“You were the best thing that ever happen to me. I hope that someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it's only you.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“A broken heart is still a beating one.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“The "one that got away" was supposed to stay away, not come back and leave you all over again.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It’s all a matter of how you look at it.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I never had a problem with the way you look at me. My issue is the way it makes me feel when you look at me: things I’m not supposed to feel, things I can’t let myself feel for you. At the same time …nothing felt worse than when you stopped looking at me, Greta.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I want to be the only one to show you everything and to be the one you'll always remember for the rest of your life.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I know I’m not supposed to care. But when it comes to you, what I’m supposed to be feeling has never seemed to matter.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“you can easily switch the letters of a word around to see another hidden meaning, such is life.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“It’s funny how you can spend your entire life wondering if there’s a God until suddenly in a time of crisis, you’re begging Him for help as if you’d never doubted He existed.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“You’re the only girl in the entire world that’s forbidden, and fuck me if that doesn’t make me want you more than anything.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I know that despite my warning, you gave me a piece of your heart anyway last night. And even though I tried to stop it, I gave you a piece of mine. I know you could feel that happening this morning. I want you to keep it with you tucked away. And when you decide to give the rest of yours to another guy someday, please make sure it’s someone who deserves you.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I preferred to be alone than to give myself to someone with whom there was no spark.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“He was hers.
I was his.
It. Was. Fucked. Up.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“Please tell me I’m gonna have to sleep with you to get ahead in my writing career.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“Through death there was life. Through hate there was love. I looked down at my son. “In the end, there was you, and that made it all worth it.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“So much time had gone by, but emotionally, it still felt like yesterday.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I never wanted to see you again, Greta.
It’s so fucking good to see you again, Greta.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“Greta…fate gave you an opportunity. Don’t fuck it up,”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“You were the best thing that ever happened to me. I hope someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it’s only you.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“As hard as it may be to believe, I never meant to hurt you, and I sure as fuck wouldn’t stand by and let someone else hurt you, either.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“Physically, he was my dream and in every other way, my nightmare.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I want to give you a choice depending on what you’re in the mood for.” “Okay.” “We can go find the nearest hotel, and I can make love to you in a bed or...” “Okay. Or?” “Or we can go outside right now and fuck hard in that alley.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“Holy hell… his tip was pierced. What a way to be introduced to my first live one.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“That embrace had made me realize that it was absolutely possible to genuinely like someone that you were insanely jealous of.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I want to be the first one to show you everything and to be the one you’ll always remember for the rest of your life.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“As I write this, what she definitely doesn’t know is that a few years later, I came back for her, but it was too late.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“The “one that got away” was supposed to stay away, not come back and leave you all over again.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“I still dream about your neck. I still think about you every day. For some reason, I just needed you to know that tonight. Please don’t write back.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
“He stared at me long and hard before I felt his hand wrap gently around my neck. That seemed to be his thing. I loved it.”
― Penelope Ward, quote from Stepbrother Dearest
Penelope Ward
Born place: in Boston, The United States
Born date July 10, 1975
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“She never talked about wanting to have children. I believe she wanted solitude and cats.”
― Kate Bolick, quote from Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
“But, as historian Gerda Lerner has pointed out, it is a shared characteristic of women’s history—or the real history of any marginalized group—to be lost and discovered, lost again and re-discovered, re-lost and re-re-discovered, until the margins have transformed the center. As in a tree or a seed, the margins are where the growth is. Who would want to be anywhere else?”
― Gloria Steinem, quote from Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
“He would have been forty-two years old in two months. His forty-first had been his very last birthday, as it turned out.”
― David Baldacci, quote from The Last Mile
“But all these are golden daydreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from Notes from Underground & The Double
“You reach a certain age when reality grabs you by the scruff of the neck and shouts in your face:"Hey, look, this is what life is." And you have to open your eyes and look at it, listen to it, smell it: people who don't like you, things you don't want to do, things that hurt, things that scare you, questions without answers, feelings you don't understand, feelings you don't want but have no control over.
Reality.
When you gradually come to realise that all that stuff in books, films, television, magazines, newspapers, comics - it's all rubbish. It's got nothing to do with anything. It's all made up. It doesn't happen like that. It's not real. It means nothing. Reality is what you see when you look out of the window of a bus: dour faces, sad and temporary lives, millions of cars, metal, bricks, glass, rain, cruel laughter, ugliness, dirt, bad teeth, crippled pigeons, little kids in pushchairs who've already forgotten how to smile ...”
― Kevin Brooks, quote from Martyn Pig
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