Top 100 Penelope Douglas Quotes
#1. Yep. I'm totally familiar with that look. The I-can't-stand-the-fucking-sight-of-you-so-get-off-my-planet look. His
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#2. Can we just skip to the end?" I asked softly. "I'm tired of missing you,
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#3. 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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#4. The most valuable lesson anyone learns in life should be learned as early as possible. That you don't have to live in the reality someone else had invented. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. Ever.
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#6. She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.
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#7. I'm sorry," he whispered. "I know I can make this up to you. Don't hate me.
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#8. She and I were the same, after all. We fought shame every day, struggling with who we could let see the real us, and we'd finally found each other.
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#10. We can be confused about what is good for us but not about what we truly want.
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#11. We never lost that. As much as I tried, I
could never erase you from my heart. That's why I was such an asshole and kept guys away from you.
You were always mine.
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#12. Now, I knew more, and I knew what I wanted.
I wasn't afraid of taking it and taking chances.
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#14. I'm going to hell. I'm pretty sure she's going to drag me there herself.
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#15. Jared kept flashing me smirks, no doubt fully informed of his progress on Operation Kill Tate and K.C. The
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#16. 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.
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#17. Did you know that your open thighs are directly responsible for my renewable energy source?
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#18. You want to be loved without risking consequence, so you reach out to get the attention you need while enjoying the luxury of taking no responsibility for those words." I
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#19. 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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#20. Madoc was always calm, after all. So calm all the damn time growing up. He didn't shout or show his anger until he'd had enough. And you never knew exactly when that was going to be. That was the scary part about him.
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#22. They're hopes and wishes and reminders and all the times I smiled, knowing he'd remembered me while he was gone.
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#23. Madoc has a winning personality, and he's hot. But Jared is just hot. At least Madoc has more going for him. Was she on a mission from God to reform assholes?
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#24. The more you suffered, the more you survived. It shaped people in different ways, and what broke one person could empower another.
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#25. What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen
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#26. 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.
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#27. Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.
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#28. What was worse than losing you was when you started to hurt me. Your words and actions made me hate coming to school. They made me uncomfortable in my own home.
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#29. 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. Tate had obviously been through it, I had, and eventually so would K.C., I thought.
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#30. I can't change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I'd go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I'd make sure that you smiled." My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. "Every minute of my future belongs to you.
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#31. He smiled to himself. "Because she made you." And he wrapped his skinny arm around my neck and yanked me into his side. "You're the best friend I've ever had, and I wanted to tell her 'thank you.
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#32. His text took only a moment. You tell the guy you're dating that your boyfriend's back. I let my arms drift back down to the bed as I closed my eyes, sighing. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too. My phone beeped again. And he's gonna be in trouble . . .
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#33. Son, women are easy. They simply want everything. It's not difficult.
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#34. Bringing a shaky hand to my mouth, I sucked in air as if it were going out of style.
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#35. 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.
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#36. My attitude. It's what I fed off of as well. It's what made people like me.
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#37. When I thought about it, there actually weren't a lot of things or people in the world that I loved. Why had I left them here?
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#38. Being a bitch could be a survival technique. They get respect. There was no honor in people thinking you were a slut.
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#39. I'm never letting you go again, Tate," I whispered, almost desperate. "I'm your friend forever, and if that's all I get, then that's what I'm taking, because only when you're here" - I took her hand and placed it on my heart - "do I feel like my life is worth a damn.
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#41. It's the only album I have where I can listen to every song with equal enjoyment.
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#42. You have every right not to trust me, Tate. I know that. My fucking heart is ripping open right now. I can't stand the way you're looking at me. I could never hurt you again. Please ... let's try to fix this together.
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#43. I felt like no one wanted me and that life moved on without me. No one cared. Jared's
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#44. Redefine normal. None of us know the full measure of our power until we start pushing our boundaries and pressing our luck, and the more we do, the less we care what others think. The freedom feels too good.
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#46. Well, it's like you're saving your energy for something. Holding back. But it doesn't make any sense. Life is one-way, and there is no return trip. What are you waiting for?
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#48. She gave me a sad smile and did what good friends do - gave me a second slice of cake.
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#49. I'm your friend forever, and if that's all I get, then that's what I'm taking because only when you are here...do I feel like my life is worth a damn
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#50. A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more than block her view.
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#51. Expressions like "the good ole days" implied that life used to be of a higher quality than it is now, but I think everything looks better in retrospect.
