Top 300 Caroline Peckham Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “If you love someone, truly love them, you’ll bear your soul to them and let them be the keeper of your heart no matter how fragile or damaged it might be. And if they love you then they’ll do everything in their power to keep it safe, to nurture and protect it and heal over all the old wounds.”

— Caroline Peckham

2. “You wanna punish me, baby?”

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3. “If you want it than you’ll have to fight for it.”

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4. “That’s the thing about bad people, Titan, they always think they’re in the right.”

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5. “The best of things move on swift and silent wings, look closely dear and you can have it all, but beware my love, for even angels fall...”

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6. “Because you’re in my head all the time. You pulse through my blood with each beat of my heart. I live for every scrap of attention you offer me and suffer through every moment you spend ignoring me,” he said darkly, holding my eye the entire time.”

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7. “She was beauty and strength and bravery and hope and if I spent every day for the rest of forever making her mine then I’d gladly do it.”

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8. “I can see the cracks in the perfection. I can see the poison that’s tainting your essence. And every break, every scar and burn and fissure in your soul only makes it more beautiful. Only makes you more perfect to me. This pain is strength. This agony is beauty.”

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9. “I’d find it easier to carve my eyes out than I would to stop them landing on you.”

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10. “I stole all the bagels from the school supply and stashed them in my room. If she wants breakfast tomorrow, she has to come. Literally.”

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11. “And most of all I was sick of wanting her and hating her all at once.”

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12. “I wasn’t just any old girl. I was a queen. And he was going to learn it.”

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13. “Regret is the enemy of the future.”

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14. “You can burn the house to the ground if you want, beautiful, I’ll happily rebuild it brick by brick when you’re done with me.”

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15. “Poor little rich boy, all his pretty things are gone.”

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16. “When all hope is lost, and the darkest night descends, remember the promises that bind. When the dove bleeds for love, the shadow will meet the warrior. A hound will bay for vengeance where the rift drinks deep. One chance awaits. The king may fall on the day the Hydra bellows in a spiteful palace.”

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17. “That girl might look sweet, but she’s got as much poison as sugar in her.”

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18. “To everyone else you’re like this perfect little doll, but I can see how fractured and torn apart you are inside,” he breathed. “I can see the cracks in the perfection. I can see the poison that’s tainting your essence. And every break, every scar and burn and fissure in your soul only makes it more beautiful. Only makes you more perfect to me. This pain is strength. This agony is beauty.”

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19. “I watch you and hunger for you and ache for you. It torments me like I torment you.”

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20. “The most important thing I’d learned in life? You can’t trust people. And you especially can’t trust boys with wicked smiles and equally wicked intentions.”

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21. “I thrive on pain, baby. I’ve been gutted and flayed and burned, and none of it has compared to the agony I’ve been in over losing you.”

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22. “Tears never did anyone any favours, but sometimes they just needed to fall.”

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23. “It’s not even the way you look that captivates me most, it’s the way you embody all those kinds of beauty. You are snowfall, and light at dawn, you are death and brevity and life and eternity. It bewitches me.”

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24. “It suits you,” he said. “What does?” I asked. “Smiling.”

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25. “He chuckled darkly and the sound made my toes curl and.”

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26. “Heavens save me from the linear minds of men!”

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27. “You’re what I latch onto to bring me back from the shadows.”

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28. “Well I think I’m talking to an oversized iguana with a superiority complex, wrapped in an expensive suit.”

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29. “The stars are always guiding you towards your higher purpose, your higher self. You must have faith in them no matter how much pain they might have caused you up until now. Everything in life is about balance. Without pain, we cannot know pleasure, without sadness, we cannot appreciate joy. These equilibriums are what make the universe move forever forward. Without them, life would be static.”

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30. “I call it loving you with the intensity of the sun and the devotion of the moon because you are my end, baby.”

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31. “I love you, Roxy,” he said in a rough, dark voice which held no room for lies or falsehood, no space for tricks of cruelty. Only the truth. I could feel it just as keenly as I could feel the rush of his magic beneath my skin.”

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32. “I’d always wanted to kill a Lionel. There was something about that name which just screamed evil overlord to me, and I felt it was best to rid the population of them just in case they ever tried to rise up and rule the world like some kind of megalomaniac dragon king.”

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33. “I’ll never bow to you,” I breathed as the cold stone at the foot of the throne bit into my skin. “But if you like me on my knees then there are better things that I can do down here than kiss your feet.”

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34. “The little angel, the warring gang leaders, the thief and the Seer with no past? There’s a joke in there somewhere, but I don’t think I’m grasping the punchline. Or maybe I’m it.”

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35. “Real family were the people who earned their place in your life, not the ones who demanded things of you just because you were tethered to them by blood.”

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36. “This is no joke. You know you can’t date teachers right? Them’s the rules. And I’d appreciate if you didn’t mouth-hump his name in front of me.”

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37. “The stars might have decided that you can never be mine,” Darius said roughly, refusing to move away from me. “But I am yours. No matter what. I don’t care where we end up or who we’re with, I’ll always be yours. And I’m going to fix the damage I did to us even if the stars don’t care. I’m going to prove to you that I could have been worthy of you if I’d just listened to my heart sooner.”

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38. “He clutched me tighter, a growl in his throat. “Then you’d better run fast, sweetheart, because I’ve never lost a race in my life.”

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39. “I’d take death over life without you,” he breathed, his voice rough and broken by fear.”

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40. “Whereas you prefer your coffee with a bucket of sugar added because you’re just so damn sweet?” he asked sarcastically as he watched me. “No. I like my sugar with a dash of coffee added because I’m bitter.”

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41. “I love you, Roxy,” he said in a rough, dark voice which held no room for lies or falsehood, no space for tricks of cruelty.”

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42. “She was the centre of the universe, a goddess who ruled me, and I gladly submitted to that rule. She was fury and light and a taste so sweet I would never forget it.”

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43. “You will soon realise that all plans are futile. The only ones that matter are written in the stars.”

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44. “Her teeth sank into my bottom lip and I wasn’t even sure if the blood I could taste was mine or that of the men we’d just killed, and I didn’t care. Because this kiss was more than just a kiss. It was an oath and a vow and a promise I intended to keep until death came and ripped me from this world kicking and screaming and cursing for the rest of time. I was her creature now. I was a man on his knees in the rain and a monster hiding in the dark and I was hers to command at will.”

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45. “It wasn’t pretty or simple or easy, but it was life. And life just got messy sometimes even when you didn’t mean for it to.”

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46. “Because the stars have taken everything from me. My dream, my free will, my status, my family”, his voice thickened on that last word and pain sliced into my heart for him and all he’d lost. “And when there was almost nothing left to take, they gave me you.”

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47. “I’m gonna prove to you that I’m the better choice. You’ll fall for me so hard you’ll break bones.”

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48. “The hat kid’s name was Diego? I swear it was Darnell,” Darius murmured to Tory.”

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49. “You always smile even when it’s raining.”

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50. “She wasn’t just a girl though. Not to me. She was the one girl I shouldn’t want, the one I couldn’t have, the one I didn’t need. And yet I did. And everything in my life could be damaged so badly by that need that I’d fought it tooth and claw up until this point.”

— Caroline Peckham