Quotes by Penelope Douglas

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.

But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.

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.

Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she’s different, I told myself.

The world isn’t always what’s right in front of you, you know? It’s below, it’s above, it’s out there somewhere. Every burn of every light inside every house I see when I look down from the rooftop has a story. Sometimes we just need to change our perspective. And when I look down at everything, I remember that there’s more out there than just what’s going on in my house—the bullshit with my dad, school, my future. I look at all those full houses, and I remember, I’m just one of many. It’s not to say we’re not special or important, but it’s comforting, I guess. You don’t feel so alone.

Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.

My eyes burn with tears, and Im so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone Im not and making mistakes that I didnt have any fun making.

Experience is the best teacher.

It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are.

A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her.

Its odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize theres barley any separation between who we are and who they are.

You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.

I call it the “Fuck up, own up, and get up” policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn’t make them worse.

The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.

I read once that the best thing that can happen to a woman is to get her heart broken. Before that, she has no real sense of herself. No real sense of pain, because only in love does she know what it’s like to find the one thing that gives her breath and then to lose it. After that she knows she can survive. No matter what relationships come and go, she can count on herself to pull through, and although it hurts, the break is necessary.

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.

The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?

Longing, because I miss her. I miss talking to her as me. Lust greater than Ive ever known, because were like this, its the only time she softens and changes and gives me an inch, and its a need thats in my head just as much as my body. It keeps me on my toes.

I have no life there if youre not in it. Youre part of everything good Ive ever done, Ryen. Please.

Hes a reminder of what I want to feel everyday, whether its with him or on my own. Hes taught me that who I am when Im with him feels too good to sacrifice for the approval of everyone else. The way I dress, the guys I talk to, the games I play... its all plastic, and when Im with him, Im gold.