Top 400 Kerri Maniscalco Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “This time, when he shouted her name, then held her in his arms, she felt like he was already long gone. Like a star shooting across the night sky, there was nothing left but the memory of how beautifully bright it had once shined.”

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302. “You would miss me terribly and know it. Just as I would miss you in ways I cannot fathom, should we ever part.”

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303. “The stars are out and they’re falling like feathers.”

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304. “I believe it’s important to incorporate both science and instinct, sir.”

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305. “If only life’s problems could be solved with a frilly dress and a pair of slippers. To hell with the world around us, so long as we looked our best.”

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306. “I suppose I’ve grown weary of a select few governing all. Rules are restrictions given by other privileged men. I enjoy making up my own mind. Everyone ought to have the same human right.”

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307. “What else have either of you got for me besides the promise of a splitting headache? – Uncle Wadsworth.”

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308. “If one simply looks to others for their opinions, they lose the ability to think critically for themselves.”

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309. “Foe now I’d tend to my own wounds. Thomas was correct about one thing: I needed to heal myself before I could address anything or anyone else.”

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310. “It seemed an awful thing for a medical tool to be called a breadknife when its purpose was to carve into specimens and not baked goods.”

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311. “He was the only truth left in this world I understand.”

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312. “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.”

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313. “I long to live in a world where equal treatment is not something in need of commending.”

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314. “For the living embodiment of sin, you aren’t very sinful.”

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315. “Life often deals you a hand you didn’t choose.”

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316. “There were only the two of us left standing in a star-filled sky oblivious to anything but the way our bodies fit together like constellations. He was my match in all ways.”

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317. “We were all here to learn. He was the one who had a problem, not I. 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.”

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318. “Whenever I scared him, he turned into some foreign person. One who was both frightening and frightened at once.”

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319. “Men prided themselves on aging. They might lose their hair and expand their bellies and still be deemed a wondrous catch, marrying twenty years their junior. Yet heaven forbid a young lady grow into old age and be proud of the lines on her face; the very lines that told a story of a life well lived. The nerve of us to live happily and without apology.”

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320. “I was a gruesome monster wrapped up in delicate lace.”

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321. “In this moment I understood the draw of the carnival – the magnetic pull to run away from restrictions and simply let go.”

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322. “If I was so apprehensive of marriage, then perhaps being caught wouldn’t be the death of me. It might very well be my rebirth.”

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323. “Do not call me pet.” “Noted, kitten.”

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324. “One thing I can promise,” his voice was deep and sensual in the dark, “is you won’t ever doubt it’s real when I touch you.” Frustrated, embarrassed, and furious to have submitted to desiring him for even one second, I plucked up his shirt and roughly tugged it back on before flopping onto my side. “Someone’s cocky.” “Says the person rubbing up against my c –.”

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325. “You’re both so intelligent in matters involving the mind, but the heart? It’s as if beings from other galaxies are puzzling out fried potatoes.”

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326. “I didn’t expect anyone to be out so early – or so late depending on the circumstances – especially with the threat of another storm approaching. I should have known better than to apply that rule to Audrey Rose. Nothing as pedestrian as the weather would keep her caged when she had a goal to achieve and a young woman’s murder to solve.”

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327. “Perhaps that was the ultimate lesson in letting go – accepting that which was out of our control. I could only do my best and my part; it was up to Thomas to meet me halfway or not at all.”

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328. “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.”

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329. “Wield your assets like a blade, Cousin. No man has invented a corset for our brains. Let them think they rule the world. It’s a queen who sits on that throne. Never forget that. There’s no reason you can’t wear a simple frock to work, then don the finest gown and dance the night away. But only if it pleases you.”

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330. “Let’s play act a murder, Wadsworth.”

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331. “I did not believe there was any line one wouldn’t cross when it came to those one loved. Morals crumpled when faced with heartache. Some fissures within us would forever remain irreparable.”

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332. “Always foster and grow that unquenchable curiosity of yours.”

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333. “You only walked away from that attack because I took the venom into my body through that magical bond.”

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334. “If my enemies wanted to create doubt in me, I’d believe in my own abilities even more. Even if I had to fake it until it felt real.”

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335. “Please assist me with any advice you may possess. I’m much better equipped to extract a heart than encourage one, it seems.”

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336. “Hope is the true magic – its the spark and draw.”

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337. “Her dress was made of watered silk and was of the most gorgeous lavender I’d ever seen. The stitching was superb. A flash of the last cadaver I’d sewn back together crossed my mind. Not to boast, but my stitches had been as good. Perhaps a pinch better.”

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338. “She moved with me, a huntress sighting her prey. The trouble was I wanted to be caught more than I wished to run.”

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339. “If you don’t let go of me this instant,” I said between clenched teeth, “I’ll be forced to empty a terrible fighting tactic my brother taught me upon your manhood.”

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340. “Dining on blood is more civil when one dunks their bread in it as if it were a hearty winter stew.”

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341. “Vices versus morals; the ultimate struggle of this city.”

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342. “Just because I was interested in a man’s job didn’t mean I had to give up being girly. Who defined those roles anyhow?”

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343. “It was that intensity she’d loved imagining, that feeling of being wholly consumed by another person. Just once she wanted someone to want her. Not her art. Not her talent. Her. Sometimes she felt so alone.”

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344. “I’d agreed to meet him here only to go over case details. Now he was doing that infuriating thing where he’d inevitably guess my secret plans, and I’d have to murder him. In front of all these witnesses, no less. What a pity.”

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345. “I knew I was being unforgivably rude, but if Thomas had been hurt, I would have plowed through the entire country if I had to, leaving bones and ash in my wake.”

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346. “A good book was its own brand of magic, one I could safely indulge in without fear of getting caught by those who hunted. I loved escaping from reality, especially during times of trouble. Stories made everything possible.”

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347. “Questions married other questions and had theories for children.”

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348. “Real life certainly wasn’t anything close to a romance novel, but there was still a small part of the old me left that hoped for a happy ending.”

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349. “The proper society girl in me was loath to admit it, but his flirtations kept me afloat in a sea of conflicting feelings. Passion and annoyance were fire, and fire was alive and crackling with power. Fire breathed. Grief was a vat of quicksand; the more one struggled against it, the deeper it pulled one under. I’d much rather be set ablaze than buried alive. Though the mere thought of being in a compromising position with Thomas was enough to make my face warm.”

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350. “To help those he loved, he’d rear apart the world.”

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