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

1 " Men are keen on blaming women for the rise in sin. It's been something plaguing humanity since the Bible first accused Eve of tempting Adam. As if he had no mind to taste that forbidden fruit before she offered it to him. Everyone seems to forget God told Adam the fruit was forbidden. He created Eve later.”

“Honestly?” I snorted. “I didn’t realize you were so well versed in religion.”

Thomas placed my hand in the crook of his arm, steering us toward my uncle, who’d just exited the station. “I enjoy causing discord when forced to attend parties. You ought to hear the arguments that break out from uttering something so supposedly blasphemous. The one question no one can answer is always, if Adam had been warned, why didn’t he pass the message along to his wife? Seems he was more to blame than she was. Yet Eve is always the villain, the wicked temptress who cursed us all. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

2 " You do say you like a man with a rather large—”

“Stop.” I held my hand up. “I beg of you. My uncle is right there.”

“Brain.” He finished anyway, grinning at my reddening face. “You truly astound me with the direction your filthy mind travels in, Wadsworth. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

3 " Thank you for the shoes, Thomas.” I looked at the stack of boxes, teetering precariously close to the edge of the settee now. He caught my stare and nudged them back to safety. “All of them. It was very sweet. And highly unnecessary.”

“Your happiness is always necessary to me.” He tilted my chin up and kissed the tip of my nose. “We’ll find new ways of navigating the world together, Wadsworth. If you can no longer wear heels, we’ll design flats you adore. If you ever find those no longer work, I’ll have a wheeled chair made and bejeweled to your liking. Anything at all in the universe you need, we will make it so. And if you’d prefer to do it on your own, I will always step aside. I also promise to keep my opinion mostly to myself.”

“Mostly?”

He considered that. “Unless it’s vastly inappropriate. Then I’ll share it with gusto. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

4 " I long to live in a world where equal treatment is not something in need of commending "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

5 " I find myself striving to learn new talents, especially when the result is you looking—”

“Radiant?” I guessed.

“I was going to suggest ‘like you wish to destroy my virtue at once,’ but I suppose yours isn’t a terrible deduction, either. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

6 " Mephistopheles waved her off as she left. “One more woman running off with another man. I’m losing my touch.”

“Have you considered you might be a Thorne in their sides?” Thomas asked. “You certainly can be a pric—”

“Thomas,” I whispered harshly, pinching the inside of his elbow.

“How clever,” Mephistopheles said blandly. “You’ve made my name into a pun. What other comedic brilliance will you think of next? I wish I could say I missed this”—he motioned between himself and Thomas—“but that sort of lying doesn’t pay my bills.”

“Nor do the gemstones on your suits,” Thomas muttered.

“Are you still jealous about my jackets?” Mephistopheles grinned.

“For the love of the queen,” I said, interrupting before they really got into it. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

7 " While my cousin had the voice of a nightingale, Thomas’s singing was atrocious. A cat in heat held a note in a more pleasant manner than he did. At least it proved he wasn’t limitlessly skilled, which pleased me to no end. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

8 " Perhaps it’ll give me an idea for the perfect main course. What do you think of roasted goat?”

“After witnessing its beheading or before?” she asked, looking like she was moments away from vomiting. “You do know that’s what cookbooks are for, correct? Inspiration without the labor. Or carnage. I swear you miss being surrounded by death. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

9 " We needn't complete each other, we complemented each other. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

10 " I despise being the one having an emotional dilemma. It’s much more enjoyable being the one consoling you. You haven’t even offered to let me sit on your lap. You’re terrible at this. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

11 " Thomas Cresswell couldn't die. If he did...a darkness so complete as to truly be terrifying welled up inside me. I did not know who I'd become, should I lose him. But Satan would tremble at my approach. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

12 " Beyond life, beyond death, my love for thee is eternal. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

13 " My love for you will be a constant in a sea of unknown variables. We may fight or be cross with each other, but our love will never fade or wilt. Trust in that. Trust in us. Forget the future. Forget worry. The only thing that terrifies me is the possibility of living with regret. I don't ever want to wake and wonder what life could have been like with you in it. I don't ever want to regret holding myself back from loving you as fully and openly as possible. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

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

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

15 " Love is immortal. Death can neither touch nor steal it. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

16 " At some point, we're all someone's hero and another's villain. It's all a matter of perspective. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

17 " You are my heart, my soul, my equal. You see the light in me when I’m lost within darkness. When I’m cold and distant, you’re as warm as autumn sunshine, bathing me in your glow. If I am the night, then you are the stars lighting up my endless dark.” His voice broke, wrenching my heart. “My best friend, the absolute love of my life, now until forevermore, I call you my wife. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

18 " Promise me to wake each day and find joy wherever you can, no matter how small it may be. There will always be hard times and trying times and times for sorrow, but we won't let those days destroy the here and now. Because right now? I'm here... And you're here... And the present is more glorious than the future and all its unknowns. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

19 " 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 (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)

20 " Outside forces will always be out of your control. One thing you can control is how you choose to live. If you wake up fearful of every bad thing that might happen, you miss out on the good. Death will come for us one day. Worrying about tomorrow only accomplishes ruining today. "

― Kerri Maniscalco , Capturing the Devil (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #4)