Penelope Ward Quotes

In the end, all we have are memories. I don't have nearly enough memories with you. I want to make some.

Half of the people in the world will tell you to follow your head, half will tell you to follow your heart. My advice, follow the one that isn't confused. The stronger one will eventually convince the other to fall in line.

Shit or get off the pot."
"Shit or get off the pot? I was paying $250 an hour for advice my father gave me in third grade.

I never stopped loving you. There may have been times I tried to hate you, but even then, I never stopped loving you.

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.

I wanted to help you feel better...I wanted to bring you out of your darkness. But in the process, I fucked up and fell in love with you

I never wanted to see you again, Greta.
It's so fucking good to see you again, Greta.

He kept his hand on my throat and lightly squeezed it. It was innocent, but there was a fine line being drawn with every second that passed.

I hadn't held anyone like that in years. But never had it felt like this-like home-to me.

That's the thing about true love. It can rise from the ashes because at its source, it's indestructible. Layers can be stripped away and lost, but if you're lucky enough to find them again and put them back together, the end result is stronger than ever.

You can't change the past by punishing yourself in the present.

You can't have it both ways, Damien. You can't look at me the way you do … You can't keep me close and treat me as if I'm a huge part of your life and expect me not to get attached to you. It's unnatural and unhealthy, and whether it's your intention or not, you're hurting me.

In the midst of my vulnerability, I found my self-worth.

It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all that matters. These are really tough years you're approaching now. Your decisions now as a teenager can change your entire life. Just make sure you talk to me or comeone if you're ever feeling like life is too much to handle. And never let anyone convince you that you're not worthy, only to take advantage of you.

He'll be okay. We'll take care of him. Even when he's having a bad day, we'll do our best to make him feel safe."
"Thank you, Frankie. I knew you would. That's why I'm here."
For him.
And for me.
For you.
I'm here for you.
I want you in my life again.
Even if all you'll give me is your friendship.
Fuck that. That will never be enough for me.
Not with you.
There was so much I wanted to tell her but couldn't.

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.

My daughter was calm as a clam. She had no clue what that text meant for the rest of her life. She had no clue that her father had just abandoned her.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, the biggest hardship can lead to your greatest blessing. It just takes time to see that God works in mysterious ways.

We were laughing about nothing. At one point, we stumbled upon a chapel. There was a sign that read, Fake Weddings Here.

Chance stopped me in the middle of the sidewalk. The vapors of alcohol on his breath infiltrated my nostrils as he spoke close to my face. "Marry me, Princess."

"What?"

"We have an illegitimate goat - a fake child together." He laughed. "It's only proper that we partake in a fake wedding ceremony to make you an honest woman."

"You're insane!"

"Shit, we can text a picture to Harry. How fucking awesome would that be?" His mischievous smile sent tremors of desire through me. "Come on, it'll be fun.

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.

Sometimes the things we hold on to the tightest are the things we most need to set free.

That was the first time I realized that I'd fallen in love with him. I loved Justin, More than a friend, more than anything. I was so mad at myself. My biggest fear was losing him. It hit me that it was going to happen someday. Maybe it was already happening.

I like myself better when I'm with you. I think you bring out the best in me, Kendall - a side I haven't seen for a really long time. Kinda forgot that part of me even existed anymore until you got on my plane.

walked in and sat down in booth number

I see through you. The harder you try to be good, the more you're starving to be bad.

I wish I fucking hated you, Evangeline. I'd give anything. I wish I could rid you from my heart, but you are my fucking heart.

I think sometimes people come into our lives at a certain time for a reason.

You are in control of your destiny - except in the next twenty-four hours. I'm in control of it for now." He winked and flashed a devious smile. "You're stuck with me whether you like it or not.

Okay. It's not hard to find a beautiful woman, right? Definitely not hard to find a smart woman. And there are definitely some women with good hearts. But in my experience, it's extremely rare to find the whole package.

