Top 300 Caroline Peckham Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It was like that feeling you got while reading a book, glancing at the pages left or the percentage remaining and seeing that you were coming towards the end.”

— Caroline Peckham

152. “I suggest you stop believing in nonsense like that, Princess,” he said, his voice low and rough. “That’s not the way Faery tales go. The endings are always brutal and bloody, and no one walks away from them unscathed. Especially not the main characters.”

— Caroline Peckham

153. “Which means becoming the Nala to my Simba.” “Nala ends up married to Simba. I don’t know what kind of fantasies you’ve been having about me, but I can assure you that outcome is not in your future,” Ryder said. “I knew you loved this movie,” Leon called triumphantly. “Do you need a tissue for when Mufasa dies or do you just let the tears flow free?”

— Caroline Peckham

154. “Denial was my best friend who liked to braid my hair and call me pretty. So yep, Cal could definitely be mine inside my head in an alternate reality I liked to call Calaria.”

— Caroline Peckham

155. “Tory had been my name throughout everything that had shaped me into the person I was today and I had no interest in shedding that persona now or in the future.”

— Caroline Peckham

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

— Caroline Peckham

157. “Two flames, one anchor. You’ll find them when they need you most.”

— Caroline Peckham

158. “She was becoming the queen she was always meant to be. It was just hard to accept that I was never going to be her king.”

— Caroline Peckham

159. “Do you feel that, Elise?” Ryder asked. My lips parted to tell him I had no idea what he meant but before I could, I realised what it was. My pulse was utterly in sync with his. Our two hearts beating to the same pace.”

— Caroline Peckham

160. “You may find it hard to believe, but a true lady won’t just roll over and accept a merciless cad for a suitor just because he manages to water her lawn satisfactorily. I am more than attuned to your personal moral standards and I have no desire to lower myself to them. So call it what you will, foolhardiness, stubbornness or just a pure and true desire to tangle my web with a real gentleman but when it comes down to it, Maxy boy, you have been measured and you have been found wanting.”

— Caroline Peckham

161. “Just waiting for the dead king to move and I’ll be on my way,” Darius said. “Just waiting for my daughter’s poor choice to move aside, and I’ll be on my way,” I gritted out.”

— Caroline Peckham

162. “Spending the evening overseeing the school dance was right up there with killing myself on my list of enjoyable things to do tonight.”

— Caroline Peckham

163. “Goodnight, Lance,” I said breathlessly and he pressed his lips to the soft place behind my ear as his fingers ran over the bite to heal it. “Goodnight, Blue.” “Goodnight, roomies,” Seth whispered.”

— Caroline Peckham

164. “I’ve known since I crowned you in my car. Just don’t ever forget you were my queen first.” He yanked me forward and his mouth met mine, his kiss urgent and furious and I couldn’t help but give in to it for two whole seconds. I felt urged toward him as if by the stars themselves and I remembered what it was like to have him as my will was broken down inch by inch.”

— Caroline Peckham

165. “There’s beauty in pain. Poe knew that,” he said, his voice contemplative as he reached out and brushed a lock of hair behind my ear, leaving a freezing trail against my flesh. “That’s why you’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, Tatum Rivers.”

— Caroline Peckham

166. “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.”

— Caroline Peckham

167. “Lance growled, stepping right up into my personal space and giving me a shove which instantly set the Alpha in me snarling.”

— Caroline Peckham

168. “Put this on,” he growled by my ear, sending a shudder through to my core. “Don’t test me. I’ll put it on you myself if I have to.”

— Caroline Peckham

169. “The distance parting us suddenly felt like too much; the air was racing over my exposed flesh, chilling me to the core. I needed the heat of his hands, the red hot press of his stomach and chest. “Lance,” I breathed and his pupils dilated as I met his gaze.”

— Caroline Peckham

170. “The tension in his features eased and I kissed him gently to wake him. His eyes cracked open and a lopsided smile pulled at his mouth. “I hate the days I don’t get to wake up with you,” he said, his voice rough from sleep. “For a second I thought it was one of those days.”

— Caroline Peckham

171. “I’m a pony with a rocket up my butt. I can outrun anything.”

— Caroline Peckham

172. “I sighed as I headed back towards the Heirs, smiling as Geraldine yelled, “For the magnificent queens of Solaria!” and leapt onto Max’s back, her huge breasts slamming into his head as she flooded them both with a downpour of water.”

