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“I swallowed. “I don’t want to do this if there are going to be other women, Nico. I can’t.” He watched me for two tense seconds. “You’re enough for me.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“I wasn’t usually a betting girl, but I would put all of my papà’s ill-gotten gains on the idea that this man fucked just like he drove. With complete control and confidence.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Hit a woman in front of me and you won’t be alive to do it again,” Nico growled.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“I don’t need to keep you a secret, Elena,” he said, going to tend to his pan on the stove. “I just don’t have the patience to listen to what people think I should do with what’s mine.” Mine.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“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, The Sweetest Oblivion

“This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“You can only sink or swim.

You can’t swim in the underworld, but I’d always heard drowning was the best way to go.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Burn that shirt.” He then left without another word. I glanced down at my pink Yankees t-shirt. I guessed Nico was a Red Sox fan. We really wouldn’t work out now.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Tell me what to fucking do again.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“His voice was deep, soft, yet laced with frustration that he even had to say it. “I’m not going to hurt you.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“I wanted to know him, just so I could understand how he would react. At least, that’s what I told myself. I wanted to know what he did last night. What his middle name was. Who he had loved or who he did. I wanted to know everything, and that made my chest ache with the inevitable break.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Tell me,” Sebastian said, “why did you do it?” A heavy silence took over, and my chest tightened at Nico’s cavalier tone. “He had something I wanted.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“It was the Russo blood in me. It wanted what it wanted, and fuck everything else.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“His lips pressed against my ear. “You want to know a secret?” I shivered at the deep voice, but I didn’t answer because I was still trying to figure out how to breathe with him inside me. “I’ve never fucked a woman without a condom.” He nuzzled my neck. His voice was warm and smooth, but his teeth were clenched. “And I’m afraid you’ve just created a monster.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” —Marilyn Monroe”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“I only spoke Italian when I wanted to curse. I hardly ever swore, except for damn, hell, and maybe ass with a hole on the end now that I’d met Nicolas.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“He laughed. Softly, darkly. The kind of laugh that has no good intentions.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Nico didn’t treat me like glass. He shattered the reflection of an empty life staring back at me. He taught me how to soar.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” —Cesare Pavese”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Gonna come,” was all he said. My brows pulled together. “That was quick.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“She was mine. And I’d kill anyone who told me otherwise.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“He smelled so good. Felt so good. Like comfort, security, and need, all in one. There was a name to it, but I didn’t know what.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Hands grasped my face, turning it. “Are you okay?” Nico repeated.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“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, The Sweetest Oblivion

“First man I killed, I shoved an ace of spades down his throat.” I swallowed as he took a step back and walked away from me. “Name’s been with me ever since.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“You sound angry, Elena.” Nicolas’s voice was tainted with something dangerous. “Maybe you should cool off.” My brows knitted. “What? No—” I never got to finish what I had to say. Because, with one hand on my side, Nicolas pushed me into the pool.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.” —John Webster”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“he pulled out his wallet and tossed a black credit card on the counter—“for all that money you spend.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“I couldn’t fall in love with this man. I would rather never fall in love at all than to experience it unrequited. I’d seen it enough times to despise the possibility.”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion

“Nonna harrumphed. “Since when are you into beta males, Elena?”
― Danielle Lori, The Sweetest Oblivion