Dead Man's Isle Quotes

“If the sun rises tomorrow, we’ll watch it together.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“I always knew I'd find you again one day," he said, breathing in deeply like he was trying to inhale my soul. "We were written in blood and bone. The sum of all we ever were and will be.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“think I’m still trying to be a kid in a world full of adults and no one wants to play anymore.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“Life might wanna fuck me over, but that doesn't mean it can't get me off while railing me like I'm a good little whore.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“There was no other purpose for me anymore. I didn’t want this life as much as it didn’t want me. And when I examined it close enough”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“Why does everyone talk about confident people having big balls?” Rogue mused. “Balls are the most vulnerable thing on a man’s body. You know what’s really powerful? A vag. They push freaking babies out of them. And sure, you can kick a girl in the vag, but it won’t cripple her. One kick to a ball though and bam, you’re out of the game, dude. It just doesn’t make sense.” “True,” I agreed.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“Ho-ly shit, this man was going to be the death of me and I would lay there in my casket with a big as fuck smile on my dead face and the words 'she was dicked to death and died happy as sin' scrawled across my headstone.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“You taste like sin, beautiful, which just so happens to be my favourite flavour.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“He sighed and I swear in that sound alone I could feel the ache in him too, the regret and the knowledge that we could never really reclaim what we'd once had. The future we should have owned together had been stolen from us a long time ago and the people we were now had nothing on the kids we'd once been.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“Bad Rogue. Psychos aren’t hot. They’re terrible people. Terrible, terrible, really fucking hot people.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“If the sun rises tomorrow, we’ll watch it together,” I spoke the words we’d always said to each other whenever we were out causing mischief into the night. I had them inked along my collarbone now, but you’d only find them if you looked hard enough.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“I guess you never realise how bright the day is until the rain comes.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“If the sun rises tomorrow, we’ll watch it together,”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“Love is obsession. Love’s the thing you can’t control, that binds you to someone whether they want you or not. It’s a gift to those who feel it towards each other, and the most excruciating curse when it’s unrequited.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“Because the world is bad and dark, but it’s good and light too. Maybe the good redeems it just enough, even if that good isn’t meant for me.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“I just wished I’d been able to see the timer running down back then so I could have made more out of each moment, tasted the sea salt on my lips a little longer, laughed fuller and harder, taken more photos, captured more of the sweetness to help counter the bitterness that had been coming. I knew regrets were pointless, but I had them all the same. I guess you never realise how bright the day is until the rain comes.”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“You can’t stop living life just because you know a storm’s coming,”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“Life might like giving me lemons, but I was a fucking pro at squirting the juice in someone else's eyes and I wasn’t gonna stop squeezing now. ***”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle

“And the fact that she probably despised me again which was a hard, jagged pill to swallow. Like one of those round, uncoated pain killer tablets that always got stuck in your throat – who made that shit anyway? Satan?”
― Caroline Peckham, Dead Man's Isle