Luca Vitiello Quotes

“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.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“I’d never known love meant being scared all the time, scared of losing someone you couldn’t live without.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“But you are my first choice, Aria. I’ll burn down the world if I have to. I’ll kill and maim and blackmail. I’ll do anything for you.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“Born in Blood, Sworn in Blood. I enter alive and I leave dead,” I said firmly.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“She knew what I was, and for some reason that made me want to be good to her, to show her that there was more than brutality. At least when she was concerned.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“She put her head down on my chest. For some reason, it felt as if it were meant to be like this. As if Aria had always and would always belong right there - close to my cold, cruel heart.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“With the smile that always got me, she pressed her palm against my Famiglia tattoo, right over my heart. A cruel heart that only beat for her.
“Mine,” she said without doubt.
I held her gaze. “Always.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“All my life I'd thought becoming Capo would be the biggest triumph of my life. Not the happiest day, because I hadn't known true happiness. But now, as I met Aria's loving gaze, I knew that she was my greatest victory. Only she brought happiness into days of blood and violence. Only she could fill my dark world with light. She was my light, my love... my life.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“You are mine, Aria, and I protect what’s mine.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“My heart pounded in my chest, not just from the sprint, but from worry over my wife. My crying, hurt wife.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“it didn’t show strength to abuse someone who couldn’t protect themselves, someone meant to be under your protection. A man should know whom to treat with care and whom to crush.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“I was the boy who killed his first man at eleven.

I was the teenager who crushed his cousin’s throat at seventeen.

I was the man who bathed in his enemies’ blood without a flicker of remorse, who relished in their screams as if it was a fucking Mozart sonata.

Monsters are created, not born.

Bullshit.

I was born a monster. Cruelty ran in my veins like poison. It ran in the veins of every Vitiello man, passed on from father to son, an endless spiral of monstrosity.

I was a born monster shaped into an even worse monster by my father’s blade and fists and harsh words.

I was raised to become Capo, to rule without mercy, to dish out brutality without a second thought.

I was raised to break others.

When Aria was given to me in marriage, everyone waited with baited breath to see how fast I’d break her like my father broke his women. How I’d crush her innocence and kindness with the force of my cruelty, with relentless brutality.

Breaking her would have taken little effort. It came naturally to me.

A man born a monster, raised to be a monster, bound to be a monster to become Capo.

I was gladly the monster everyone feared.

Until her. Until Aria.

With her, I didn’t have to cover up my darkness.

Her light shone brighter than my darkness ever could.

With her, I didn’t want to be the monster. I wanted to shield her from that part of my nature.

But I was born a monster. Raised to break others.

Not breaking her would come with a price.

A price a monster like myself shouldn’t risk paying.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“Someone once told me not to run from monsters because they give chase.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“She was like a beacon of light in the black of the room.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“A man born a monster, raised to be a monster, bound to be a monster to become Capo.

I was gladly the monster everyone feared.

Until her. Until Aria”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“—Antes de tu muerte, la llamarás Reina.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“I didn't bother getting out of my blood-soaked clothes before heading home. I just wanted to see Aria, wanted to feel that calm and belonging her closeness miraculously brought me.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“I’m not a good man, Aria. I never pretended otherwise. There are no good men in the mafia.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello

“But you are my first choice Aria. I'll burn down the world if I have to. I'll kill and maim and blackmail. I'll do anything for you.”
― Cora Reilly, Luca Vitiello