“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
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“It may have taken nine years, and a whole lot of wrong turns along the way, but their story felt complete at last.
Because, finally, she was his.”
― Julie James, quote from About That Night
“She nodded her head silently to the demons taking tea with her on the sofa.”
― Christopher Scotton, quote from The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
“You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“Taking in their expressions, I just knew it.
Logan had enlisted them.
The bugger.
“Oh dear God.” I let my head fall back as if in supplication to an unmerciful deity. “Why me?”
Joss snorted. “Yeah, doesn’t it suck when gorgeous, funny, loyal Scotsmen fall in love with us?”
― Samantha Young, quote from Moonlight on Nightingale Way
“Maria, lonely prostitute on a street of pain,
You, at least, hail me and speak to me
While a thousand others ignore my face.
You offer me an hour of love,
And your fees are not as costly as most.
You are the madonna of the lonely,
The first-born daughter in a world of pain.
You do not turn fat men aside,
Or trample on the stuttering, shy ones,
You are the meadow where desperate men
Can find a moment's comfort.
Men have paid more to their wives
To know a bit of peace
And could not walk away without the guilt
That masquerades as love.
You do not bind them, lovely Maria, you comfort them
And bid them return.
Your body is more Christian than the Bishop's
Whose gloved hand cannot feel the dropping of my blood.
Your passion is as genuine as most,
Your caring as real!
But you, Maria, sacred whore on the endless pavement of pain,
You, whose virginity each man may make his own
Without paying ought but your fee,
You who know nothing of virgin births and immaculate conceptions,
You who touch man's flesh and caress a stranger,
Who warm his bed to bring his aching skin alive,
You make more sense than stock markets and football games
Where sad men beg for virility.
You offer yourself for a fee--and who offers himself for less?
At times you are cruel and demanding--harsh and insensitive,
At times you are shrewd and deceptive--grasping and hollow.
The wonder is that at times you are gentle and concerned,
Warm and loving.
You deserve more respect than nuns who hide their sex for eternal love;
Your fees are not so high, nor your prejudice so virtuous.
You deserve more laurels than the self-pitying mother of many children,
And your fee is not as costly as most.
Man comes to you when his bed is filled with brass and emptiness,
When liquor has dulled his sense enough
To know his need of you.
He will come in fantasy and despair, Maria,
And leave without apologies.
He will come in loneliness--and perhaps
Leave in loneliness as well.
But you give him more than soldiers who win medals and pensions,
More than priests who offer absolution
And sweet-smelling ritual,
More than friends who anticipate his death
Or challenge his life,
And your fee is not as costly as most.
You admit that your love is for a fee,
Few women can be as honest.
There are monuments to statesmen who gave nothing to anyone
Except their hungry ego,
Monuments to mothers who turned their children
Into starving, anxious bodies,
Monuments to Lady Liberty who makes poor men prisoners.
I would erect a monument for you--
who give more than most--
And for a meager fee.
Among the lonely, you are perhaps the loneliest of all,
You come so close to love
But it eludes you
While proper women march to church and fantasize
In the silence of their rooms,
While lonely women take their husbands' arms
To hold them on life's surface,
While chattering women fill their closets with clothes and
Their lips with lies,
You offer love for a fee--which is not as costly as most--
And remain a lonely prostitute on a street of pain.
You are not immoral, little Maria, only tired and afraid,
But you are not as hollow as the police who pursue you,
The politicians who jail you, the pharisees who scorn you.
You give what you promise--take your paltry fee--and
Wander on the endless, aching pavements of pain.
You know more of universal love than the nations who thrive on war,
More than the churches whose dogmas are private vendettas made sacred,
More than the tall buildings and sprawling factories
Where men wear chains.
You are a lonely prostitute who speaks to me as I pass,
And I smile at you because I am a lonely man.”
― James Kavanaugh, quote from There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves
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