Cora Reilly Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Maybe Father thought I was bad girl enough and didn't need a slutty outfit to emphasize that further.

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#3. Your sister is a fucking nuisance," Luca muttered in my ear.

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#4. 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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#5. Stop
trying to do what's right and do what feels good for you. You're fucking overthinking everything again.

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#6. 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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#7. ...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

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

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#9. So I'm not just going to manage a casino, I'll also be a bordello queen.

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#10. Did your father never teach you to hide your fear from monsters? They give chase if you run.

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#11. And who will protect me from him?

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#12. The idealistic world-improver was his mask,I'd realized.

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#13. 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.

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#14. 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.

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#15. She wasn't the little girl I'd first met. She was a woman in marriageable age now..

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#16. 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.

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#17. She's a fucking rat trying to humiliate a queen...She's nothing

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#18. You can tell me. I have a phone and am capable of operating it.

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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. 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.

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#21. Just beacause I'm wearing revealing clothes doesn't mean I'm inviting them to look.

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#22. 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.

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