43 Quotes About Jack-the-ripper

It was as if the news itself wanted to reassure me. Even Jack the Ripper himself had reappeared as part of the greeting committee.

For anyone, man or woman to desire me, it is absurd! I am nothing but a gargoyle filled with the blood of others.

It's not dystopia to think history will repeat itself.

Intuition was just the brain processing information more quickly than one's consciousness could comprehend.

Death's business is a messy one.

Dig two graves, Fiona. One for your enemy... And one for yourself.

The figure in the cloak had turned, waving a fist in the air in a gesture of pure spite. ‘Damn you!’ My whispered curse came as I drew my revolver, pausing only to take aim. Two shots rang out, shattering the very air between us. I could not be sure if the heavy bullets had found their mark; the fiend whirling around behind a chimney-stack a moment after I fired. A groan from the blackness below-it was Holmes!. - John Watson, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders

I am a practitioner of the science of deduction, of using the known facts in a case to unveil the unknown.’ - Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Murders

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.