Top 300 Caroline Peckham Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Maybe I wanted to believe she would be just like me if she was brought up here, that her moral compass would have been swung to due south by society, by her parents, by the way of the Fae. Because the idea that that wasn’t true meant one thing only. I was a bad person.”

— Caroline Peckham

152. “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

153. “Yeah and he knows it.” The girl beside her smothered a laugh. “He does know it, because he has Vampire hearing.”

— Caroline Peckham

154. “Wear your pain as armour, Rosalie,” I told her firmly. “There is nothing more frightening in this world than a Fae who can bleed in front of their enemies without flinching.”

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155. “Asses,” I breathed in horror. “They’re a group of asses and they don’t seem to realise it.”

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156. “You can move the sky if you want it enough, but you must banish all doubt from your heart, because it will steal that power from you.”

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157. “I’d catch you if you fell,” I said quietly. “I know,” she said, her fingers curling around the edge of the bricks. “But I won’t fall.” “Even angels fall,” I pointed out, quoting her tattoo. “Lucky I’m no angel then,” she said stiffly.”

— Caroline Peckham

158. “The cut on my palm burned as my grip tightened on the hilt of my sword, the pain centring me in that moment, reminding me that I was still alive, no matter how wretched and pointless that life might be. I was cold. Perpetually cold in a way I knew would never leave me, the fire which had been my love for Darius Acrux no longer heating my veins.”

— Caroline Peckham

159. “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.”

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160. “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.”

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161. “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?”

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162. “Take any given situation, look for the worst possible outcome and I’ll generally find myself in the thick of it. So, if I’m looking at a perfect view coated in dappled sunlight and there’s one creepy patch of shadowy doom, then I can bet with pretty decent accuracy that that’s where I’ll end up.”

— Caroline Peckham

163. “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.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “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.”

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166. “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

167. “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.”

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

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169. “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.”

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170. “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

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

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172. “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.”

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173. “When I’m queen, I’m going to buy you this library,” I decided and he lifted his head, his eyes sparkling with surprise. “Then you can do whatever you like with these books, because they’ll be all yours.”

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174. “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.”

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175. “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

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

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177. “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.”

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

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179. “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.”

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

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

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182. “I know,” he said, his eyes glittering. “But until that day, you’re mine, Blue.”

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

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184. “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.”

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

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186. “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

187. “Well you keep bringing her snacks and then stealing them back.”

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188. “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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189. “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.”

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

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

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

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193. “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

194. “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

195. “I definitely like you better like this,” she teased as I leaned down and let her stroke me, her palm running right up between my eyes. I wondered if she had any concept of how few people had ever gotten this close to me in my Dragon form.”

— Caroline Peckham

196. “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.”

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197. “That’s Peridot for-” “Leo,” Darius finished in a snarl. “My star sign. My gemstone. Mine.”

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

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199. “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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200. “The thing I feared most in life was boredom. I didn’t want to live an easy life, I wanted to blaze through an adventurous one and I’d choose to burn out entirely before I’d let myself whither in emptiness.”

— Caroline Peckham