Top 150 Cora Reilly Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “So I’m not just going to manage a casino, I’ll also be a bordello queen.”

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52. “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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53. “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.”

— Cora Reilly

54. “I pressed a kiss to Anna’s forehead. I just couldn’t stop loving on her. “I love you,” Dante said quietly, almost hesitantly. I smiled. “Do you hear, Anna? Your daddy loves you.” Dante touched my cheek, bringing my attention to him and shook his head. “That’s not what I meant, even if it’s true. I love you, Val.”

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

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57. “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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58. “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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59. “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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60. “I guess then that means I don’t care enough. Because letting you go? That’s the one thing I’ll never do.”

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61. “What do you know about being a good mother? Or a decent human being?” My chest constricted briefly, but I pushed through it. “I know how to change a diaper for one, and I provided my brothers with protection when they needed it. That’s more than you can say for yourself.” She frowned. “When did you change a diaper?” “When Adamo was an infant, I was already ten,” I said. It was more than I had wanted to reveal in the first place.”

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62. “Little children quickly learn that closing your eyes from evil doesn’t protect you. It took me far too long to grasp that lesson.”

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63. “She gave me the letter that led me to you and Grace.” Saying her name made my stomach turn again, and unwanted memories resurfaced. I sat up, away from Luca’s warmth. I drew my legs up against my chest, overwhelmed by all that had happened.”

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64. “Seeing your father bleed to death at my feet would be worth the risk. You are worth it.”

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65. “Wherever his eyes touched my body, they branded me as his possession, the word ‘mine’ edged into my skin over and over again.”

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66. “That is the fifth time you shied back from me tonight.” He set down the glass and took the knife in his hand. Then he advanced on me. “Did your father never teach you to hide your fear from monsters? They give chase if you run.”

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67. “I don’t care if the world hates you, I’ll defend you against all of them.”

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68. “Right this moment I knew she’d be mine forever.”

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69. “I needed control, thrived on it, but around Valentina I often lost it completely.”

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70. “This woman was so much more than I’d expected, so much more than I could resist.”

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71. “I’d grown up among cruel men. But fate was so much crueler than any of them.”

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72. “We all have to die. We can choose to die standing up or on our knees begging for mercy.”

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73. “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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74. “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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75. “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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76. “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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77. “Maybe Father thought I was bad girl enough and didn’t need a slutty outfit to emphasize that further.”

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78. “I won’t become someone else only because you don’t like who I am. You can’t form me into the fie you want.”

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79. “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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80. “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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81. “What is the sin but a manmade phantasm?”

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82. “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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83. “Maddox and I looked at each other again, and this felt like a goodbye. One of us would likely die, maybe even the both of us. My heart clenched thinking this was the end for us, for a love that was never meant to be, a love without a chance at a happy end.”

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84. “Trust. Tenderness. And so many more emotions I didn’t understand. I’d never truly resented my incapability to feel, but in this moment I did.”

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85. “I’m not a good man, Aria. I never pretended otherwise. There are no good men in the mafia.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “She was like a beacon of light in the black of the room.”

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88. “You won’t ever get the chance to touch Marcella. And today I’ll make you regret every second of pain you made her feel. You’ll beg her for forgiveness and call her queen when I’m done with you.”

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89. “But I don’t care because loving you is the only pure thing in my life.”

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90. “He bent down, lips brushing my ear, and whispered, “Smile. You are the happy bride, remember?”

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91. “Sometimes I feel like my insides are a raging flood of emotions when I look at you, but I don’t mind drowning.”

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92. “I’m fairly sure God designed your body to drive men into insanity,” Remo said darkly. Stifling the excited thrill Remo’s words sent through me, I retorted, “You believe in God?” “No. I don’t. But looking at you, I could turn into a believer.” I huffed. “There’s a cozy warm place in Hell reserved just for you.”

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93. “And who will protect me from him?”

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94. “It would stop now. I was a prideful Mione woman, and it was time to act like one. Danilo be damned.”

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95. “I will take you to Chicago, but I won’t leave your side, Gianna. I won’t give you the chance to run from me again.”

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96. “Ballet,” she said as if she were talking about a lover, full of devotion and adoration, and I caught myself wishing she’d use that tone when talking about me.”

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97. “I knew only two things about Luca Vitiello: he would become the head of the New York mob once his father retired or died, and he got his nickname “The Vise” for crushing a man’s throat with his bare hands.”

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98. “Considering what kind of man I am and the sins I’ve committed, I don’t know why I deserve a daughter like you.”

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99. “I’d stand by him and support him as best as I could, because he was mine and I was his.”

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100. “Every morning I woke, I swore to myself I’d be a better man. A better Capo. A better husband. A better father.”

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