Top 500 Penelope Douglas Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “Pink. She reminds me of things that are flamingo pink. And water guns and treehouses and fresh-cut grass. I can smell sunscreen, all of it reminding me of being a kid. She’s like it’s summer all the time.”

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402. “I wonder how many guys have kissed you since. But then, I guess I don’t really care, because I was first, and that’s all that matters.”

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

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

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405. “Pretty sure slamming my nipple in a car door would be less painful.”

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406. “Because beauty is in the small things and character is in the flaws, and learning that fact can’t be taught or told.”

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

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

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

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410. “Smiles will come again, and time heals some wounds and soothes the onesie can’t.”

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411. “I’d changed her forever. I’d bent and twisted and broken everything that made her the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.”

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412. “I might kiss you again when we’re older,” he says. “Just so you know.”

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

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415. “I darted my eyes to hers. “Don’t let me go,” I told her, breathing hard. “No matter what you hear or what they say, don’t let me go.”

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416. “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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417. “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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418. “The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?”

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

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

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421. “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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422. “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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423. “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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424. “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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425. “I do what I want, when I want, and nothing for your pleasure.”

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

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

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429. “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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430. “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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431. “I’m stronger now,” I whispered. “I won’t let you fall.”

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432. “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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433. “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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434. “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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435. “Can we do that again?”

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436. “It’s holding him tightly and loving him slowly.”

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437. “Six months ago, I ran from a life of people who wouldn’t talk to me and ended up falling for a guy who may never say a word to me.”

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438. “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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439. “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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440. “When your enemies didn’t know your limits, they didn’t press them.”

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

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

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

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

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

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449. “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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450. “The devil I know is better than the devil I don’t, okay?”

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