137 Quotes by Penelope Douglas

The perk about being the quiet girl was not many people really got to know you, which left you the advantage of surprise if you ever decided to switch gears in situations just like this.

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

Why should I have to change my name? Who made that rule anyway?

Well, it’s like you’re saving your energy for something. Holding back,” she says, nestling into me and getting comfortable. “But it doesn’t make any sense. Life is one-way, and there is no return trip. What are you waiting for?

Real monsters don’t wear masks

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’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?

No one does you better than you. You can't be replaced. Not everyone will see that, but only you need to.

I could scream. Get the teacher's attention. Make a scene. But he'd only get the laughs he craved, and I'd get the attention I didn't.