Top 200 Danielle Lori Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Even if Salvatore does change his mind,” Nonna said, “I’m sure she’s already as knocked up as your other daughter.”

— Danielle Lori

152. “Bottomless. Blue. My heart beat heavy, because I knew if I stared too long I’d be trapped beneath ice.”

— Danielle Lori

153. “No, I want you. But I don’t want the heartache you’ll bring along.”

— Danielle Lori

154. “Would you visit my grave if I died?” His eyes grew dark. “I’d die before you were ever in a grave, malyshka.” I loved his possessive side. And I loved his dark side, too.”

— Danielle Lori

155. “I’m going to ruin every part of your body for any other man, malyshka, and you’re going to thank me when I’m done.” I was making a deal with the devil. And I couldn’t even find the grace to save myself.”

— Danielle Lori

156. “My last thought before the final please left my lips and the pressure exploded through my veins like an inferno was: He loves to be begged.”

— Danielle Lori

157. “We lay side by side and watched a girl fall in love. One of us already had, and the other knew she never would.”

— Danielle Lori

158. “I love you,” I breathed.”

— Danielle Lori

159. “The second look showed the type of body women groaned over, and the third revealed intellect in every move he made, as though everyone else was a chess piece, and he was musing over how to play each one of us.”

— Danielle Lori

160. “He’d never looked at me this way, with such a soft, consuming desire in his eyes, like he’d never seen a woman before. Like I was everything. It terrified me.”

— Danielle Lori

161. “His presence, however, was like a light in the dark.”

— Danielle Lori

162. “What do you mean, like do I carry a membership card that says ‘Mafia’ on it?”

— Danielle Lori

163. “She glanced up at me. Her eyes were a window to her soul. I suddenly knew, if I ever died, those eyes would have something to do with it. Somehow, it sounded acceptable to me.”

— Danielle Lori

164. “You’re disturbed,” I breathed. “Do that again.”

— Danielle Lori

165. “I backed up and was only aided when a soft yet consuming grip came to my throat and he lightly pushed me. I fell back a step until I hit the wall. It was an aggressive move, but the way he did it so gently, so absolutely, made something flutter in my chest and spread throughout my body. Want. Need. He stepped.”

— Danielle Lori

166. “Do not waste your time on things you cannot change.”

— Danielle Lori

167. “Maybe my roots were too deep, or maybe love gave a woman a reason to let her dark colors shine, because I suddenly knew I would lie, cheat, and steal for this man. I would burn the world for him. He was King of the Cosa Nostra. And he was all mine.”

— Danielle Lori

168. “You can’t swim in the underworld, but I’d always heard drowning was the best way to go.”

— Danielle Lori

169. “I swallowed. “Who touches me is none of your business.” “It’s always been my business.”

— Danielle Lori

170. “Evoking such a lack of control from the cold fed was addictive. I wanted so much more.”

— Danielle Lori

171. “You’ll never be done with me.” He grasped me by the throat, pushed me back against the car, and swallowed my next breath in his mouth.”

— Danielle Lori

172. “Interrogation. It takes about twenty minutes to break someone – to make a grown man cry for his mother. I could have you screaming in two.”

— Danielle Lori

173. “It tasted like hope and happiness. But as the words faded from existence, the slightest aftertaste of heartbreak remained.”

— Danielle Lori

174. “You’re not afraid of me.” We were so close his cheek brushed my tear-streaked one when he rasped, “And, baby, I’m worse than the dark.”

— Danielle Lori

175. “I needed him. More than morality or honesty.”

— Danielle Lori

176. “Nicolas’s larger, warmer one. His pulled you in, didn’t send you away. It was infinitely more dangerous.”

— Danielle Lori

177. “I hated tall men, how they were always looking down on me, always looming over me like a cloud blocking out the sun.”

— Danielle Lori

178. “He was much different than a man I would choose in a crowd, but maybe that was why I found him so appealing. He terrified me a little bit, and I always did like to live on the edge.”

— Danielle Lori

179. “I hate you.” “I think about you.”

— Danielle Lori

180. “I wanted to be the best thing he’d ever had. To make him burn as much as he made me. I wanted him to want only me with a raw ache.”

— Danielle Lori

181. “How fast does this thing go?” I asked. His head tilted to the side, catching my gaze. He held it for a moment before turning back to the road. “Fast.” I pulled my bottom lip between my teeth, trying to think of how to respond. What I came up with was, “How fast?” He didn’t glance at me, but a small smile appeared. “Show me.” It escaped my lips on a breath, quiet and suggestive.”

— Danielle Lori

182. “I was so full of him, and with his mouth on mine I felt overwhelmed. Complete. Consumed. And I never wanted to come up for air.”

— Danielle Lori

183. “His gaze met mine. Blue. Cool silk sheets beneath a darkening sky. Although, there was something else. A flicker of something bright and full of life. Like the reflection in a neurotic person’s eyes. It was madness. It was obsession.”

— Danielle Lori

184. “This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.”

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185. “My heart would never be his. It was the one thing in my life that was mine, and I would never sign it over.”

— Danielle Lori

186. “Most of all, I did it because I wanted to. I screamed.”

— Danielle Lori

187. “His hands remained braced on the frame above me. Hot and wet, he kissed a path down my neck that set off sparks deep in my core. My vision turned hazy, a heavy heartbeat pounding between my legs. I was a combustible ball of fire burning hotter every second.”

— Danielle Lori

188. “I’m glad to see you remember, malyshka, because there is nothing I have ever forgotten about you.”

— Danielle Lori

189. “How are you going to explain why you’re with me?” You’re mine. And I go where you go.”

— Danielle Lori

190. “Do you eat?” He raised a brow, consuming that glass of green yuck in one drink. “Like, solids? Or do you blend all the children’s souls beforehand?”

— Danielle Lori

191. “It means, like mine.”

— Danielle Lori

192. “You hit him,” I challenged. “That was necessary to regain my concentration.” “Your concentration of watching me sleep.” “Yes,” he growled.”

— Danielle Lori

193. “I loved how big he was and how I always felt small and safe with him. The truth was, I loved everything about him and there was no going back. It was full speed ahead, like a train that couldn’t stop for the girl standing with wide eyes on the tracks.”

— Danielle Lori

194. “Because you’ll fall in love with her,” she said. “And she won’t love you back.”

— Danielle Lori

195. “Finally, the black-hearted Russo knows what it’s like to be whipped.”

— Danielle Lori

196. “He was the glimmer of adrenaline, the roughness of tracks beneath bare feet, and the siren of a freight train coming head-on. And I was fascinated. His eyes were unreadable. “You will be safe here.” I believed him. But before his dark silhouette disappeared from view, I remembered what “moy kotyonok” meant. My kitten.”

— Danielle Lori

197. “Like a childhood dress that didn’t fit anymore, I was stuck in the world’s expectations for me.”

— Danielle Lori

198. “That’s not a good enough reason for me to marry you, Christian.” “Fine.” He shook his head, his eyes flashing with darkness. “How about because I love you, Gianna? Because I think I have since the moment I saw you? Because if you weren’t in this world anymore, I would find a way to take myself out of it?”

— Danielle Lori

199. “You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.” – Albert Einstein.”

— Danielle Lori

200. “Why are you such a hippie?” “Why are you such a mobster?”

— Danielle Lori