“For there are no limits to the stars, their numbers infinite. Which is precisely why I measure my love for you by the stars. An amount too boundless to count.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Perhaps it was time for fathers to teach their sons how to behave around young women. They were not born superior, no matter how society falsely conditioned them. We were all equals here.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“You are not mine to take.” He brushed his lips against mine. Softly, so softly I might have imagined them there. My eyes fluttered shut. He could persuade me to build a steamship to the moon when he kissed me. We could orbit the stars together. “You are yours to give.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“The world is vicious.'
Thomas brushed a lock of hair back from my face, his gaze thoughtful. 'The world is neither kind nor is it cruel. It simply exists. We have the ability to view it however we choose.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Catch me if I fall, all right?”
A smile curved his lips in a most delightful manner. “I’ve already fallen hard, Wadsworth. Perhaps you should have warned me sooner.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“I will gladly accept any and all books, however. A person can never have too much reading material. Especially on a fall or winter evening. If you’re feeling extra generous, you may include tea. I love a unique blend.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Monsters could wear the smiles of friends while secreting away the rotten soul of the Devil in the darkest crevices of themselves.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“There’s something powerful in that kind of love, something that deserves to be kindled and tended to, even when its embers are flickering dangerously close to darkness.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Monsters were in the eye of the beholder. And no one wanted to discover their hero was the true villain of the story.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Monsters are only as real as the stories that grant them life. And they only live for as long as we tell those tales.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“I refuse to believe you've misinterpreted my affections. I am wholly in love with you. And it is permanent.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Love strangles intelligence, even in the best of us.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“You're dressed for sneaking about Dracula's castle. Be still my thawing, dark heart. You certainly know how to make a young man feel alive, Wadsworth.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“I wondered how I could appear so whole and serene on the outside when inside I was thrashing with turbulence.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Antique pages were a scent that should be bottled up and sold to those who adored the aroma.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“What if" were the two most tragic words in existence when paired together.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“You would miss me terribly and know it. Just as I would miss you in ways I cannot fathom, should we ever part.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Society at large is staggeringly obtuse. If one simply looks to others for their opinions, they lose the ability to think critically for themselves. Progress would never be made if everyone appeared and thought and loved in the same manner.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“If we weren't about to face another terrible passageway filled with life-threatening danger, I'd take you in my arms this instant.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Humans were the true monsters and villains, more real than any novel or fantasy could invent.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Flesh-and-blood men were the real monsters, and they could be cut down easily enough.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“You've stared Fear in its nasty face and made it tremble. You will make it through this, Wadsworth. We will mange it through this. That is a fact more tangling than any dream or nightmare. I promised I'd never lie to you. I intend to honor my word.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Hearts were beautifully fierce yet fragile things.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“BONE WHITE, BLOOD RED. ALONG THIS PATH YOU'LL SOON BE DEAD.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Mr. Thomas Cresswell might not truly hold the title of prince, but the was perfectly fine. To me, he'd always be the king of my heart.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Passion and annoyance were fire, and fire was alive and crackling with power.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Andrei swung his scalpel as if it were a sword and he the most inept defender the kingdom had ever known.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“You’ve stared Fear in its nasty face and made it tremble. You will make it through this, Wadsworth. We will make it through this. That is a fact more tangible than any dream or nightmare. I promised I’d never lie to you. I intend to honor my word.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“Humans were the true monsters and villains. More real than any novel or fantasy could invent.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, quote from Hunting Prince Dracula
“And then there was the small matter of the snow leopard, whose terrible beauty is the very stuff of human longing. Its uncompromising yellow eyes, wired into the depths of its unfathomable spirit, gaze out from the cover of innumerable editions. It is, I think, the animal I would most like to be eaten by.”
― Peter Matthiessen, quote from The Snow Leopard
“The difference between laughing your head off and shouting your head off is that with one you are happy and with the other you are angry.”
― Siobhan Dowd, quote from The London Eye Mystery
“All the big talk of Democracy and Human Rights seemed as spurious as the glib guarantees with which some manufacturers underwrite their products in the confident hope that they will never be challenged. The Briton at home takes no responsibility for the protestations and promises made in his name by British officials overseas.”
― E.R. Braithwaite, quote from To Sir, With Love
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from Annabel Lee
“Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am.
Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me.”
― Carolyn Mackler, quote from The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
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