I like storms. Thunder, torrential rain, puddles, wet shoes. When the clouds roll in, I get filled with this giddy expectation. Everything is more beautiful in the rain.

Few simple rules: respect your elders, take care of your body, finish what you start, and solve your own problems.

—Penelope Douglas in Bully

Sometimes I wore smiles but didn't feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn't wear them.

—Penelope Douglas in Rival

Don't think you're special. Lots of women get him. No one keeps him.

—Penelope Douglas in Corrupt

That's the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don't even know how you could've been any other way.

—Penelope Douglas in Until You

What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen.

—Penelope Douglas in Falling Away

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.

—Michael McClary

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

—Alfred Austin

Don't be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upward.

—Vladimir Nabokov