Cora Reilly Quotes & Sayings

Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing. — Cora Reilly

Love is something girls hope for when they don't know better, something women long for when they lie awake at night, and something they'll only ever get from their children. Men don't have time for such notions. — Cora Reilly

He held me against his body and his upper arm was close to my face, so I turned and bit him. He was so startled he actually released me and I tried to jab him with the knife, but he gripped my wrist.

"Did you bite me?" he asked as he stared at my teeth marks on his bicep.

"Not hard enough. There isn't even blood," I said. Luca's shoulders twitched once, then again. He was fighting laughter. Not the effect I'd intended when I bit him but I had to admit I loved the sound of his deep chuckle.

"I think you've done enough damage for one day," he said. — Cora Reilly

...most days I couldn't even stand the sight of my room. And yet it was a safe place for me, possibly the only safe place. A place where nobody ever bothered me — Cora Reilly

Your sister is a fucking nuisance," Luca muttered in my ear. — Cora Reilly

She's a fucking rat trying to humiliate a queen...She's nothing — Cora Reilly

Did your father never teach you to hide your fear from monsters? They give chase if you run. — Cora Reilly

I swallowed. Be strong, Valentina. The wish of a dead man is sacred. Don't break your promise. — Cora Reilly

If I'd done that today, you would have lost control. The only reason why you didn't was because I treated you like my husband, not a monster. — Cora Reilly

She wasn't the little girl I'd first met. She was a woman in marriageable age now.. — Cora Reilly

I remember the way Romero had looked at me at our Christmas party. as if he saw me for the first time, really saw me as a woman and not just a stupid child. — Cora Reilly

Stop
trying to do what's right and do what feels good for you. You're fucking overthinking everything again. — Cora Reilly

I've always been good at screwing up and eventually I learned to expect it. That's why I didn't fight for you when you left me. That's one of the things I regret the most. Sometimes you have to lose something to realize that you don't want to live without it. I should have said it a long time ago: I love you. There are many questions in my life right now, but you are the one thing I'm sure about.

Please give me another chance. — Cora Reilly

The path stretching before us was one of darkness, a life of blood and death and danger, a future of always watching my back, of knowing every day could be Luca's last, of fearing that one day I might have to watch him receive a lethal injection. But this was my world and Luca was my man, and I would go this path with him until the bitter end. — Cora Reilly

it was easier to live without
something you've never had, because you didn't know what you were missing, but once you've had
something it was difficult giving it up. — Cora Reilly

Maybe Father thought I was bad girl enough and didn't need a slutty outfit to emphasize that further. — Cora Reilly

Just beacause I'm wearing revealing clothes doesn't mean I'm inviting them to look. — Cora Reilly

How about a little bet?" I had a feeling I wouldn't like what he was going to suggest, but I motioned for him to keep talking. "If I manage to give you an orgasm today, then we put the ankle monitor back on. If you manage to resist my skills, we throw that thing in the trash." "Only one?" "Greedy girl," he said teasingly, his dark eyes sparkling with excitement. "I thought you weren't attracted to me? Are you worried your body won't be able to resist me? — Cora Reilly

Make him be good to you. Make him love you if you can. It's the only way to get through this. — Cora Reilly

Father's lips thinned. "You are right. But as I see it Aria will be living under my roof until the wedding and since honor forbids me to raise my hand against her, I'll have to find another way to make her obey me." He glowered at Gianna and hit her a second time. "For every one of your wrongdoings, Aria, your sister will accept the punishment in your stead. — Cora Reilly

But I'm not as valuable as that piece around your wrist."
"You are worth more than anything I've ever owned or will ever own. — Cora Reilly

The idealistic world-improver was his mask,I'd realized. — Cora Reilly

So I'm not just going to manage a casino, I'll also be a bordello queen. — Cora Reilly

You can tell me. I have a phone and am capable of operating it. — Cora Reilly

nothing but a testament of his ownership of me. A daily reminder of the golden cage I'd be trapped in for the rest of my life. Until death do us part wasn't an empty promise as with so many other couples that entered the holy bond of marriage. There was no way out of this union for me. I was Luca's until the bitter end. The last few words of the oath that men swore when they were inducted into the mafia could just as well have been the closing of my wedding vow: "I enter alive and I will have to get out dead." I should have run when I still had the chance. — Cora Reilly

Love is when you feel safe in someone's arms, when he's the first thing you want to see in the morning, love is surrendering. You risk getting hurt but you don't care. You are willing to give someone the power to break your heart. Love means seeing someone at their worst and still seeing the good in them, love means someone is perfect for you despite their imperfections — Cora Reilly

You weren't worried about sleeping beside Aria when she still despised you so why should I?"

"You can't compare Aria to Gianna. They are like two different species. And I trust Aria absolutely. She caught a fucking bullet for me."

"Must be nice," I muttered. "Gianna would probably applaud my shooter. — Cora Reilly

Then so be it. I'll go where you go no matter how dark the path. — Cora Reilly

And who will protect me from him? — Cora Reilly

God, no wonder Father didn't want us to be around men. Now that I knew how good kissing felt, I never wanted to stop doing it. — Cora Reilly