Top 300 Caroline Peckham Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I was too angry for subtle, too full of rage for calm, I had no patience for clever, nor the time for caution. I was fury given wings, grief given strength and power given life.”

— Caroline Peckham

152. “I won’t flinch at the worst of you because there is no best of me anymore.”

— Caroline Peckham

153. “She’s every good thing I forgot existed in this world.”

— Caroline Peckham

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

— Caroline Peckham

155. “Yeah, I forgot my saddle, but you can ride me bareback, right?”

— Caroline Peckham

156. “There is only him. Endlessly. Always.”

— Caroline Peckham

157. “And if I say that Tory Vega can have a bake sale and employ her sister as a cupcake stand, then I will be the first in line for the grand opening.”

— Caroline Peckham

158. “The past is gone. The are no more paths for you there.”

— Caroline Peckham

159. “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

160. “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

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

— Caroline Peckham

162. “I’m yours, Roxy,” he growled against my lips. “For every single second I have in this world, I’m all yours. And after that I’ll still be yours, wherever I end up after I’m gone, I’ll belong right here with you.”

— Caroline Peckham

163. “I’d rather be sobbing with sorrow, screaming in fear, laughing until I was breathless or riding the very edge of a high than just keeping to the middle path.”

— Caroline Peckham

164. “He kissed me like he wasn’t allowed to kiss me, but if he didn’t he’d die.”

— Caroline Peckham

165. “That night I sat in bed just staring at that bruise, wondering how a physical wound could look so bright and angry but emotional wounds stayed entirely invisible. I wanted my hurt branded on me, to remind me never to trust anyone again.”

— Caroline Peckham

166. “So anyway, what do I do? Shall I get him a basket full of lube with a message that says ’stick it in me?”

— Caroline Peckham

167. “You can deny it as much as you like, Roxy, but you and me are going to happen over and over,” he promised, the scent of him wrapping around me and the heat of his flesh blazing so fiercely I could feel it despite the inch of space diving us. “So no matter how much you hate me or despise me or wish you didn’t want me in any way at all, there’s no stopping it. You don’t feel fire like that and just let it burn out.”

— Caroline Peckham

168. “The thump of Darius’s heartbeat rang out in perfect synchronicity with my own because it was my own. One heart. One life. Never to be parted again.”

— Caroline Peckham

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

— Caroline Peckham

170. “I heard Lavinia speaking to me softly, “It’s over, Princess. Give in to the shadows, they’ve already won.”

— Caroline Peckham

171. “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

172. “Then stop looking back, Lance.”

— Caroline Peckham

173. “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

174. “You are better than him, Darius. And you might be a monster, but you’re my monster now and I want you just the way you are.”

— Caroline Peckham

175. “We must feel the bad as deeply as the sea, for then we are able to feel the joy as high as the moon.”

— Caroline Peckham

176. “Hi I’m Tatum Rivers and I’m addicted to cruel boys with black hearts.”

— Caroline Peckham

177. “We’d been humiliated, belittled, abused and beaten. But not broken, we were made of stronger stuff than that.”

— Caroline Peckham

178. “I wasn’t a good man. And I certainly wasn’t a perfect one. But I had been hers.”

— Caroline Peckham

179. “I gotta laugh if I don’t wanna cry, right? Now if you don’t mind, I need to go cuddle up to the man who imprisoned and tortured me.”

— Caroline Peckham

180. “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

181. “J-just you asking Professor Orion how he gets hard,” he spluttered and I breathed a sigh of relief, hurrying to the door and slamming it in his face. “Thank the stars,” I said heavily. “Oh yes,” Orion said sarcastically as he glowered at me. “Thank the stars.”

— Caroline Peckham

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

— Caroline Peckham

183. “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

184. “That when we stood before each other and he saw a queen, I saw a king staring back at me.”

— Caroline Peckham

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

— Caroline Peckham

186. “If darkness was thrilling, Saint Memphis was an ocean of it.”

— Caroline Peckham

187. “Seth tightened his jaw and gave me the most aggressive peace sign I had ever seen in my life.”

— Caroline Peckham

188. “My little Barbie doll had dusted herself off and picked herself up and come back swinging.”

— Caroline Peckham

189. “I felt her loss all over again, just as sharply as the night she’d been taken. Or maybe even more so. Because until now I’d had hope that I could save her if I could only find her. And now I had to fear if I would ever get her back again.”

— Caroline Peckham

190. “But chances weren’t made by the stars alone. I needed to make my own opportunities, so I had to start finding cracks in my prison’s walls.”

— Caroline Peckham

191. “You’re Darius Vega now. And you weren’t built to bow to anyone.”

— Caroline Peckham

192. “As he took hold of my waist and his kiss deepened, three things became clear to me. I knew I’d stick to his plan. I knew I’d do anything it took to save my family. And I knew Erik Belvedere was going to break my heart.”

— Caroline Peckham

193. “Good. Because I’m not a better man,” he said in a low growl, his eyes full of shadows. “I’m the devil and I want you. I want you like I’ve never wanted anything or anyone. And I will fight to make you mine, no matter what it takes. No force in Solaria will rip us apart.”

— Caroline Peckham

194. “There’s beauty in snowfall, in the way the light breaks through the trees at dawn... there’s even beauty in death, in the end of the world, the brevity of everything we will ever experience, the passing into nothing. But I’ve never seen beauty like you.”

— Caroline Peckham

195. “I am savage and strong, and I will make you regret trying to cage me.”

— Caroline Peckham

196. “That he does my bubbakanoosh,” Hamish said, nodding firmly. “You remember what your Momma always said to do with men like that though, don’t you?” “Cut off their fingers then their dingers,” they said in unison and I snorted a laugh, sharing a look with Tory.”

— Caroline Peckham

197. “I was trembling, my body spent, energy sapped, and all I wanted was to sink back down and lay beside Darius once more, give in to the exhaustion that was swamping me, and just let go of everything. But I knew I couldn’t do that. I didn’t have the luxury of being able to let my grief consume me.”

— Caroline Peckham

198. “Rocco Romero. My enemy, my nightmare.”

— 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. “Leave me alone, J!” I shouted. “I just need it in my mouth. Let me put the foot long in my mouth. Stop trying to sandwich block me!”

— Caroline Peckham