Den of Sins Quotes

“I swear it’s like I’ve just been mega-dosed with breeding hormones because no matter how many times we do it, I seem to want more.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Stop making lemonade out of lemons. I am the definition of Stockholm Syndrome right now.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“She makes me feel.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Her trust feels like a gift. One that makes me feel strong and weak at once. Humbled. Highly protective.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Eyes usually give away the feelings that hide behind people’s masks,”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“I don’t hurt women. And I definitely don’t hurt the innocent. And she’s both.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“I renewed my oaths to him and the Outfit, or as the don likes to call it, la Cosa Nostra.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“I prefer an alpha male. I’m sure it’s a purely biological weakness many women share with me.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“I’m pretty sure he just ruined me for vanilla sex. Ruined me for kinder, gentler men.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“It was just so hot. So animalistic. Feral.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“the moment she kissed me, color bled back into my world.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Now I’m back, and I feel the sizzle of awkwardness in my veins. They don’t know me anymore, and I don’t know them. We are strangers to one another.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“My body’s stiff and jerky as I drop into the seat. Every step I take in my old shoes is like a goddamn out-of-body experience.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“My parents definitely think I made the wrong choice. They don’t say that outright—they’re more the type to let me make my own mistakes, but I sense their worry every time the topic comes up. I’m starting to wonder if I made a mistake too.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Mary Alice moved to Green Bay when her daughter had a baby last year, forcing me to choose between continuing my studies to become a nurse like my mom or buying the business from her.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“I take on other’s emotions to a crippling degree sometimes. Always a people pleaser.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“My shop, Garden of Eden, is a place that allows the sins of the mafia to grow.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Hannah Hannah Munn, Florist to the mob. That’s me.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“The cross around her neck only serves as a further reminder of how far I have fallen from the altar boy with dreams of one day becoming a priest like my childhood hero, Father Fantoni.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“It’s not often that the son of a devout Catholic ends up in prison. I know I’ve disappointed her in a way that can never be made right again.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“only the people in this room will treat me like a hero. To the rest of the world, I’m forever marked by my felony conviction. A criminal.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“you coulda warned me,” I mutter to Marco. We’re six months apart, me and him. Raised together. Fought together. We became Made Men together. We’re tighter than brothers.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Fifty-four months. That’s how long I served in the state pen. My colorless existence between four concrete walls.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“He came into the Outfit about the same time I did, but he has good insight into it. He is far wiser than his age or experience. He definitely possesses the old soul wisdom. Marco seems to be able to look at the organization objectively and notice what's really going on.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“The Outfit's getting more and more powerful, but it's losing its soul. A lot of the Made men are getting complacent. There's no more progress, you know? No old soul wisdom, as the don calls it.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“The florist shop is still next door, but Mary Alice sold the place to her apprentice, Hannah. Remember her? She was just a kid when you left, but she’s hot as fuck now….”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Prison could be contagious. No one wants to catch it.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Marco visited me here on occasion. He would drive up from Chicago, our hometown an hour away, to spend an hour updating me on what was going on with the Outfit. He, and sometimes his brother Leo, are the only ones who visited out of the La Famiglia.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“My cousin, Marco, waits for me,”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins

“Armando Is a sinner ever free? Regardless of the answer, I’m as close as you can get. I’m no longer trapped in a cage. The prison gates open, and I walk out with nothing but a paper bag that contains the few belongings I came in with.”
― Alta Hensley, Den of Sins