— Caroline Peckham

173. “Don’t mind me, I’m just kidnapping my girl on the date of her life.”

— Caroline Peckham

174. “No? Well I guess that’s ten points to Edward Cullen then, isn’t it?” He grimaced at me. “Vampires are a bit grimmer in real life, sweetheart.”

— Caroline Peckham

175. “I am owed an Acrux King. You are mine.”

— Caroline Peckham

176. “What I’d give for the whole world to freeze right now so I could steal a kiss.”

— Caroline Peckham

177. “Tatum Rivers. My temptation, my sweet torture, my endless agony and now maybe she would be my salvation too.”

— Caroline Peckham

178. “Our kiss tasted of tears and desperation. The hurt between us blurred in the middle then faded to nothing like the rain had come to wash it away. Forgiveness was never easy, but the knot inside me finally came loose and I could breathe again.”

— Caroline Peckham

179. “You’ve found the final card. The stars have aligned, my duty is done. When all hope fails, Vega Princesses, find courage in the light.”

— Caroline Peckham

180. “And that I fantasised about him more than I had about any man in all my life. Even Tom Hardy. Even. Tom. Hardy.”

— Caroline Peckham

181. “Dragons were hardwired to find the most priceless treasure they could and make it theirs and she was the most prized possession I could ever hope to own. 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.”

— Caroline Peckham

182. “You can’t just claim to want it, but refuse to allow yourself to be vulnerable to it.”

— Caroline Peckham

183. “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.”

— Caroline Peckham

184. “Because in my heart I know I deserved the answer you gave me,” I replied honestly. “I wasn’t worthy of your love then and I’m still not worthy of it now. But if you gave me forever then I’d spend every second of it trying to be.”

— Caroline Peckham

185. “I had twisted Hail Vega into a creature of violence who everyone in Solaria feared, and I had seen the effectiveness of that. It was time I truly donned his crown and took his title upon myself. For it had always been me behind his greatness anyway. I was the Dragon Lord, Lionel Acrux, and I was the true Savage King.”

— Caroline Peckham

186. “Vegas gonna take you down! Vegas coming for the crown! Watch out Heirs you’d better bow! Vegas gonna take you DOWN!”

— Caroline Peckham

187. “Ignorance is Swiss after all. And the Swiss are notoriously happy.”

— Caroline Peckham

188. “The Nights can’t shine without stars. Always aim to be the brightest one in our sky.”

— Caroline Peckham

189. “I love you, Roxanya Vega,” I said, my voice raw with the truth of that. “No matter what happens with this fate, the war, my father, the throne, all of it pales beside my love for you. And I know I’m not good enough for you but that just makes it all the easier for me to worship you the way you deserve because I won’t ever stop trying to live up to being the man you deserve to have. Not until my dying breath and beyond that too if it’s what you want.”

— Caroline Peckham

190. “Because how could I destroy three monsters without becoming one myself?”

— Caroline Peckham

191. “I’m a commoner before a queen,” he rasped. “Begging to enter her palace and lay all he is at her feet. I am yours whether you accept this ring or not, but if you were to wear it, I would want for nothing more in all the years left to me in this lifetime.”

— Caroline Peckham

192. “Don’t get lost in some imagined future that might never come to pass. Right now is all we have, so let that be all that concerns us.”

— Caroline Peckham

193. “But until that day, you’re mine, Blue.”

— Caroline Peckham

194. “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.”

— Caroline Peckham

195. “And even then, there was the very real possibility that it would haunt you afterwards, the characters lingering in your mind like old friends instead of constructs of your imagination.”

— Caroline Peckham

196. “Roxy Vega might never be mine, but sometimes I found I didn’t mind pining for her as much as I should have.”

— Caroline Peckham

197. “I can see the headlines now, the Vega twins die in joint chocolate-related suicide.”

— Caroline Peckham

198. “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.”

— Caroline Peckham

199. “And that was the way I wanted to leave this life, because when it came down to it, I knew that she was it for me. The only thing I’d ever truly needed and for the briefest span of time she had belonged to me. And that was enough.”

— Caroline Peckham

200. “I moaned like a lady of the night on pay day.”

— Caroline Peckham