Mafia Quotes

“So far Ramona hadn’t fixed a thing, other than her hunger to feel like a real woman.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Ramona wore nothing but cherry-scented perfume. Stanley clad only in white cotton crew socks. What’s up with that? Maybe his feet were cold; she didn’t ask.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Maybe it was Natalie’s round, mysterious cocoa colored eyes, the guts it took for a broad to chase crooks, that hooked him.”
― Nancy Mangano, Running Stop Signs

“Love was never meant to survive in the shadows, but we chose each other anyway, even if it meant turning the dark into fire.”
― Cindy Santiago, Ashes of the Heart

“No way would I ever marry a girl of his choice. Some naïve little Russian virgin who’d run crying to her (and worse my) father if I did anything in bed to her outside the missionary position. I couldn’t think of anything I’d enjoy less.”
― Anna Harding, Dark Atonement

“He wanted me, ME to marry the cherished sister of the unhinged boss of the Bratva. I didn’t want my boss knowing what I did in bed and I sure as fuck didn’t want Simon Nemov knowing what I did to his sister in bed.”
― Anna Harding, Dark Atonement

“She wasn’t a woman—she was a Goddess. And I’d bring down Heaven and Earth to make her mine.”
― Anna Harding, Forbidden Love

“Michael contempló el hermoso jardín... las imágenes de santos y la tapia rosada que rodeaba la villa. Era un decorado encantador para examinar a doce apóstoles del asesinato.”
― Mario Puzo, El siciliano (Spanish Edition) by Mario Puzo

“Yeah, your sister is far more forgiving than my brother, Selina,” Roman interjected, immediately drawing Nikolai’s attention—a grave mistake.
My husband was on his feet in less than a second, but I grabbed his arm.
“You took my wife to a damn street race !” he growled through clenched teeth.”
― Gateli Yozrel, The Last Hope: The Ivanov Brothers, Book I

“What are you doing ?” I whispered without realizing, my breath shallow.
He looked at me, raising an eyebrow, “trying to regain my strength—you know, the strength I lost after the sedative you injected me with.”
― Gateli Yozrel, The Last Hope: The Ivanov Brothers, Book I

“I don’t care about the crimes he’s committed or the violence he’s done. Maybe I should, but I trust that there was a reason for it. I know him well enough to know who he really is, and that’s good enough for me.”
― Sonja Grey, Paved in Rage

“God, the thought of her with a big round belly makes me feel like Simona might be right and that I might start banging my chest and grunting like a damn animal. I look down at my beautiful, pregnant fiancée and smile. This woman makes me downright feral.”
― Sonja Grey, Paved in Rage

“It will never be enough with her. I want to consume her. I want to own and possess every goddamn inch of her, and it scares the hell out of me, because the last thing I need is another weakness, another person who can be taken from me. I won’t survive it if it happens again. I know this, and the rational part of my brain is trying like hell to get me to pull back and put some distance between us.”
― Sonja Grey, Paved in Blood

“I can be happier than I ever thought possible with you, little sun, and I don’t want anyone else. I’m not a man who trusts easily. Aside from my brothers, I don’t give parts of myself to others, but you’ve had all of me since the night I met you. You give me so much more than you realize. I feel at peace when I’m with you, like I’ve found something that I hadn’t even realized I was looking for.”
― Sonja Grey, Paved in Blood

“The fall of Communism and the deregulation of the international financial markets in the late 1980s triggered a huge injection of cash into the global economy.”
― Misha Glenny, McMafia: A Journey through the Global Criminal Underworld

“It doesn’t matter if you start late.
It matters that you start.”
― Rina Kent, Throne of Vengeance

“Eloise I kill for a living. I kill for fun. I torture my enemies. I gut them. Then I come home to you and, fuck, I want to protect you. But the man you need protecting from most is your own husband.”
― Anna Harding, Dark Atonement

“She was giving a brilliant performance of terror. The realism was far more erotic than the usual giggling in a dark room with a whore in slutty lingerie. I appreciated her attention to detail and I appreciated her acting ability. This was going to be one hell of a fuck.”
― Anna Harding

“Maverick DeVille…whoever the fuck that is.”

Dante’s eyes narrowed in recognition. “I recognize that name. His family owns a cheese business outside of Florence. It’s been in their family since the days of kings.”

“My father wants me to marry a guy who smells like cheese?” I asked incredulously, not the least bit impressed with his family wealth. “If he made wine, then at least he would be somewhat useful. But cheese?”
― Penelope Sky, The Wolf and the Sheep

“Fine. Will you wear a wedding ring?”

The question was absurd. “No.”

“So, I have to wear one, but you don’t?”

“It’s different.”

“You mean, it’s sexist?”
― Penelope Sky, The Wolf and the Sheep

“If it weren’t for informants, the public would know nothing about the inner workings of La Cosa Nostra.”
― Nicholas Anthony Parisi, City of Betrayal: The Genovese Family's Springfield Crew

“He already sensed the danger lurking around him. The betrayal circling around his neck like an invisible noose. It didn’t surprise me that he would after a lifetime of it.”
― L. Dianna

“If you ever tried to leave, Lucius, you'll spend the rest of your life wishing you hadn't.”
― Katie Calvert , Tide of Treason

“El pasado es pasado... Nunca vuelvas atrás, ni para buscar pretextos ni para buscar justificaciones o felicidad. Eres lo que eres y el mundo es lo que es.”
― PUZO Mario -, The Last Don

“That lady would never be a fuck Enzo; I can tell she is a keeper!" the one guy said to the other man.”
― Nicole Eglinger, Watch Us Burn

“My work explores family and power as lived forces. I write fast, letting pressure expose character. I see my characters fully, in rooms, in moments, and the words follow. Editing is where I sharpen the sensory detail, so readers can see what I saw as I wrote.”
― Paul Smith, Marcella Sicilan Nostra

“Nowadays, the disease comes on a doctor’s prescription.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“I give him a death glare, “never threaten to kill that woman again?”
― Lauren Kross, An Angel for Tsar

“That was the thing about power, wasn't it? A double-edged sword that could cure the world or destroy it.”
― C. Lymari, Lies of Omission

“You look fucking beautiful,’ he said roughly. He loosened his tie with his other hand. ‘You like books and fantasy, don’t you?’
I nodded.
‘You like pretending? Ok. Well tonight you’re going to be allowed to do all the pretending you want.’ He unfastened his tie and, to my shock, tied it around my head, completely blotting out my vision.
‘Tonight,’ he said huskily, ‘I can be anyone you fucking need me to be.’ He lifted me up and carried me in his arms into the bedroom. ‘You want to imagine you’re being ravished on a pirate ship or seduced in some sultan’s palace, then do it. Close your eyes and believe whatever works for you.’
He laid me gently on the bed and slipped his hand between my legs. ‘Just feel, Lilia,’ he said. ‘No thinking, just feel…”
― Anna Harding, Cruel Punishment