The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection Quotes

“What of the human mind? That’s the most dangerous weapon. How many wars would be waged, swords drawn, cannons readied and fired, without that one weapon being deployed first?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Men are monsters who use fantasy to ease their minds. They find it easy to blame their actions on good and evil. It’s much harder to face the truth—that you enjoy the pain and fear you inflict, for no other purpose than your own wicked pleasure.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Truth is a blade. Brutal and ice cold. It cuts. Sometimes when spoken carelessly it even scars.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“I thought dreams were good things,” I said, thinking to the start of our conversation. “Ah, yes, but you cannot forget nightmares often begin as dreams.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Hope is an invisible yet mighty force. Don’t dismiss its power.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Love isn’t a game. It’s a choice.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“I do love it when you speak so maliciously Wadsworth, gives my head a bit of a rush” -Thomas Cresswell.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Stalking Jack the Ripper Paperback Collection

“That really won’t be—Mephistopheles?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“He smiled. It was the sort of angelic look that convinced countless women to trust him, never remembering Lucifer had once been an angel, too.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Defeat reached out, begging me to collapse in its waiting arms. Giving up would be so easy.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Then he’d shut his emotions off and entered that land of frost and ice. He hadn’t yet warmed from it.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“the devil stood waiting for me. Silent and watchful as always, as he welcomed me back to his dominion of darkness.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Even though Thomas had once mentioned the world was neither kind nor cruel, I couldn’t help but feel it was unjust to so many.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Dreams are strange curiosities,” he said, eyes still on the balloon. “Sure, everyone possesses the ability to lay their heads down and imagine, but to do so without limitations or doubt? That is something else entirely. Dreams are boundless, shapeless things. Given strength and form from individual imaginations. They’re wishes.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Guilt sank its crooked teeth into me. I knew exactly what it was like, feeling chained by expectations set upon me by someone else. Everyone deserved to live freely and in honor of themselves. A basic right should not be a luxury.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“I know this might all be a terrible mistake—an illusion more elaborate than those in this carnival, but for the first time, I am the master of my fate. I feel as though I’ve been freed from a cage and I can finally breathe again. How can I give up this freedom?”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Haven’t you ever wanted to be someone else? If only for a short while. Or maybe not someone else, maybe you longed to be your true self. To live exactly as you pleased without consequence or judgment.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Pull the right strings or snap the correct cords, and poof! Love strangles intelligence, even in the best of us.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“I was the rose with thorns my mother knew me to be.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“I knew Dracula wasn’t real, but his ghost certainly felt as if it were haunting these woods. The skin on the back of my neck prickled as images of strigoi, creeping through the forest, waiting to strike, emerged.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“He was slowly emerging from that desolate nothingness that follows losing a piece of your soul, but I worried he’d fall into old patterns now that he was alone.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4

“Most people ignore what’s right before their eyes. They believe they see, but oftentimes only view what they want.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4