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“Your mother favors Lupe over Inez and Lottie because she looks white.” “What the hell, Sol? How could you even think that?”
“Thomas smiled at my eye roll, puffing his chest up and standing with one foot proudly resting on a chair as if posing for a portrait. “I don’t blame you, I am rather attractive. The tall, dark hero of your dreams, swooping in to save you with my vast intellect. You should accept my hand at once.”
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
“Fear is a hungry beast. The more you feed it, the more it grows.”
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
“Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he’ll never truly command it. I am your daughter, not your horse, sir.”
I stepped closer, enjoying the way Father leaned away from me as if he were just now discovering that a cat, while precious and cute, also had sharp claws. “I’d rather be a lowly wretch on the streets than live in a house full of cages. Do not lecture me on propriety when it’s a virtue you so grossly lack.”
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
I stepped closer, enjoying the way Father leaned away from me as if he were just now discovering that a cat, while precious and cute, also had sharp claws. “I’d rather be a lowly wretch on the streets than live in a house full of cages. Do not lecture me on propriety when it’s a virtue you so grossly lack.”
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
“You don’t say,” he said. “Personally, I’d rather stay in, reading.”
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
― Stalking Jack the Ripper
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