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

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352. “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.”

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353. “Own who you are. And don’t apologize. Own it or it will own you.”

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354. “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.”

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

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356. “I brought my fingers up. “If he didn’t touch you, then is this for me?”

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

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358. “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.”

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359. “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.”

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

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

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362. “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.”

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363. “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.”

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

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

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366. “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...”

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

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

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369. “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.”

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370. “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.”

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371. “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.”

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372. “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.”

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373. “I do what I want, when I want, and nothing for your pleasure.”

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

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

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377. “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.”

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378. “It’s a subtle gesture I actually love despite the building tension in the room. It’s his way of letting me know he might be angry, but he’s not angry with me, and he hates that I’m probably uncomfortable right now.”

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379. “I’m stronger now,” I whispered. “I won’t let you fall.”

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380. “I want to kill anyone for trying to take you away from me.” I reached my hands around her ass, feeling the strap of blades around her leg, and lifted her into my arms. “If I ever leave you, it’s because I’m dead.”

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381. “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.”

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382. “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.”

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383. “Can we do that again?”

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384. “No one does me better than me. I close my eyes again, hearing what he’s saying. I changed, because I didn’t think what I brought to the table was worthy enough. I let them make me believe that, but who made them authorities? I may no longer be adored, but I might not be so miserable, either. And I may eat alone, but that’s not such terrible company, is it?”

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385. “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.”

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386. “I would’ve taken you over my knee.”

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387. “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.”

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

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389. “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.”

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390. “Chess would teach me strategy, fencing would teach me human nature and self-preservation, and dancing would teach me my body. All necessary for a well-rounded person.”

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391. “She needs a lot, and all of them are things you can’t buy.”

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

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393. “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.”

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

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395. “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.”

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396. “I will raise hell and reduce this house to ash if you act like this is a choice for one more second!”

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397. “Using everything I had, I twisted and whipped the back of my hand across her face, sending her flying to the floor.”

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398. “I never wanted other women... I left so that I could be a man for you. So I could come back for you.”

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399. “But let me tell you something, girl,” she goes on, speaking low and discreet for the few customers in the place. “What you feel for him or anyone else isn’t what you need. This – ” she taps my chest over my heart, “what you’re feeling right now – is the best thing that can happen to you. Because when all the pieces of your heart start to come back together, and they will, they’ll be stronger. And much tougher for someone to pierce.”

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400. “It’s no excuse,” I pointed out. And she agreed. “No, it’s not.” she said. “It’s a reason. Plain and simple. There’s always a reason why things are as they are.”

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