Top 150 Cora Reilly Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I just didn’t like humans in general. They were back-stabbing, disloyal creatures. That’s why I preferred the company of my dogs.”

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

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3. “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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4. “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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5. “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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6. “I’m gladly your shadow queen. I don’t need the light.”

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

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8. “My heart pounded in my chest, not just from the sprint, but from worry over my wife. My crying, hurt wife.”

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

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

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12. “You are a Falcone now. My brother’s wife. You fall under my rule. That makes you mine to protect.”

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

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

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

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17. “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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18. “In the darkest hour you are my light.”

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

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20. “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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21. “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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22. “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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23. “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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24. “I’ll try to be the best husband I can possibly be, which probably is still much less than you deserve.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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32. “Someone once told me not to run from monsters because they give chase.”

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33. “One day I’m going to kill every single person who made you feel less. They should pray that your kindness stops me long enough.” Deadly words shouldn’t warm my heart, shouldn’t feel like the most romantic declaration of love, but with Nino they did.”

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

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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. “I love you,” she whispered, and we both stiffened at the same time. Her breathing hitched against my throat. Love?”

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

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38. “She wasn’t what I’d wanted in a wife, but hell, if she wasn’t exactly what I needed.”

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

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40. “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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41. “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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42. “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.”

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43. “Love can be as destructive as hatred.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “I swallowed. Be strong, Valentina. The wish of a dead man is sacred. Don’t break your promise.”

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46. “I decide what to hope for. You might rule over Las Vegas and over these men, but you don’t rule over me, Remo Falcone.”

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47. “We were both caught in an undercurrent, dragging us down into its unforgiving depth, unable to swim to the surface on our own. The only people who could save us only wanted to save one of us and see the other drown, but we were entangled. One of us would have to let go first to reach the surface.”

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48. “Just because someone isn’t alone doesn’t mean they aren’t lonely.”

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49. “You have Remo’s name tattooed on your arm.” Nino regarded me without a flicker of emotion. “I have Savio’s and Adamo’s name tattooed on my other arm.”

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50. “Don’t you understand? I’m a woman. I’m guilty by default. It’s always like that. They will say I asked for it. A smile means I’m flirting. A nice word means I’m asking for it. Revealing clothes mean I’m inviting touch. That is fact, Nino.”

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