Beyond the Veil Quotes

“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, Beyond the Veil

“In all honesty, I had no further interest in my Acrux heritage. I was happy to leave all claims to it behind in the taking of my wife’s name. I was a Vega now.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Hail sighed heavily. “I preferred the blonde one,” he grunted. Merissa clucked”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“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, Beyond the Veil

“She was my light when I had been so lost in the dark.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Roxanya Vega taught me to defy the stars in all things and I have never once regretted it when I followed her advice.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“But I met a girl who took one look at fate and said fuck you. She found her own path.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“When it comes down to it, you’d burn the entire fucking world to ash for a single smile from her lips, wouldn’t you?”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Me and her, a thousand moments, a million kisses, endless desire, lust, love.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“the girl who had captured my soul so completely that it would only ever be hers.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“This book is dedicated to all those who wait for the living to join them beyond The Veil, watching ever on, and to all those they left behind.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“was”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Unthinkable”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“I can see why she picked you in the end, even if you had proven yourself to be a son of a bitch,” he said, his grip tight, smile as savage as his reputation. “When it comes down to it, you’d burn the entire fucking world to ash for a single smile from her lips, wouldn’t you?”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“The one where I swore to love and protect your daughter with all that I was for all the time I had in that world and the next. The one that I joined her in when she vowed to change our fate at the cost of the stars if that was what it required. She has sworn to defy destiny in the matter of my death, and I have sworn to do all I can to defy it too. So will you help me, or would you rather allow your distaste for me to leave her grieving and alone for the rest of her life?” I demanded.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Yes, in all this darkness, we must not forget to cherish the light,”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“You’d better be watching, sir. Because this fight is for the Vegas,” Lance said, making my heart lurch, those words meant for me. He knew I was here, or at least suspected it and I moved to stand at his back, placing my hand on his shoulder to lend him what power I could.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Death is a doorway in which we must stand, yes, waiting for those we love to join us, or to find peace in knowing they live on. Either way, it is not our final destination. It is a place between the here and there. What the there is, I do not know. But the here, I believe, is an opportunity to find harmony. A harmony, perhaps, we did not manage to find in life.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Save my brother,” he said firmly, his own heart clearly torn on where he should be, but we needed Hail’s connection to the palace if we were going to help Xavier. And Roxanya’s keen grief over Darius made him the best choice to help her here. If anyone could, then it would be him. “Those are my daughters in there, son,” Hail growled, gripping his shoulder as he met Darius’s tempestuous gaze. “Don’t fail them.” “I won’t,” Darius swore, gripping Hail’s shoulder in return, a powerful energy rippling between them which set the hairs standing along the back of my neck.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“She’s using another piece of my treasure,” I grumbled, trying to push off the irritation I felt over her stealing from my hoard in favour of the thought of how it would help her, but it was fucking annoying. “I mean, surely there’s plenty of other crystals she could have found. It’s not like tigers eye is all that rare and all those rebels are desperate to please her, so I’m sure if she’d just bothered to ask them for one someone would have offered.” “I once stole a medallion straight off of Lionel’s neck and tossed it in the lake at Zodiac Academy,” Hail commented. “Never thought I’d see anyone throw such a bitch fit again in my lifetime, but it looks like you might be hoping to claim that title.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Lionel likes to spread the Acrux name like butter dripping across all who come close enough to touch it,” Hail scoffed. “As if applying such a thing means anything at all in the face of true power. My parents only managed to carry one child to full term – me. After their death I was the only Vega left, but there was no part of me which wished to start tracking down old family relations and calling them Vega just to up the numbers. A name with power like ours shouldn’t just be handed out at will. It is earned.” I glanced at him, noting the way he’d called the name ours and wondering if he’d intended to include me in that statement or not. I was a Vega now after all. “Have I earned it then?” I asked, unwilling to let that comment pass. Hail paused, his eyes rolling over me from head to toe, lips pursing. “I suppose we’ll see.