Birthday Girl Quotes

“we don’t hold a woman responsible for a man’s behavior.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Leaning over the table, I close my eyes, take in a breath, and make my usual wish Let tomorrow be better than today.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“I glance at his father, seeing his eyes downcast and looking at Cole’s hand on me. His jaw flexes as he looks back up.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“- Corre. A toda a velocidade .... O tempo passa por ti como uma bala, e o medo dá-te as desculpas que desejas para não fazeres as coisas que sabes que deverias fazer. Não duvides de ti mesma, não penses duas vezes, não deixes que o medo te bloqueie, não sejas preguiçosa e não baseies decisões nas expetativas e na vontade dos outros. Limita-te a seguir em frente, okay?”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“The street itself is an orchestra of white noise, the drops bouncing off the ground or pummeling hoods of cars, the rain is so thick I can barely see the houses across from me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“what you’re feeling right now, is the best thing that can happen to you. Because when all the pieces of your heart start to come back together, and they will, they’ll be stronger. And much tougher for someone to pierce.” She pushes my hair behind my ear in the way she always does. “So you can be sure that when someone finally does, he’ll have worked for it. We don’t need food to survive this life as much as we need our hearts broken at least once. But the best part is, the first break is always the worst. It’ll never feel this bad again.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“But I know the team usually stops for beers at the pub after the game, so I might be late. I have my key if you lock up.” “I’ll be up,” I reply under my breath.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“El miedo te da las excusas que buscas para no hacer aquello que sabes que deberías hacer. No dudes de ti misma, no te cuestiones tanto las cosas, no dejes que el miedo se apodere de ti, olvídate de la pereza y no antepongas la felicidad de los demás a la tuya. Hazlo y punto.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“The day you left,” he blurts out, and I stop. I wait, listening as a look of fear crosses his eyes. “The house was so empty,” he continues. “Like a quiet that was never there before. I couldn’t hear your footsteps upstairs or your hair dryer or anticipate you walking into a room. You were gone. Everything was”—he drops his eyes—“gone.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“When you grow up, your heart dies. —Allison Reynolds, The Breakfast Club”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“I hope tomorrow is better than today.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Cole doesn’t want me here,” I say, dropping my eyes as needles stab my throat. “I don’t think he wants me at all anymore.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“- Mas vou dizer-te - continua, mordiscando-me o queixo. - Desejo sempre a mesma coisa, e todos os dias ela torna-se realidade.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“ Encher a pick-up de Pike com cobertores e almofadas e ir olhar as estrelas.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“- Bem, nem de tudo - corrijo-me. - No entanto, quando às vezes digo algumas palavras, sinto-me estúpida mal me saem da boca. Coisas que faço. Decisões que tomo. Estou sempre a duvidar de mim. Talvez fosse mais feliz se ficasse em silêncio, se mantivesse a boca fechada e evitasse conflitos.
O seu braço aperta-se à minha volta.
- Mais feliz ou mais segura?
Não é a mesma coisa?
Não, entendo o que Pike está a dizer. Um navio no porto é seguro, mas não é para isso que os navios foram construídos.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“- Jesus Cristo - murmuro.
Estou a apaixonar-me pela primeira vez desde há vinte anos.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“ Se sei que também o desejas, como serei capaz de resistir-te?”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Estou arrependido?
Sim. Sim, claro que sim.
Mas também me agradou. A necessidade de levá-la para a minha cama e saborear cada segundo e cada centímetro dela assemelhou-se a desejar o céu na noite passada. Desejava-o.
Não podia esperar.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“- Cole tornou-se mais importante - admite. - Em algum lugar ao longo do caminho, quem eu era e o que queria tornou-se irrelevante.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“I don’t want lots of men watching me. But one man? Like a boyfriend? A man who craves me and who’ll watch me with possessive eyes as I dance for him . . . He’s watching me. I’m in a dark room, a glossy white stage under me, and a soft purple light on me. I move onto all fours, crawling and biting my bottom lip as I lean forward, spreading my thighs, my knees pressing into the floor as I hump the stage. He’s in the back, so far away, but he’s there. He’s the only one there. I’m all for him. He hides in the shadows and leans his shoulder into the wall as he watches me. I roll my hips slowly, taunting and teasing him, and then move back onto my knees, grabbing the headboard to hold on to as I dance and grind.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“I need a date. I’ll just twist, wind, and mold what happened with Jordan last night into some six-minute fluke under the full moon and go back to being . . . her, like . . . elder and shit. Just a responsible adult she relies on for guidance. That’s it. She’s not a woman, she’s not experienced in the world, and I’m not the man who’s going to marry her or give her kids. I have no right to her.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Fuck. I’m gonna go to hell.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“blonde”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Once we got Cole out, I came home to find our apartment completely trashed. Apparently, he was trying to throw me a late birthday party at our place, but our friends—his friends—didn’t wait to start the festivities. By eleven, everyone was drunk, the pizza was gone, but hey, they saved me a piece of cake. I had to go into the bathroom so I wouldn’t cry in front of them when I saw the place.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that I was giving up seven years of my life,” he goes on. “But seven years came and went pretty fast. Securing a good future takes an investment and a commitment, Cole, but it’s worth it.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“I blow out the remaining candles on the bar, closing my eyes and taking a breath each time. I hope tomorrow is better than today. It’s my go-to wish when I don’t have anything else in mind, and every day that passes, I’m trying to get closer to making it come true.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Cole does the yard work. Or me,” I tell her, moving around her toward the lawn mower. “Got it?”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Leaning over the table, I close my eyes, take in a breath, and make my usual wish: Let tomorrow be better than today.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“This isn't over for me. You need your heart to get out of bed, walk, talk, work, and eat, and she took it when she left. I wasn't much before she came along, but what I did have inside me she left with.”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

“Ahora, sin embargo —continúa—, ya no culpabilizamos a las mujeres por el comportamiento de los hombres. —Tiene una mirada penetrante y levanta el labio superior como si fuera a gruñir—. Si quiere mirar, yo no se lo puedo impedir. Si quiere irse a algún lugar privado y darse un poco de amor a sí mismo, eh, yo no me voy ni a enterar. ¡No es asunto mío!”
― Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl (Ficción)