Caroline Peckham > Quotes

“In Solaria blue means royal. And to me, blue means you.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“Tears never did anyone any favours, but sometimes they just needed to fall.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Awakening

“Everyone knows, karma’s a bitch. And today her name was Tory Vega.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“Because we don’t get to choose our obsessions. And you’re mine.”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess

“I love you, Blue. I loved you then, I love you now, I’ll love you tomorrow even if I’m no longer on this earth. No time exists where I won’t love you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Fated Throne

“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.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Awakening

“There are countless people who would say I’m not allowed to want you,” Darius breathed. “But you make me want to burn the whole world down so that I can claim you for my own.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“We won’t die,” he said with a shrug. “We’re the Heirs and the Savage Princess. Darcy and the dudebros. Wolfman, Bitey C, Fish Fury, Dragzilla, and the Phoen Dream.”
― Caroline Peckham, Fated Throne

“And I know it doesn’t change anything. That it can’t change anything,” he growled. “But I’m going to prove it to you. I’m going to do everything I can to make it up to you, for the rest of my life if that’s what it takes. I’ll never forgive myself for bringing this curse on us. And I’m never going to stop loving you either.”
― Caroline Peckham, Cursed Fates

“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.”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess

“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, Cursed Fates

“You are meant for the sunlight, Lance Orion. So you’ll stand with me in it or else we’ll stay in the dark together,”
― Caroline Peckham, Heartless Sky

“Because I couldn’t keep away from her, that much was becoming abundantly clear. So I’d just have to keep being her villain.”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess

“Iron is made stronger in the hottest part of the fire, Seth. You didn't break me, you forged me.”
― Caroline Peckham

“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.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“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, Shadow Princess

“I don’t want you on your knees. I want you fighting me and hating me and fucking me like you mean it. You’re Roxanya Vega and you weren’t built to bow to anyone,” he growled passionately. “You want me to hate you?” I asked in surprise. “I want you to feel for me. And I’ll take hate if that’s all you’re offering.”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess

“But until that day, you're mine, Blue.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Awakening

“Because that’s what love is,” I said in a low voice, running my finger over a bare patch of skin on my right forearm thoughtfully. “It’s giving everything without expecting anything in return. It’s sacrificing your heart and happiness for someone else and it’s owning all of your mistakes and trying to make them right. Not because you expect to get something in return for it. But”
― Caroline Peckham, Cursed Fates

“In Solaria blue means royals. And to me, blue means you.”
― Caroline Peckham

“That when we stood before each other and he saw a queen, I saw a king staring back at me.”
― Caroline Peckham, Heartless Sky

“You snuggle with Darcy and Darius all the time. But where’s my snuggles, Lance? Where’s. My. Snuggles?”
― Caroline Peckham, Heartless Sky

“I loved you when your soul shone with all the starlight in the night sky, and I’ll love you now when your soul is the blackest you’ve ever known. I will love you whole and I’ll love you in pieces. It doesn’t matter, light or dark, I am here.”
― Caroline Peckham, Sorrow and Starlight

“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, Fated Throne

“It suits you,” he said. “What does?” I asked. “Smiling.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“I’ll love you ‘til the world is dust,”
― Caroline Peckham, Heartless Sky

“We’re all at least a little fucked up, Tory,” he said roughly. “But the people who love us don’t give a shit about that. Better still–they love us even more for it.”
― Caroline Peckham, Fated Throne

“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, Heartless Sky

“Poor little rich boy, all his pretty things are gone.”
― Caroline Peckham, Ruthless Fae

“She is so…everything. Does she know how everything she is?”
― Caroline Peckham, Shadow Princess