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“Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Pain always reminds us that we’re alive. And the fear along with it that we want to stay that way.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Avoiding the bad means you risk avoiding the good, too, and I’d rather be hurt than never not feel this.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Because you’re still you, no matter where you go,” I retort.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Because life is only happy when it’s shared.”
― 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

“Kaleb is a bully and a baby, but so am I, and I want him to talk to me, but sometimes I think he
already does, and I just don’t hear.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“She needs a lot, and all of them are things you can’t buy.”
― 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.”
― 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

“Do I make you feel safe? I like taking care of you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“But Kaleb just waves a hand, shooing me away as he lies down next to her and pulls her into his body. I watch as she immediately falls in, burying her head in his neck as the cries subside and her breathing starts to calm. He yawns, pulling her sheet and blanket up over them like this is normal.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“The peak is massive. But so close. 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

“I want to be everything she sees.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“God, she feels good. She looks like she’d be pudding in your fist. Soft. Too soft. It was so good, though. Those seconds on the car that she let me bury my face in her body. Her skin is like water. I want her smell in my bed. And in my hair. And never far away from me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“He presses his body into mine, taking my waist in one hand and planting his other hand on the wall above my head, and dips his forehead down to mine, looking into my eyes.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“I could never pretend you weren’t you,” he says. “I don’t want to.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“I’ve been hugged a lot. More than I like, actually. It seems to be a thing now. Females—complete strangers—come in for hugs as a greeting. Acquaintances embrace. People you run into on the street dive in all the fucking time like we’re all oh-so-close besties, even though they’re barely touching you. I hate the fake affection. But this is different. He’s holding onto me. Like, if he doesn’t, I might fall.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.”
― Stan Lee

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Sometimes people have to make their own mistakes and feel the pain.”
― 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

“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

“Let’s fight and laugh and make babies someday and go insane, because I’m fucking in love with you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Making a mistake takes seconds. Living with them takes a lifetime.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“He might hate me. But he thinks about me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“Let’s not be friends. Let’s fight and laugh and make babies someday and go insane, because I’m fucking in love with you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence

“You’re a Van der Berg here,” he shouts. “If you give that asshole a piece of ass, I swear to God I’ll make sure you don’t sit for a week.”
― Penelope Douglas, Credence