“Girls dress for others. Women dress for themselves.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“He gave us three irrefutible pieces of advice about the male species:
1. Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you'll see which one he is.
2. They will try to tell you that it feels better without a condom. You just tell me where they live.
3. And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don't drag each other down. You hold each other up.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“The more you suffered, the more you survived. It shaped people in different ways, and what broke one person could empower another.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“I guessed we've all built ourselves up through sadness, disappointment, and experience. It just happens at different times and in different ways.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“The world has plans for you, baby. Whether you’re ready or not. You can be either a driver or a passenger.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“I wrapped my arms around his waist. "You called me your girl." I nodded, waggling my eyebrows. "And," I continued, "you'd better believe this little wallflower will cut a bitch with that knife of yours if anyone lays a hand on you.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“Bite me, hit me, scream at me. I don't care. I want to feel it. Fucking hurt me, K.C. Let me see you.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“Driving a stick is like sex,” he stated. “Every person you’re with is different. They’re like a code that needs to be broken.” He turned and ran his hands up both sides of the steering wheel, slow and smooth. “What parts like to be touched.” His sensual voice started stirring its way through my body. “Licked. Sucked. Bitten.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“I love it when you get mouthy,” he whispered down on me. “It makes me want to shut you up.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“I’d always told myself that I deserved good things, that I was worthy, but fuck if I ever believed it. You can’t tell yourself anything. Your heart only believes what it feels, and experience is the best teacher.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“The watermelon juice spilling over your lip?” he indicated. “Lick it up or I will.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“We want a house, a car, a fancy f*cking vacation, and prestige. So what do we do? We go to school and we get jobs we hate to pay for the things we want. We deal with people we don't like and waste years of our lives sitting in stark fluorescent-lit rooms and listening to coworkers who bore us so we can pay for a small amount of precious time to enjoy what makes us happy, to achieve a fraction of our lives just feeling as if it was all worth it. We sacrifice to earn.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“Today. Also, use the word motherfucker at some point. You’ll feel a lot better. Trust me.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“Man, I wanted to unravel you, K.C.,” he whispered, and then looked me straight in the eye. “I wanted inside you so badly.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“I closed my burning eyes, and buried my lips in her hair. “I want to terrorize you,” I confessed. “I want to cut you without drawing blood. I want to break you.” I pulled her into me. “And then I want to fuck you.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don’t drag each other down. You hold each other up.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“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....”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“Bringing a shaky hand to my mouth, I sucked in air as if it were going out of style.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“This kid grew up," he threatened in a deep voice, grinding his hard-on between my legs. "And you're gonna fuckin' find out.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“1. Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you’ll see which one he is. 2. They will try to tell you that it feels better without a condom. You just tell me where they live. 3. And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don’t drag each other down. You hold each other”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“bright smells and sounds of the carnival, and”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“If you're the tornado, its everything in its way that gets destroyed.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
“1. Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you’ll see which one he is. 2. They will try to tell you that it feels better without a condom. You just tell me where they live. 3. And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don’t drag each other down. You hold each other up.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Falling Away
Penelope Douglas
Born place: in Dubuque, Iowa, The United States
Born date February 1, 2018
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“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”
― Henry Rollins, quote from The Portable Henry Rollins
“When the gravity of death first touched me, I'd found preoccupation with the minutiae of daily life meaningless. If we ultimately die, and turn to dust in the ground, should it ever truly upset us if the floor hasn't been swept quite recently enough.”
― Shirin Ebadi, quote from Iran Awakening
“It has always been essential to keep women riveted on the details of submission so as to divert women from thinking about the nature of force—especially the sexual force that necessitates sexual submission. The mothers could not ward off the enthusiasm of sexual liberation—its energy, its hope, its bright promise of sexual equality—because they could not or would not tell what they knew about the nature and quality of male sexuality as they had experienced it, as practiced on them in marriage. They knew the simple logic of promiscuity, which the girls did not: that what one man could do, ten men could do ten times over. The girls did not understand that logic because the girls did not know fully what one man could do. And the mothers failed to convince also because the only life they offered was a repeat version of their own: and the girls were close enough to feel the inconsolable sadness and the dead tiredness of those lives, even if they did not know how or why mother had gotten the way she was.”
― Andrea Dworkin, quote from Right Wing Women
“She lied, sir. She has always lied. I don't think she ever spoke a word of truth. But when she spoke, I believed her.”
― Prosper Mérimée, quote from Carmen
“Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.”
― Dandi Daley Mackall, quote from My Boyfriends' Dogs: The Tales of Adam and Eve and Shirley
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