Top 400 Kerri Maniscalco Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Antique pages were a scent that should be bottled up and sold to those who adored the aroma.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

252. “Lord help the girl he set those eyes on for good. His boyish vulnerability was a weapon, powerful and disarming.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

253. “My gender didn’t handicap me.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

254. “What good are you, or do you simply excel at being terrible?”

— Kerri Maniscalco

255. “Stories make everything possible.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

256. “Some of us have yet to indulge in our baser desires. Murder, unfortunately, seems to be an aphrodisiac only for House Wrath. Surprising to none, actually.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

257. “He looked like someone who understood, intimately, what it was like to lose everything. To be forced to stand when you wished to fall. To get up on your own and then defy the hand of fate that brought so much pain by smacking you down time and again. To choose to live and flourish despite the bad. And most important, to dare to dream of better days while your current world was a living nightmare.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

258. “This is what they should be teaching us. Not vampire lore regarding a man who died centuries ago. Do you think it’s medically possible to open my cranium and stuff the pages inside? Perhaps the ink will leach in and create some sort of compound reaction.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

259. “Also, you’re quite welcome for the flower. Do place it on your nightstand and think of me while dressing for bed.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

260. “You are grieving, Audrey Rose. Grief doesn’t equate breaking. You are rebuilding after something... destructive. You’re coming back stronger.” He swallowed hard. “Is that what you believe? That you’re irreparable?”

— Kerri Maniscalco

261. “Perhaps we’ve finally found your Achilles’ heel, your majesty.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

262. “Telling Wadsworth how much I loved her wasn’t selfish at all. Quite the opposite.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

263. “Determination – not fear – settled in my chest like a raging lion. I had been stalked and hunted and had escaped harm thus far.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

264. “If the world as I knew it was ending, I deserved a drink before I made a deal with the devil.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

265. “It was far better to be angry rather than turn into a ghost of my former self from sadness and grief.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

266. “Do not turn your back on a love that could jump the barrier between life and death.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

267. “One fact was slowly taking shape: I was in jeopardy of admiring Mr. Cresswell against my better judgment.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

268. “People were always providing in death what they would not do in life, it seemed.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

269. “Winning is an archaic way or looking at romance. Her heart isn’t like a cheap round of cards. Love isn’t a game. It’s a choice.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

270. “If I end up being devoured by ravenous spiders, at least I’ll be memorable for something other than my good looks.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

271. “Science could not explain the power of love or hope.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

272. “Tell me having a cat’s affection and a good book doesn’t sound like an ideal evening.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

273. “Grief doesn’t equate breaking.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

274. “On a ship filled with devilish debauchery, hope seemed to be the deadliest sin of them all.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

275. “If it’s a confession you’re after, I’m afraid you won’t find it here. I’ve not killed anyone or anything. Except a few mosquitoes. And I don’t feel too apologetic about that, especially after they took off with a hefty amount of blood and left wicked itching.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

276. “What is your issue with prostitutes anyhow? It’s not her fault society is so unjust to women.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

277. “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

278. “Bravery might be the absence of fear in most cases, but it also seemed a little like acting foolishly for a good cause.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

279. “I do agree that love is wonderful, I began slowly, not wanting to offend, but there’s also a certain magic in being perfectly content with one’s own company. I believe greatness lies within. And is ours to harness or unleash at will.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

280. “Do not let your bountiful garden turn to ash.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

281. “Being afraid wouldn’t find justice for the family – this boy seemed to understand that.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

282. “I tried again, but the door refused to open. It was like everything in life; the more one struggled against it, the harder it became.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

283. “Power often corrupts. It is a wise man -or woman- who accepts their role as one part of a whole.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

284. “It was much more interesting to sit back and see how it played out. Some of us even wagered on the outcome. I cannot tell you how much I made off of Greed. But he is now in my debt, and I’m sure you can imagine how little he enjoys that.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

285. “I could almost feel despair trailing a sharp nail across my throat now, begging, tempting... I pretended that the growing fear was muck beneath my shoes and squashed it.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

286. “I wanted to crack his soul open and read him like a book, discovering the deepest secrets and stories of how he came to be.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

287. “The First Witch was rumored to have cursed the devil because her daughter fell in love with him and they refused to give each other up.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

288. “Everyone deserved to live freely and in honor of themselves. A basic right should not be a luxury.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

289. “I knew precisely how much princes of Hell coveted power. Enough to bind themselves to someone they may enjoy between their sheets on occasion, but would never truly love. For eternity. Well suited enough.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

290. “Though Uncle believes science explains most legends.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

291. “I pictured growing old together, sitting in the gardens of a country home, the salty sea air crisp and soothing while a cadaver waited for us in our own personal morgue.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

292. “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

293. “Once something is put in motion, we rarely have control over the outcome, no matter what our initial intentions are.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

294. “Passion and annoyance were fire, and fire was alive and crackling with power.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

295. “One of the hardest things anyone can do is live in the here and now. Not worry about the future, not rehash the past.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

296. “As a witch, I really needed to stop thinking some creatures were mere myths and legends.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

297. “How silly of me to believe in happy endings when I lived and breathed in darkness.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

298. “No matter if something was thought to be very bad. There was nothing to be afraid of other than our own worries.”

— Kerri Maniscalco

299. “She’s a person who deserves to have her story told. What does it matter where she was born?”

— Kerri Maniscalco

300. “Stupid bats from Hell.”

— Kerri Maniscalco