Kings of Quarantine Quotes

“I wasn’t just any old girl. I was a queen. And he was going to learn it.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“caging a wild animal didn’t make it any less wild. And they were going to find out how hard I could bite soon enough.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Characters could never escape me. Not when I could trap them in my kindle for the rest of time. Suckers.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Because how could I destroy three monsters without becoming one myself?”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Tatum Rivers belonged to me and I had no intention of that ever changing. She’d wormed her way beneath my skin and I’d given my word to protect her as my own.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“We might own her, but she owned us too.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“He fucked me like the sky was gonna fall if he stopped.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Maybe she wants a man who will tie her to his bedposts and fuck her so hard she can’t walk straight the next day,”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“I wanted to destroy those bastards more than I’d ever wanted anything. I wanted to do it for Jess, for Dad, for Monroe. But most of all, I wanted to do it for me.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“I’m not afraid of the dead, I bet my heart is colder than theirs.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“There were three words which described each of them right now: Emotion. Control. Disregard.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Saint sliced everything up on his plate like it had personally insulted his mother and bitch slapped his puppy across the room. Although, if I ever saw that guy with a puppy, I’d be calling animal services faster than a snow cone melting in hell.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“If darkness was thrilling, Saint Memphis was an ocean of it.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“I supposed Monroe kinda counted. He was like a hot Dumbledore you wanted to Slytherin to bed with and suck his Elder wand.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“She might just be my undoing. Or even my salvation.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“I can stick the pineapple up your ass or down your throat, either way them prickles are gonna hurt like a bitch,” he mumbled and I snorted a laugh.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Each of us was capable of real ferocity when it came to protecting what was ours. And Tatum Rivers was ours. We’d written it in blood.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“They were the beasts who hated me, broke and tortured me. And now for reasons I couldn’t fathom…they’d protected me too.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“The lowest card I could play and yet the most powerful one girls had against boys. My period.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“I’d never realised that I was fated to be the king of toilet paper, but if that was my destiny in life then I’d happily sit up on my Charmin throne and lord it over everyone.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“You look like shit, Saint,” she purred. “What happened, did your house elf forget to iron your uniform today?”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“All I knew, was that for now and tomorrow and at least for the rest of this week, Tatum Rivers was my girl. And I didn’t care what Saint or any other fucker had to say about it. If I was a dog, I’d piss on her to mark her out. Or something less gross. I didn’t know how to do that shit, but she made me wanna figure it out.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“The days are long, but the nights are dark.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Rich men stayed rich because they saw the needs of the masses and made sure they were the ones providing them, after all.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“My little Barbie doll had dusted herself off and picked herself up and come back swinging.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“But I guessed that was life. One moment you’re skipping along thinking everything’s just great, and the next thing you know you get sucker punched out of nowhere and everything you thought you could rely on is just gone. And what do you have left? Rage and outrage. Injustice and hopelessness. Nothing and everything. It’s all gone but there’s still so much here too. It’s just that none of it looks the same anymore.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“It occurred to me that Harry Potter had had it easy in comparison to the Lord Coldemort who was currently making my life a misery. At least Harry had had friends. And Dumbledore. Man, I wish I had a Dumbledore. I supposed Monroe kinda counted. He was like a hot Dumbledore you wanted to Slytherin to bed with and suck his Elder wand.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Over the years, I’d turned to the company of books more than people when Dad wasn’t around. Characters could never escape me. Not when I could trap them in my kindle for the rest of time. Suckers.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“Which was ironic considering I was just his captured little bird with clipped wings.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine

“I was Blake’s redemption. And for some strange, messed up reason, I had a feeling he might be mine.”
― Caroline Peckham, Kings of Quarantine