“Girlfriend isn’t enough to describe you, Tate. That term is disposable. You’re not my girlfriend, my girl, or my woman. You’re. Just. Mine,” I bit out every syllable, so she would fucking understand. “And I’m yours,” I added, a little calmer.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“Now, I could go on about mommy didn’t love me and daddy hit me, but who doesn’t have a story, right?” I asked. “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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“I love you more than myself,” I told her, “more than my own family, for Christ’s sake. I don’t want to take another step in this world without you next to me.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“You’re poisonous, toxic, bad for my health. You’re greedy, sly, way too stealth. You hurt me, use me, mistreat and abuse me. But your apologetic eyes, As you tell your lies, Draw me back in, And I forgive every sin. I take you back, Your love is my crack. I’m clearly a masochist, You’re my personal terrorist. My tormentor, My lover, My bully, My friend.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“It’s the moment when you know that you can have what you want if you’re only brave enough to say so. It’s a split second when everything can change, but you pussy out because you’re too afraid to risk the rejection.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“I want to touch you,” I whispered against her lips. “I want to feel what’s mine. What’s always been mine”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“You were my tempest, my thunder cloud, my tree in the downpour. I loved all of those things, and I loved you. But now…you’re a fucking drought. I thought that all the assholes drove German cars, but it turns out that pricks in Mustangs can still leave scars.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“Oh baby", Madoc groaned to the girl next to him. "Snickers ain't the only thing king sized.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“My heart only beat for her, and I’d rather spend my life hating, loving, fucking, and breathing her than losing her.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“There were two kinds of stupid. Stupid people that got drunk and humped trees, and stupid people that just humped trees.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“Girlfriend isn’t enough to describe you, Tate. That term is disposable. You’re not my girlfriend, my girl, or my woman. You’re. Just. Mine,”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“She stared at me, almost amused. “You’ve already made me cry countless times.” And she raised her middle finger to me. “Do you know what this is?” she asked as she took it and patted the corner of her eye with it. “It’s me, wiping away the last tear you’ll ever get.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“I know I can make this up to you. Don’t hate me.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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?”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“The point is some people think they have a leading role when, really, they're just supporting cast.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“Maybe that's the thing I'd been missing about love. You don't withhold it or partition it out when it's deserved. You can't control it like that.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“Gotta love a woman that can hand you your own ass.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“K.C. reminded me of that blonde chick on The Vampire Diaries that runs around acting like every problem in the entire universe has something to do with her.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“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.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“She’d look at me, and I’d stop dead in my tracks, never wanting to leave that moment. Do you know what that’s like?” I scanned the audience. “Day in and day out, you’re thrilled to be alive and experience a million moments of love and happiness that constantly compete with each other. Every day was better than the last.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“Tate always loved the rain. She came alive in it, and I hadn't been able to enjoy seeing her like this in years. Part of me always wondered what magic she saw in thunderstorms, and part of me didn't need to know. Just watching her was like hearing music in my head.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
“That’s the thing about change.
It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable.
Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way.
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.
There is freedom in the fall.”
― Penelope Douglas, quote from Until You
Penelope Douglas
Born place: in Dubuque, Iowa, The United States
Born date February 1, 2018
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“Probably the most daunting challenge in delivering growth is that if you fail once to deliver it, the odds that you ever will be able to deliver in the future are very low. This is the conclusion of a remarkable study, Stall Points, that the Corporate Strategy Board published in 1998.8 It examined the 172 companies that had spent time on Fortune’s list of the 50 largest companies between 1955 and 1995. Only 5 percent of these companies were able to sustain a real, inflation-adjusted growth rate of more than 6 percent across their entire tenure in this group. The other 95 percent reached a point at which their growth simply stalled, to rates at or below the rate of growth of the gross national product (GNP). Stalling is understandable, given our expectations that all growth markets become saturated and mature. What is scary is that of all these companies whose growth had stalled, only 4 percent were able to successfully reignite their growth even to a rate of 1 percent above GNP growth. Once growth had stalled, in other words, it proved nearly impossible to restart it.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
“Life’s going to do that to you missy. Gonna upset your wagon, not just once but many times. And you got to choose who’s sitting next to you. Someone you can trust…or not.”
― Karen Kondazian, quote from The Whip
“When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It’s just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery”
― Irum Zahra, quote from Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black
“Мы делаем своих чад калеками на всю жизнь, умалчивая об одиночестве в его оттенках, полутонах и подоплеках. А вот когда бахнет по башке (обычно после того, как мы вылетаем из родного гнездышка), мы и понять не можем, что стряслось. Глазеем по сторонам, как ошарашенные. На болезнь валим, шизоидные и биполярные расстройства себе выдумываем, грешим на дурной характер и недостаток хрома в рационе. Годам к тридцати до нас, наконец, доходит, почему юность была безрадостна и почему, пока мы с гордым экстерьером изображаем уверенность бронзовых пилотов героической эскадры, в черепной коробке незаметно для окружающих закипают и плавятся мозги. От одиночества.”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from Eleanor Rigby
“Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.”
― Warren Buffett, quote from Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
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