why should I have to change my name? Who made that rule anyway?”

— Penelope Douglas

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

— Penelope Douglas

400. “Because you can’t win if you don’t play.”

— Penelope Douglas