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#53. 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." He
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#54. And from Michael - as well as Damon, Will, and Kai - I learned to breathe fire. I learned to walk as if the path were carved for me and me alone, and to treat the world as if it should know I was coming.
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#55. No one else can make you happy, and putting that expectation on the other will doom both of you. You don't look at someone and say, "You can make my life better." You look at someone and say, " I can make your life better." Be a blessing, not a burden.
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#56. I exist as I am, that is enough" Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
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#57. Guys didn't like their cars messed with. And I didn't like being messed with, so I guessed we were even.
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#58. There were dark deeds and bad seeds, but who cared if the house was falling apart as long as it was pretty, right?
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#59. You loved me. We were besties. I lend you my eye shadow. But someday all you'll be is someone I used to know. - Punk
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#61. This isn't high school," I said, eyeing him playfully. "You're way out of your depth.
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#62. What if her heart had hardened so much that she closed herself off in order to survive?
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#63. 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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#64. Fight. Fight through everything. Don't leave the house angry or go to bed mad. Fight until it's settled. The end of fighting is the beginning of giving up.
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#65. Fallon and I were a lot like them. Only I didn't love her, and she didn't love me. I was infatuated with her once - and loved that she let me take my pubescent urges out on her - but we weren't in love.
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#66. Today. Also, use the word motherfucker at some point. You'll feel a lot better. Trust me.
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#67. You were there. Because I couldn't hurt who I wanted to hurt, so I hurt you. That
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#70. There are times when we can blame a situation on others, but we own our reactions to them. There comes a point where we are the ones responsible for our choices and excuses don't carry weight anymore.
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#71. But still . . . there was a charge in the air. It was Mardi Gras in New Orleans, after all.
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#72. I'd always told myself that I deserve good things, that I was worthy, but if I ever believed it. You can't tell yourself anything. Your heart only believes what it feels, and experience is the best teacher.
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#73. You were never clingy or a nuisance, Tate. The day you moved in next door I thought you were the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. I fucking loved you.
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#74. You can do a couple things and succeed, or you can try to do fifteen things and fail at all of them.
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#76. This kid grew up," he threatened in a deep voice, grinding his hard-on between my legs. "And you're gonna fuckin' find out." Oh. My. God.
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#77. Tell me I'm crazy for thinking you're holding back from me as much as I'm hiding you.
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#78. There are too many people that try to change us, and not enough people who want us to be who we really are. Someone once made me see that, and i wanted to give that to you.
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#79. The first thing that came to mind was an angel. Her hair flowing and shiny. Her legs dangling, long and smooth. She looked perfect where she was, like a painting.
And then I remembered that Satan was also an angel.
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#80. I've wanted you for so long," I whispered against her mouth. "All the times I'd see you next door ... it drove me crazy
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#81. Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.
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#83. There were two kinds of stupid. Stupid people that got drunk and humped trees, and stupid people that just humped trees.
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#84. Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she's different, I told myself.
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#85. Letting yourself be vulnerable isn't always a weakness. Sometimes it can be a conscious decision to draw the other person out.
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#86. It will be my ring on your finger and my kids in your belly someday.
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#87. You just think I'm cool, because I have all of the seasons of Vampire Diaries on DVD.
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#88. I'll do anything to be good for you, Tate."
"Anything, baby," I promised.
"Anything?" she laughed out, her eyes bright with happiness and love.
"Have you ever considered a nipple piercing?
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#89. But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he'd come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.
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#90. I want to touch you." His words were against my lips now. "I want to feel what's mine. What's always been mine.
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#91. Her fucking eyes, going from defiant to mischievous to hurt to on fire, and then finally, to broken.
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#92. He released my arms, threading one hand roughly through my hair and the other gripping my ass. Pulling my hips harder against his, he assaulted my mouth like he was starving. He sucked on my bottom lip and then turned his attention to my jaw and neck in hot, frenzied kisses.
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#93. The truth was, you're happier when you're needed and stronger when you're loved.
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#96. I love it when you get mouthy," he whispered down on me. "It makes me want to shut you up.
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#97. The only way we find out what we're capable of is by getting into a little trouble.
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#98. 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!
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#99. We could say we were young and stupid, but that excuse only lasts so long before you realize that you were selfish and just really big assholes." I
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#100. Our scrapes and bruises, tattoos, scars, smiles, and wrinkles told our stories,
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