Nightfall Quotes

“Abuse can feel like love.”
“Abuse can feel like love…Why?”
Damon remained so still it didn’t look like he was breathing. He looked at the teacher, unwavering. “Starving people will eat anything.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“You either have my back....”

“You’re at my side....”

“Or you’re in my way...”

“Be Lilith, Never Eve.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“The role of the villain is only determined by who's telling the story”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“But you’re going to be fucking mine someday,” he growled. “Come hell or high water, Emory Scott. You’re my woman, and you’re going to come home to me every day and sit at my table and warm my fucking bed.” He kissed me. “And you’re going to give me a Will Grayson IV. Mark my words.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Abuse can feel like love. Why?' Starving people will eat anything.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Don’t you know that you can have anything you want?”
His eyes searched mine. “I’ll hurt anyone 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

“Live for your love,” the judge said, “love your life, and raise hell.”
― 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

“You're Lilith," he whispered against my skin. "You can't be burned if you're the flame.”
― 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

“I love you,” I said, and I could see people filming us with their phones out of the corner of my eye, but I didn’t care. “I’m wild crazy for you, and I’m sure I’ll kill you at some point, but… God, I love you so much, and I want you to marry me.” More tears streamed down my face as I choked out the words. “Marry me, Will Grayson.” I rushed up and hugged his back, wrapping my arms around him. “Can you marry me? Can I marry you?” I”
― 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

“That was my girl, scarred, tattered soul, and all. She was beautiful.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“You just make me want to be…” “Better?” I rolled my eyes at the cliché statement. But he paused a moment. “More,” he finally said. “No one ever expects more from me.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Alex was like Damon. They loved me. They indulged my dark side. They were too forgiving and too enabling. 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. She made me feel like a man.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“We want what we want.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“I’d loved Emory since the moment I laid eyes on her when I was fourteen.”
― 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

“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

“Real monsters don’t wear masks,” I teased. He shrugged. “Real monsters might not care about being identified, either. No mask, no fun for you.” Aw, my man. Layin’ down the law. God, it turned me on.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“I mean, look at them,” he told me. “Banks, Winter, Em, Rika... Women are only vulnerable, because they’re the last to be taught to fight. I want to put a woman like them into the world.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Some people can’t stop what happens to them,” I said. “They’re just born in the wrong”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“It took everything I had not to look at him, because if I did, he’d know.
He would know that I didn’t always hate him.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Words hung on the tip of my tongue, telling them that they were oversimplifying. That it was easier to judge a girl you knew nothing about than to allow someone the dignity of their process. That it was more convenient to not consider that there were things we didn’t know and things we’d never understand, because we were shallow and entitled and ignorant.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“I warned you I wasn’t a happy person, and there were so many reasons I didn’t want to let you in, but…” She trailed, trying to find her words. “The only time I ever loved my life was when I was with you.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall

“Come here,” he said again. I absently shook my head. “Why?” “Because I’m your man.”
― Penelope Douglas, Nightfall