Top 150 Cora Reilly Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Born in Blood, Sworn in Blood. I enter alive and I leave dead,” I said firmly.”

— Cora Reilly

2. “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.”

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3. “I’m gladly your shadow queen. I don’t need the light.”

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4. “Fourteen years, and I’m still waiting for the day when you don’t make me love you a little more every second I spend with you.”

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5. “A princess and a monster, that’s what they were.”

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6. “You are a queen in my eyes. My shadow queen.”

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8. “What about you, honey, do you like to get on your knees and suck my cock?”

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9. “I lied because I hate that I love you, because I hate that you can hurt me without ever laying a finger on me, because I hate myself for loving you even though you won’t ever love me back.”

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10. “Just because I’m wearing revealing clothes doesn’t mean I’m inviting them to look.”

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11. “A temple needs more than one pillar to stand. There’s more to life than work.”

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12. “But you are my first choice, Aria. I’ll burn down the world if I have to. I’ll kill and maim and blackmail. I’ll do anything for you. 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.”

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13. “My lips brushed his lightly. “How strong are you, Remo Falcone?” “Strong enough to take you and our children home where you all belong, Angel.”

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14. “In the darkest hour you are my light.”

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15. “Then so be it. I’ll go where you go no matter how dark the path.”

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16. “I hope one day you will find someone you want so much it burns you up inside, and then we’ll talk when she doesn’t return your feelings.”

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17. “Voicing your opinion doesn’t provoke me, Kiara... I won’t feel attacked if you stand up to me. I’m aware of my status and power and don’t need your submission or flattery.”

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18. “I’d never known love meant being scared all the time, scared of losing someone you couldn’t live without.”

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19. “Love is what makes us human, what makes life worth living. Love is unconditional.”

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20. “Nobody will take you away from me. I’ll fight a million wars if it means I can keep you.”

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21. “How much more blood does have to be spilled for this madness to end? Isn’t it enough?”

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22. “When I claim your body, I want you writhing beneath me in pleasure and not fear.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “Don’t let anyone stop you from achieving happiness.”

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25. “You are mine, Aria, and I protect what’s mine.”

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26. “Regret over the past is wasted energy. We can’t change the past, no matter how much we want to do it.”

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27. “So I’m not just going to manage a casino, I’ll also be a bordello queen.”

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28. “I’m not an emotional man, and I hate public displays of affection.”

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29. “I’d always considered myself a loyal person, but at the first chance, I’d stabbed myself in the back, ditched my true self for an image I thought I needed to be, and where had it gotten me?”

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30. “You are far too beautiful and innocent to be married to someone like me, but I’m too much of a selfish bastard to ever let you go. You are mine. Forever.”

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31. “Love and logic don’t go together, do they?” “Logic told me it was useful to love my wife so I did eventually.”

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32. “She put her head down on my chest. For some reason, it felt as if it were meant to be like this. As if Aria had always and would always belong right there – close to my cold, cruel heart.”

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33. “You haunt my nights and days, and no matter what I do, I can’t get you out of my head.”

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34. “He possessed me. He owned me. I was the queen. He was the king. Checkmate.”

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35. “Sometimes we have to let go of our family if we want to amount to anything in life.”

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36. “If you expect the worst, you’re prepared for the worst. I won’t be caught off-guard ever again.”

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37. “Those words on your back, I mean them, Luca. I will follow you anywhere. Your darkness doesn’t scare me. I love you, your strength and loyalty, your tenderness and protectiveness. I love your gentle side, but just as much I love your darkness. I’ll love you in your darkest hour, I’ll love you even when you are weak, and if you need me to be your light, I will. I love every piece of you, Luca.”

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38. “You were worth it, you know?” He nuzzled my neck and I smiled to myself. “What exactly?” I whispered. “The pain, the wait, Remo’s wrath. Everything.”

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39. “She was. Serafina was a masterpiece, almost too beautiful. Her golden hair and unblemished skin against the dirty mattress had felt like sacrilege, even to me, and I had committed almost every sin conceivable.”

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40. “Your nights are safe. You are safe now, Kiara. Even in the dark, there’s nothing you have to fear, no one, because I am there and they will have to go through me. And no one ever has won against me. I am the most dangerous thing in the dark, but you don’t have to fear me.”

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41. “Some things weren’t meant to be broken, and therefore couldn’t be mended – ever. I was one of those things.”

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42. “All my life I’d thought becoming Capo would be the biggest triumph of my life. Not the happiest day, because I hadn’t known true happiness. But now, as I met Aria’s loving gaze, I knew that she was my greatest victory. Only she brought happiness into days of blood and violence. Only she could fill my dark world with light. She was my light, my love... my life.”

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43. “Silence descended on us. I turned the music on, my favorite playlist. The pounding bass of “Candy Shop” by 50 Cent filled the car. I drummed my fingers in rhythm to the sound. Gemma frowned. “This song doesn’t make sense. Why does a rapper sing about lollipops and rodeos?”

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44. “I’m so glad you could make it,” Remo said in a British accent, all posh and sophisticated.”

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45. “Before you, there was calm. There was order and logic.”

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46. “You only have this one life, Lily. Make the best of it. I wish I had done it and now it’s too late. I don’t want you to end like me, to look back at a life full of missed opportunities and lost dreams. Don’t let life pass you by. You are braver than me, brave enough to fight for your happiness.”

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47. “Luca, I know you’re worried that things escalate and I die. But if things escalate, and all of you die, my whole heart dies, and then I’d rather die by your side than live on without my family.”

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48. “It was only fitting that I should fall in love with a man who was just as bad, as brutal, as cruel as the men who’d raised me.”

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49. “What is the sin but a manmade phantasm?”

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50. “Make him be good to you. Make him love you if you can. It’s the only way to get through this.”

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