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.

When something is worth fighting for, you don't wait around to figure out logistics. You say yes, you accept the gift you've been given, and you figure out the rest later, because life is too damn short to be unhappy.

the same way that you can easily switch the letters of a word around to see another hidden meaning, such is life. A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It's all a matter of how you look at it. So, while this book was once setting up to be a tragic tale, it turned into a love story, an imperfect but unconventionally epic romance.

Fuck me. This man was insanely hot, not someone I expected to come across out here. This was the middle of nowhere USA, not the Australian outback for Christ's sake.

I lost all those years, only to end up in the same place, wanting you and wishing I hadn't ever let you go.

You're in my heart and I can't get you out. I don't know if I want to. Being with you is the only thing that feels right. It would be one thing if you just didn't have feelings for me, but if you're telling yourself that I am better off without you, then you're just wrong. If the emptiness I'm feeling tonight is any indication, I am definitely not better off.

Thank you for giving me mine

Nothing has ever compared to how I feel about you. It's made me question everything that ever came before it.

In the end, there was you, and that made it all worth it

You asked what I plan to try? Everything. Every goddamn thing, Frankie - until you tell me to stop. Until you look me in the eyes and tell me there's no point in continuing.

I had to stop. I threw my kindle across the room. My eyes were so filled with tears that the words were becoming blurry toward the end.

I didn't mean hang glide. I meant do things that give you an adrenaline rush?"

"I still get one every time I take off. When I'm barreling that plane down the runway at a hundred and eighty miles an hour and I pull back on the yoke to lift the nose and we break from the ground…it's like the first time, every time."

"So you're a thrill seeker."

Carter shrugged. "At times. Life without a little thrill is boring, beautiful.

The bottom line, though, is that I was a dumb, hormonal, fifteen-year-old girl. It was the wrong decision. [...] You never gave me the time of day to tell you how sorry I was once I came to my senses that following year. So, I need to say it now. I am so sorry if my leaving like that hurt you in anyway."
"Hurt me?" [...] "It changed me. I loved you.

Life is made up of little moments that don't seem that important at the time, but in retrospect they're what get you to where you are.

If my body had this kind of response now, what would have happened if he'd actually done more? Spontaneous impregnation?

I never stopped thinking about you. All of these years, they feel like a blur. I look at you sitting in front of me right now, and I'm feeling all of the same things I did when we were together.

I needed to kill him with kindness instead of showing my anger.

I'm sure would like an opportunity to try to fix yours if you'd let them.

Every day in life, people we will likely never encounter a second time, pass us by. For some unknown reason, I just couldn't accept that he was one of them.

I don't ever want you to forget what this feels like, Amber. I know I won't ever forget this."
"That's what I'm afraid of, that I'll never be able to forget," she whispered.

Yeah. When was the last time you took a risk?"
"I'd say two days ago when I got on a plane to Brazil at the recommendation of a crazy person I met in a bar."
"Alright. I'll give you that one. That did take some balls. But when was the last time you had a real adrenaline rush? The kind that pumps through your veins so powerfully that it makes you think you haven't really been alive before then?"
I knew the answer to that. When you got in that cab yesterday. Only I didn't have the balls to say that either.

He'd now officially become his brother's bastard child who impregnated his stepsister.

... longing for someone I couldn't have.

Who the fuck do you think you are, trying to take my date home?" Bentley shouted.
"I am her home, fucknut.

From the day you first walked into my life, you've been saving me.

I bought you a dinner in an elegant restaurant for our first one and took you for a plane ride for our second one. Those were damn good dates, Some woman would kill for that kind of lavishness. seems fiting date three we should be heading to a hotel. " He winked.

He can't take you away from me because our story's not finished. To be continued.

If everything before this had been a controlled burn, then this was the explosion.

I don't remember the exact words, but the ending went something like this: Your wings already existed; now you must learn to fly.