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“I can see why she picked you in the end, even if you had proven yourself to be a son of a bitch,” he said, his grip tight, smile as savage as his reputation. “When it comes down to it, you’d burn the entire fucking world to ash for a single smile from her lips, wouldn’t you?” “Is there a problem with that?” I asked, uncertain if it was meant as a compliment or not. Hail snorted. “I think heroes are supposed to put the good of all before their own selfishness. But you are selfish when it comes to her, utterly, unerringly selfish. She’s the one and only thing you won’t ever question, the one thing you put above all else. If the world had to end to see her safe, you’d light the fuse that blew it from existence.” “Damn right I would,” I agreed, no element of doubt in my tone. “Besides, a hero is never going to be what it takes to bring my father down. He moulded me into a villain and so that’s what I am. For her. For him. Damnation isn’t good enough for that piece of shit. And heroics aren’t good enough for her. So hand me the fuse, oh Savage King, because I’m ready to burn it all.” Hail grinned at me, no falseness to it, his grip on my shoulder turning to a push as he moved me towards the door, and I let him guide me along with him. “Let’s go get your queen a soul to destroy then, shall we?”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“If you’d stop storming off like a petulant child it would make this conversation pass more swiftly,” Hail ground out. I folded my arms, meeting his scowl dead on, not flinching at what I assumed was an attempt to intimidate me with that whole old, dead asshole glare thing he had going on. “Spit it out then,” I urged.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“I will tear the heavens apart for this,” Roxanya Vega snarled, the curse of a true queen lashing across the heavens and scoring them with her conviction. “I will shred your world to pieces and rip your hold on destiny from your fucking fists with blood and fire and vengeance for this,” she screamed at the stars, her power making the ground beneath me tremble, magic unlike any I’d ever felt before burning its way between the realms as she forced the stars to take note. “On my life, I curse you. On his life, I curse you. And for our fate, I’ll end you!” The power which blasted through The Veil pushed me to my knees, and I turned my face up towards the heavens too, a snarl on my lips as I joined her in that curse and made a vow of my own. If she refused our fate, then I would too. I would fight with whatever power remained to me and use whatever I could to see an end to this injustice. If there was any way for us to reunite our souls once more, then I would give all I had to do so. There was only her. My one, my only, my wife.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“May you be brave enough to follow the longings of your heart to far-flung places, adventure into the unknown, take leaps of faith and dare to dream bigger than the moon. Be brave, be hopeful, be you. And give them the show of a lifetime.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“My body was mine now. And nothing about my skin felt tainted by him anymore. Even my mind was lighter, the dark memories of Lionel’s insidious touch lessening with each day I was here. Perhaps The Veil was designed to help you find peace, or maybe I was just able to let go of it all at last. Hamish made it easy for me to just be me. He had never once made a derisive comment about me, belittled me, or made feel anything less than the person I was. It was like coming home after years of being shut out in the cold.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Mistakes are found along paths with dead ends. The good thing about having feet is that we can always use them to turn back.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Every one of you standing before me and every Fae who fell on that battlefield fighting by our sides knows the answer to that question. Because we don’t need glory. We only need to know that we are fighting for what is right. We are fighting for freedom from oppression and the end of a tyrant. We are standing up and saying no more.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“I can see why she picked you in the end, even if you had proven yourself to be a son of a bitch,” he said, his grip tight, smile as savage as his reputation. “When it comes down to it, you’d burn the entire fucking world to ash for a single smile from her lips, wouldn’t you?” “Is there a problem with that?” I asked, uncertain if it was meant as a compliment or not. Hail snorted. “I think heroes are supposed to put the good of all before their own selfishness. But you are selfish when it comes to her, utterly, unerringly selfish. She’s the one and only thing you won’t ever question, the one thing you put above all else. If the world had to end to see her safe, you’d light the fuse that blew it from existence.” “Damn right I would,” I agreed, no element of doubt in my tone.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil

“Sweet marjoram to call on her one true love – for what greater love is there than that of two sisters?”
― Caroline Peckham, Beyond the Veil