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“Avoiding the bad means you risk avoiding the good, too, and I’d rather be hurt than never not feel this.” (Credence Quotes)
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Because I’m only worth anything if someone wants to love me.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Because life is only happy when it’s shared.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Because you’re still you, no matter where you go,” I retort.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“But he flings the tip of the utensil, the glob of oatmeal on the end launching across the table. I jerk my face to the side, squeezing my eyes shut just in time for it to land across my jaw, the warm goo splattering across my face.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“But then a moan escapes, and I don’t realize it came from me”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Cowards always live to regret, because it’s only too late that they realize the journey is filled with people who are afraid. They didn’t have to walk alone.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Everyone contemplates suicide at some point, even if it’s just for a minute. And one thing is usually the root cause. Loneliness.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“He nibbles, bites, and sucks on my neck, shoulders, and over my shoulder blades as he continues kneading my breast and making my panties so wet as he rubs me through them.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“He pulls in a pair of his old muddy, rain boots from when he was thirteen or so and tosses them across the floor at her.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“He’s winning right now. It’s been a week, and I’m right back where I was when I first came here. Making myself unhappy, because… Because I’m only worth anything if someone wants to love me.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“I might wish this change could’ve happened differently, but some of us don’t learn from the heat. We need the fire.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“I want to be outside. I want to be in a tree. I want to be wet. I want to be on the forest floor as the rain hits the leaves above. I like that sound. I want to be warm. I want to hold something. I want to talk to my dad. I want to be tired, so I can sleep more, and I want to walk. I want to be in love. I want to be safe. I want to be over. I want things in my head to be gone.” (Credence Quotes)
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“I’m not sure I’ve ever played with a woman I wasn’t worried about screwing.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Let’s fight and laugh and make babies someday and go insane, because I’m f*cking in love with you.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Making a mistake takes seconds. Living with them takes a lifetime.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Not like the Boulevard of Broken Dreams that’s my father’s bed when they realize he only wants sex and not a relationship or Skid Row upstairs in Kaleb’s room where women are lucky to leave alive.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“People may live different realities, but the truth is always the same.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Rain is passion. It’s a scream. It’s my hair sticking to my face as I wrap my arms around him. It’s spontaneous, and it’s loud. Snowfall is like a secret. It’s whispers and firelight and searching for his warmth between the sheets at two a.m. when the rest of the house is asleep.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“She needs a lot, and all of them are things you can’t buy. She needs to laugh and get drunk. She needs to be tickled and cuddled and carried and teased. I don’t want to see her cry, but if she does, I want her to know there’s comfort. She has a home.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Sometimes people have to make their own mistakes and feel the pain.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Such a strange feeling, something so big, reminding you that you’re small, but also reminding you that you’re part of a world full of magnificent things. What a great thing to be able to see—and relearn—every day.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“They didn’t leave me a note. Even now, there was nothing they wanted to say to me.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Tiernan would have her books spread out on the table, keeping her nose buried in her school work and pretending she didn’t know when he’d walk into the room to grab a drink from the fridge. And he’d only look at her when her back was turned, so she wouldn’t see.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“Unfortunately, the world moves on, and then it just becomes punishing yourself.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“We all acclimate. We learn, we resolve, we come around—it’s not that anything really gets easier or harder. We just get better at rolling with it.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
“When you’re cared for, you care for others.”
Penelope Douglas
Credence