Someday Perky. Someday... When you're ready, you'll realize just how dirty my mouth can be all over you. And you'll love it.

I may be walking out of here, but there's not a piece of my heart that is coming with me.

Why are you so interested in what I'm doing with my mouth?

Thank you for continuing this journey with me, Perky. There is no way I was ready to let you go. I don't know what this is, but it's the best thing I have in my life right now, and I don't want to lose it.

Since Hetty wasn't even here yet, I excused myself to go to the bathroom where I promptly picked my kindle up again. Don't judge.

You're perfect for me, baby. I always knew that, never doubted it.

Fuck history. Fuck love. Fuck fate. Fuck happiness. Fuck mind-blowing sex. Fuck it all.

Remind me why we just said goodbye?
...
Because for the life of me, I can't think of one damn good reason.
...
What would you say if I told you I wasn't ready to let you go just yet?

That was your cue to follow me.

If you don't cut that out, I don't bring the girl back here to see you. No more girl! You hear me? I'm tired. NO MORE GIRL!

But I think for the first time in my life, something has mattered enough for me to take a chance. I'm way more terrified of losing you than I ever could be of trying and failing.

You have no idea how close I've come to losing it with you so many times. No clue … Don't think I can't tell exactly what you're thinking when you look at me. You are so transparent, and it drives me crazy.

if you let something go and it doesn't come back to you, it was never really yours to begin with.

I didn't really belong to their group or any group for that matter.

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.

out of sight, out of mind, right? That motto is just a
temporary fix - until you're forced to come face to face with what you've been running from. That's when
the mental walls you've built to hide behind come crashing down in one hard blow.

I'm sure if I told any of my friends about you, they wouldn't get it. They'd tell me I was crazy. But if this is crazy, I don't want to be normal, because I can't remember a time when I've been happier.

That embrace had made me realize that it was absolutely possible to genuinely like someone that you were insanely jealous of.

Well, my life had been nothing but selfish up until then. Nothing should ever come before family. I learned that the hard way.

He closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against mine. "So yeah, you're right. I'm not attracted to you. It's more like I'm captivated by you.

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.

I have this theory. If you think about almost any given moment in life, there is a Beatles song that can describe it.

You light a fire in me, Evangeline, one I can't put out, one I don't want to. I wish I could show you how I feel.

The "one that got away" was supposed to stay away, not come back and leave you all over again.

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.

You know why it didn't work out with him?" "Why?" "Because God made you for me." Not

Sometimes, love also means putting the needs of those you love ahead of your own.

Come fly with me, beautiful.

Sometimes, you need to step away to realize you can't really walk away from something that's a part of you.

You were always there... until you weren't anymore. Losing you taught me not to count on anyone but myself. It shaped who am I today... and that's not necessarily a good thing.

I wiped my eyes. Big girl panties. Big girl panties. Big girl panties.

I assumed he would judge me, but in reality, no one could ever judge me the way I judged myself.

Love isn't always only about the person who makes you feel the safest or even how much you care about someone. Sometimes, it's about the person who ignites your soul, and that may also be the person you fear the most.

I'm afraid to be with him and afraid to be without him.

Keep Calm and Go Fuck Yourself.

Sometimes, if you're willing to withstand a little pain in life, you might discover a pleasure that you never would have otherwise known existed.

Temptation is natural. That doesn't mean you should act on it." He

Days are all we have, Rory. That's all life is... a bunch of days threaded together. All we can be guaranteed is today. No one knows what's going to happen beyond today. We should never make a decision on an assumed future, but rather on how we feel at this very moment.

The heartbeat is the purest form of honesty.

This is all coming from someplace deeper, like when we make love my soul cries tears of joy because it comes together with its other half.

It's always when you want time to stand still that it flies the fastest.

This was supposed to be a trip about finding my own answers (and maybe finding some great shoes along the way), not about being a notch in the bedpost of Captain Freelove, no matter how fuckably handsome he was.