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1 " It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself? "
― Gregory Maguire , Lost
2 " How miserably hypocritical, you might say, but no sooner am I offered a chance to flee Hell than I yearn to stay. Few families hold their relations as closely as do prisons. Few marriages sustain the high level of passion that exists between criminals and those who seek to bring them to justice. It’s no wonder the Zodiac Killer flirted so relentlessly with the police. Or that Jack the Ripper courted and baited detectives with his - or her - coy letters. We all wish to be pursued. We all long to be desired. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Damned (Damned, #1)
3 " It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee. "
― Maureen Johnson , The Name of the Star (Shades of London, #1)
4 " Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion. "
