Queen of Quarantine Quotes

“if saving her means letting the rest of the world burn then pass me the fucking matches and I'll get the gasoline.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Because if I am to hold myself to any standard, my siren, my heart, my fucking everything, then there is no greater standard on earth than you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“So fight,” he growled, his eyes flaring. “Fight with the spirit of the warrior I know lives in you. Fight for the good days. Fight to be stronger than anything the world hurls at you, fight for what you want. Always, Tatum, always. Because no one but you can make your life what you want it to be.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“I am the dark in the dead of the night!" she cried as her pack of heathens closed in beside her, all of their eyes on me, hungering for my end. "Hear me roar!" they bellowed,”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Because I like to remember that even a bullet can’t take me from you, baby. I’m here to stay.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“It was like that feeling you got while reading a book, glancing at the pages left or the percentage remaining and seeing that you were coming towards the end.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“The squid means…”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Goodbye, Dad,” I breathed to the box, pressing my lips to it as the first tears began to fall. I opened the lid, holding it out over the railing as a fierce wind picked up, blowing from behind us. Then I turned the box upside down and released the ashes into the air, an arc of grey dancing away from us through the sky, scattering in the river, the trees, the sky. Dad was free. And finally, so was I.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Ah yes, Lord Tentaculus Squidington. Forgive me, my Lord.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“for the love of all that is holy, I just got dust on my posterior.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Oh for fox sake, Kyan,” Saint spat, keeping to his no swearing rule in front of the kids even now which was just too cute.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“I’m a commoner before a queen,” he rasped. “Begging to enter her palace and lay all he is at her feet. I am yours whether you accept this ring or not, but if you were to wear it, I would want for nothing more in all the years left to me in this lifetime.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“I don't want to live in a world without Kyan Roscoe," she breathed. "I need him darkening my doorway. I need him riling me up and fighting with me. I need him being the worst kind of asshole and laughing while he does it. I just...need him.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Who the fuck are you?" he demanded. I ground my jaw, but gave him his answer because I'd played this game with him enough times to know he wouldn't leave until he got it from me.  "Saint Memphis." "And does Saint-mother-fucking-Memphis fall apart when shit doesn't go to plan?" he asked. I bit my tongue on the response I wanted to give and straightened as I turned to look him in the eye. "No.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“So help everyone in this building when they came for me. The four horsemen were going to collect their queen. And when they arrived, there would be blood to pay.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“And even then, there was the very real possibility that it would haunt you afterwards, the characters lingering in your mind like old friends instead of constructs of your imagination.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“voicemails were left by peasants who didn’t value their time on Earth.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Don’t settle for less. You’re not here to bow to the world, beautiful girl, you’re here to make the world bow to you.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Despite everything we'd been through, the good and the bad, the fucked up and the feral, we really were happy. Our little family against the world. And I wouldn’t change a damn moment of what we had or what we had to come for anything.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“We’d built our own Temple where we worshipped all forms of chaos, and I was going to thrive in it for the rest of forever with my monsters at my side.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“our love, our life, our queen.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“You see that out there?" I asked Caesar as he just kept looking at me. "That's the world you were born to rule. You'll grow and flourish and learn to master it. You'll be a king among the masses. Don't you worry, my boy. You're going to be a damn natural. And if anything ever tries to hurt you, you'll have a pack of monsters at your back. What better life could there be for you than that?”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“This woman right here was so much more than a queen. She was a damn goddess. In fact, I was pretty sure all women were. They could create life and survive the process of bringing a perfect little creation into this world. Meanwhile, here I was with a cock that basically just planted the seed and then hung there waiting for another round of seed planting. Why was it that men thought they ruled the world? It was pretty clear to me that women deserved that accolade”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“This woman right here was so much more than a queen. She was a damn goddess. In fact, I was pretty sure all women were. They could create life and survive the process of bringing a perfect little creation into this world.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“When you have to push a watermelon out of your fucking vagina you can come back to me with your no drugs bullshit, but until then just shut the fuck up and help the woman give me the drugs.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“We’d proved that there was no force in this world which would keep us apart. So now there was just an eternity of life waiting for us to come and claim it. And I couldn’t wait to answer its call.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Fate had woven our destiny and there wasn’t a regret in my heart over how we’d come to be here. The good, the bad, the dark days and the light. They were each threads in a tapestry that was uniquely us. And I’d treasure it always.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“Fuck, baby, you look like a fallen star. The heavens are gonna want you back when they realise you’re missing.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“I want you both. There isn’t an us without you, Blake and Nash.” I looked between them intently. “Will you marry me? Make me the happiest woman in the entire world, make me whole. Because each of you hold a piece of my heart and it can’t be held together without us all as one.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine

“When I’m finished here, I plan to get down on my knees between the legs of my goddess and pray for rain.”
― Caroline Peckham, Queen of Quarantine