The Reckoning Quotes

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

“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

“She wasn't just a girl though. Not to me. She was the one girl I shouldn't want, the one I couldn't have, the one I didnt need. And yet I did.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“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.” “Then we should burn it down,” I agreed.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“I watch you and hunger for you and ache for you. It torments me like I torment you.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“Darcy: Are you freaking crazy??? Lance: Yes. For you ;) Come with me.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“I’d find it easier to carve my eyes out than I would to stop them landing on you.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“Blue means you.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“And most of all I was sick of wanting her and hating her all at once.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“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, The Reckoning

“You smell like her,” I murmured. “Then make me smell like you,”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“Everyone knows, Karmas a bitch. And today her name was Tory Vega”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“Before I answered, Seth broke into song, cracking out the Backstreet Boys classic, I Want It That Way. Caleb picked up the next line on cue and Seth started clicking his fingers to the beat.
They both started dancing, sashaying their way toward us and I stared on in surprise. Seth looked to Caleb and they both belted out the last line of the chorus together with their hands on their hearts.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“I don’t apologise very often. It’s not a very Fae thing to do. Did I not do it right?”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“Blue,” I answered his ongoing question on a breath that rose before me in a cloud of vapour, knowing that it meant far more than that. That I'd just told him I wanted him. And in turn, agreed to this dangerous affair.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“What if I don't want it to stop?”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“What are you, my fucking critic or my friend?” “Both most of the time,” he joked. “Well right now I just want a friend. Stop pointing out my flaws and just agree with me while I rant about the situation.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“I'd pushed for her hatred because a moment of her scorn meant more to me than what it cost. I took her attention whatever way I could get it because all the time it was on me lit me up and made me burn. And I wanted to burn with her more than I think I'd ever wanted anything in my life”
― Susanne Valenti, The Reckoning

“My eyes were closed so I couldn’t see him but I just felt oddly at home. Like this was where I was meant to be.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“I just want someone to make my heart beat faster,” she said in a low voice that had me drawing closer to her as I looked into her dark eyes. “To challenge me and make me laugh and push back against my bullshit. I want to be forced out of my comfort zone and I want to feel excited, exhilarated, afraid. But not just because you’re an asshole. Because I want to feel alive.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“would fucking break me. So don’t you dare give in to them. I’ll follow you into the shadows if I have to and drag you away from them kicking and screaming. Because they can’t have you. They fucking can’t.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“But you make me want to burn the whole world down so that I can claim you for my own.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“I knew this room. I’d burned it down once.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“The wood burns hottest at the heart of the fire. The more hardship you face, the stronger you become.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“This girl is made for me.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“We’d fought the Heirs and won. And that felt incredible.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

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

“She hated me. And I hated her.
Simple.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“Vegas gonna take you down! Vegas coming for the crown! Watch out Heirs you’d better bow! Vegas gonna take you DOWN!”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning

“She wasn’t just a girl though. Not to me. She was the one girl I shouldn’t want, the one I couldn’t have, the one I didn’t need. And yet I did. And everything in my life could be damaged so badly by that need that I’d fought it tooth and claw up until this point.”
― Caroline Peckham, The Reckoning