Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

by Kerri Maniscalco

When I was adventuring between the pages of a book, I wasn’t sad over things I was missing outside.

The world needed to be better. And if it wasn’t possible for it to be better, we, its inhabitants, needed to do better.

Now that you’ve compared our romantic tryst with a murderer, I feel precisely like kissing.”

We needn’t complete each other; we complemented each other. He and I were whole on our own, which made us so much stronger when combined than two symbolic halves coming together to create one. Our bond had double the strength. Nothing could tear it apart. And after tomorrow, nothing would.

“Love is immortal. Death can neither touch nor steal it. Especially when it’s true.

The only thing that terrifies me is the possibility of living with regret.

“I long to live in a world where equal treatment is not something in need of commending.”