Beautiful Carnage Quotes

“Rocco Romero. My enemy, my nightmare.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“Because you’ve been mine since we first locked eyes. I was just taking back what belonged to me. There was never any plan to kidnap you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“Rocco stepped out, grabbing a couple of towels and tossing me one while my eyes fell to his perfectly sculpted ass. I mean Jesus Christ, did he squat daily or was that shit natural?”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“nothing made me feel better than reminding myself of my own irrelevance. My time on this planet would come and go and the world would keep on spinning, the snow would thaw and fall again.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“This wasn’t just about sex, it was about her. And for the first time since I’d made that bet with my brothers, I felt kinda shitty about it. Because getting Sloan Calabresi to fall in love with me wasn’t the kind of thing I should have been joking about. It was the kind of thing that would only happen if I turned out to be the luckiest son of a bitch in the entire world. And I was beginning to hope I just might be.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“I'm sure you've gathered by now that I'm not a good man, Sloan," I said in a low voice. "There are things I've done, things I've seen and stuff I've live through that fills all the quiet corners of my mind. But if I can see the sky when I'm trying to shut my brain off, then I find it easier to remember that none of it matters. I'm just a tiny blip that takes up space in the time between nothing and nowhere. It doesn't really matter what I do or what I've done because in the end when all is said and done, every one of us will be forgotten by eternity.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“I am yours from my black heart to my tarnished soul,” he growled powerfully. “Take it, own it, destroy it, I don’t care so long as it’s in your possession.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“No. You just found out who you are.” “A killer?” “A fighter. A survivor. A fucking warrior. You already proved it once when you looked me in the eye and pulled that trigger. No man will ever break your will. No monster will ever claim you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“I might keep you in a cage, little bird, but I’ll never clip your wings,”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“There she’d been, all dressed up in white like a picture perfect virgin bride but beneath the veil a demon lurked, just aching for someone to free her from her shackles.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“I don’t want to cage you, principessa.” “Says my captor.” I narrowed my eyes on him as anger flitted through me. “You’re my captor too,” he said in a low tone, taking my hand and placing it against his heart. “We chained ourselves together the day we hesitated to kill each other. I’ve never been with a woman since without feeling like I was betraying you. That’s how deep in my soul you are. We were together from that very moment.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“You’ll feel better if you just admit you like me instead of passive aggressively decapitating carrots,” Rocco said casually, pumping another wave of rage into me.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“I envied him, resented him, hated him. And I wanted him like nothing I’d ever known.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“Mamma hadn’t let me see the bars which surrounded us, she’d sheltered me from the truth; that we were just two birds in a cage, singing at a sunset painted on a wall.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“Go take your crazy pills,” I shot back, battling to erase the smile from my lips. “Crazy is just another word for interesting,” he said lightly. “How boring the world would be if I knew I wasn’t going to put on a tutu tomorrow and take up ballet.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“Rocco Romero was freedom embodied. His wildness had never been tamed by anyone. He owned the world because he didn’t bow to its rules.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“No, bella,” he said, softer than I’d ever heard him say anything. “I believe you can find freedom anywhere, you just have to bleed enough for it to be granted.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“I still had the strangest of companions in my hunt. The only man to come with me on every search; Coco. It was absurd. The little white Pomeranian had walked out of buildings with bloody paws and torn through apartments filled with Romeros like he lived without fear.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“Because if she sleeps in my bed every night, she’ll end up falling in love with me,” I joked. “And that’ll be awkward as fuck when I have to kill her.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“Il sole sorgerà domani!”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“It doesn’t really matter what I do or what I’ve done because in the end when all is said and done, every one of us will be forgotten by eternity.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“He’s my freaking kidnapper. I have to stop this!”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“if I didn’t end up nine inches deep in Sloan Calabresi soon, this frustration was gonna eat me alive.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage

“I can see the sky when I’m trying to shut my brain off, then I find it easier to remember that none of it matters. I’m just a tiny blip that takes up space in the time between nothing and nowhere. It doesn’t really matter what I do or what I’ve done because in the end when all is said and done, every one of us will be forgotten by eternity.”
― Caroline Peckham, Beautiful Carnage