Stalking Jack The Ripper Quotes

“Catch me if I fall, all right?”
A smile curved his lips in a most delightful manner. “I’ve already fallen hard, Wadsworth. Perhaps you should have warned me sooner.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“You are not mine to take.” He brushed his lips against mine. Softly, so softly I might have imagined them there. My eyes fluttered shut. He could persuade me to build a steamship to the moon when he kissed me. We could orbit the stars together. “You are yours to give.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“I will gladly accept any and all books, however. A person can never have too much reading material. Especially on a fall or winter evening. If you’re feeling extra generous, you may include tea. I love a unique blend.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“Diamonds were everything I hoped to be; beautiful, yet containing unimaginable strength.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“What is a man's soul made of that a woman's is not?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“There’s something powerful in that kind of love, something that deserves to be kindled and tended to, even when its embers are flickering dangerously close to darkness.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“I long to live in a world where equal treatment is not something in need of commending”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“You fight. You fight for what you want. You do not wallow or surrender. The lesson in not in lying down and allowing yourself to be stabbed, child. It's in pushing yourself up and battling back." Her eyes flashed. "You fell down. So? Will you stay there, weeping over skinned knees? Or will you brush off your skirts, adjust your hair, and carry on? Do not relinquish your grasp on hope. It's one go the best weapons anyone possesses.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“Always foster and grow that unquenchable curiosity of yours." I smiled. That was a promise I fully intended to keep.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Some ghosts should remain good and buried, Niece.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Their minds were crying out to be set free, but they refused to unbind them.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“My notebook was filled with images of things a lady had no business being fascinated by, yet I couldn't control my curiosity.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“Tonight is fall asleep to the image of gold-flecked eyes and a wicked mouth. And all the wonderful ways I might one day explore those lips in dark, empty rooms. Our passion burning brighter than all the stars in the sky. Saints drag me to hell.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Hunting Prince Dracula

“Lord help the girl he set those eyes on for good. His boyish vulnerability was a weapon, powerful and disarming.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“My gender didn't handicap me.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“I wondered at the darkness swirling within me -- the secret part that couldn't muster up an ounce of disgust. Perhaps I needed to take up a new hobby. I feared I was becoming addicted to blood.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“No matter how far I traveled or how hard I pushed it from may mind, Jack the Ripper stalked me, invading every aspect of my life.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil

“What is your issue with prostitutes anyhow? It's not her fault society is so unjust to women.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper

“He was the only truth left in this world I understand”
― Kerri Maniscalco

“What must it be like, knowing you raised the devil? It probably felt the same as knowing you sat by a monster day in and day out, never noticing the blackness of his soul.”
― Kerri Maniscalco

“I didn’t see any men running about, birthing the world’s population then going on to make supper and tend to the house. Most of them buckled to their knees when the slightest sniffle attacked them.”
― Kerri Maniscalco

“For now we're callin' them Frenchy Number One and Frenchy Number Two.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Capturing the Devil