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“Abuse can feel like love. Why?’ Starving people will eat anything.” (Nightfall Quotes)
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Because he’s the one pure, beautiful thing untainted by ugliness,” he repeated his same words from the shower. “And we love him for it.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Damon Torrance was gifted at manipulating someone’s mind. Putting the right glasses over someone’s eyes to make them see the world how he wanted them to see it.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Don’t you know that you can have anything you want?” His eyes searched mine. “I’ll hurt anyone for you.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Even if it wasn’t true love, it had to feel good to be wanted”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Happy people don’t fear death, because there’s nothing more they want out of life than what they have right now.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“He curled his fingers, gripping me, and…and it took a moment to get a hold of myself.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“He grabbed my elbow and pulled us close again. ‘Don’t you know you can have anything you want?’ he repeated his words from a couple of weeks ago. ‘I’d hurt anyone for you. Who the hell is it?”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“He was untouchable, and he wanted to touch me.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“He would know that I didn’t always hate him. A sliver of my brain was starting to believe there was more to him.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I am not scared,” he repeated. “I am the eye of the storm. The calm in the madness.” I blew out a breath, drawing in another, slower. “The quiet in the chaos. The patience for my moment.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I caught her bottom lip with my teeth, she whimpered, and her mouth sank into mine, every nerve in my body firing as her warmth hit my tongue and her taste filled my head.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I could be a bad boy, and I needed to be disciplined.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I could scream. Get the teacher’s attention. Make a scene. But he’d only get the laughs he craved, and I’d get the attention I didn’t.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I had no clue what I wanted or who I wanted to be. I just wanted my people, and I wanted the girl of my dreams.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I just got her back, and fear was nipping at the corner of my brain, worried that she’d change her mind about marrying me if I couldn’t periodically remind her of how hot I was.” (Nightfall Quotes)
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I just wanted her to smile. It would be one thing if I was the one making her miserable, but I had a feeling I wasn’t.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I looked into Em’s eyes, whispering, “I love you, baby.” “Good,” she told me. “Because I wasn’t actually on the shot like I said I was in the greenhouse”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I loved you last night,” I told him. “And I loved you this morning. I’ll still be here. I’ll still be me tomorrow and every day after.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I reached in and pulled out a black one to match his white one instead, both with a thick red stripe down the left side. “I like this one,” I said. He smiled and pulled his out, closing the back hatch and locking the car.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I take you home, or I take you in my lap right here.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I trusted myself now. I wasn’t leaving, and I wasn’t hiding. Happy people don’t fear death, because there’s nothing more they want out of life than what they have right now.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I’d loved Emory since the moment I laid eyes on her when I was fourteen.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“I’d show him. I was strong, and I wouldn’t beg for anything. I’d get out of here and live and keep my damn chin up. The calm in the madness. The quiet in the chaos. The patience for my moment.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“It’s more hopeful for the underdog to win.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Live for your love,” the judge said, “love your life, and raise hell.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Loving a guarded girl, I had realized, was a pyrrhic victory. The rare moments of happiness came at too great a cost.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“No one was going to tell me how to feel. Not anymore. No one could make me feel anything I didn’t allow. I was in control. And I was ready for an adventure.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Not everyone is born knowing their path from point A to B.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“People hide in the dark. They quench their thirsts in the dark. They build their secrets in the dark. We’re more ourselves here than anywhere else. I get to be me…” he swallowed, staring at me, “when nightfall is coming.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Some people can’t stop what happens to them,” I said. “They’re just born in the wrong”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“Something changed in the air when nightfall came, but… The allure for me was in the glow that softened the shadows. It was more beautiful than the sun.” (Nightfall Quotes)
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“That was my girl, scarred, tattered soul, and all. She was beautiful.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“The air thickened, I almost couldn’t breathe, and I was torn between wanting to run to him and run away from him.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“The last line of the confession read ‘We want what we want.’” I turned my eyes on him as sweat cooled my pores.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“The role of the villain is only determined by who’s telling the story”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“The villain was just a matter of perspective”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“They kept me from being lonely, but Emory taught me that not everything I wanted was going to come easy. That there were things I was going to have to fight for and there was pain in the world that my shallow lifestyle in high school kept me ignorant of.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“We all slipped the rings on the other’s hand, the band wrapping around me and my heart at the same time.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“We want what we want,” he whispered. I dropped my eyes to my lap, fisting my hands.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“What do you think was the only thing that made me keep breathing?” My tone hardened as I clenched my jaw. “In my brain, I reached for you. I never stopped reaching for you.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
“You and me against the world,” he whispered, picking up speed and going harder. “Always,” I said.”
Penelope Douglas
Nightfall
