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Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.Penelope Douglas
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But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.Penelope Douglas
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But we were different now. I wanted only his pain, and judging from the girl he’d come home with last night, Madoc was still the same. A user.Penelope Douglas
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Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she’s different, I told myself.Penelope Douglas
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The world isn’t always what’s right in front of you, you know? It’s below, it’s above, it’s out there somewhere. Every burn of every light inside every house I see when I look down from the rooftop has a story. Sometimes we just need to change our perspective. And when I look down at everything, I remember that there’s more out there than just what’s going on in my house–the bullshit with my dad, school, my future. I look at all those full houses, and I remember, I’m just one of many. It’s not to say we’re not special or important, but it’s comforting, I guess. You don’t feel so alone. .Penelope Douglas
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Misha, my best friend who got me into bed and fucked me with a lie.Penelope Douglas
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My eyes burn with tears, and I'm so tired. So tired of holding back everything I feel and want to say. So tired of being someone I'm not and making mistakes that I didn't have any fun making.Penelope Douglas
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Experience is the best teacher.Penelope Douglas
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It’s odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there’s barely any separation between who we are and who they are.Penelope Douglas
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A man who stands in front of a woman does nothing more that block her view. She needs a man standing next to her.Penelope Douglas
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It's odd to see how no one is really human to us until we talk to them and realize there's barley any separation between who we are and who they are.Penelope Douglas
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You have to have something to love. Something to fight for to make living a goal instead of a job.Penelope Douglas
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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
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The closer you got to anything beautiful, the less beautiful it became. Allure was in the mystery, not the appearance.Penelope Douglas
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I read once that the best thing that can happen to a woman is to get her heart broken. Before that, she has no real sense of herself. No real sense of pain, because only in love does she know what it’s like to find the one thing that gives her breath and then to lose it. After that she knows she can survive. No matter what relationships come and go, she can count on herself to pull through, and although it hurts, the break is necessary.Penelope Douglas
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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
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The question is, would you rather keep your secrets or keep her?Penelope Douglas
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Longing, because I miss her. I miss talking to her as me. Lust greater than I've ever known, because we're like this, it's the only time she softens and changes and gives me an inch, and it's a need that's in my head just as much as my body. It keeps me on my toes.Penelope Douglas
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I have no life there if you're not in it. You're part of everything good I've ever done, Ryen. Please.Penelope Douglas
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He's a reminder of what I want to feel everyday, whether it's with him or on my own. He's taught me that who I am when I'm with him feels too good to sacrifice for the approval of everyone else. The way I dress, the guys I talk to, the games I play... it's all plastic, and when I'm with him, I'm gold.Penelope Douglas