I have a matter of life and death I would like to discuss. I am a prophet like David. Thus sang the Lord: "Son of man, don't you know you are my treasure? One day, all my enemies will be deceased! At that time, men on Earth will prosper, and society will live in peace! Son of man, go and tell the people, the marijuana, coca, and opiates are from me! I do not want my people to abuse them, but I want my people to party!" Love the Lord the Father of Israel and Yahshua AKA Lord Almighty Jesus Christ! Amen. Ho una questione di vita o di morte di cui vorrei discutere. Sono un profeta come Davide. Così cantava il Signore: "Figlio dell'uomo, non sai che sei il mio tesoro? Un giorno, tutti i miei nemici saranno morti! In quel momento, gli uomini sulla Terra prospereranno e la società vivrà in pace! Figlio dell'uomo , vai a dire alla gente che la marijuana, la coca e gli oppiacei sono da me! Non voglio che la mia gente ne abusi, ma voglio che la mia gente faccia festa! " Ama il Signore il Padre! -A Son of Man!
That is an example of a message sent between two mafia men. I sent that message myself and tis a quote of me, "Elijah Don Quickwit" my chosen name from Las Vegas Nevada! I affirm I desire to deliver this website organized, polished, and perfectly to the heart. Eventually I will read all these and edit them, but tis a burden for me now and while not making this page was a burden, reading the opinions of over 200 random strangers is a burden. Love the Lord Jesus Christ the King Love Almighty God the Lord Almighty of Israel! Amen!
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“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
― John Gottman (
tags: business, crime, humor, inspirational, mafia
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism
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“Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,
your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don
tags: don, family-values, life, mafia, rules
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“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive”
― Mario Puzo
tags: life, love, mafia
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“Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.”
― J.J. McAvoy, Ruthless People
tags: funny, liam, love, mafia, melody, ruthless-people
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“The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
tags: crime, diplomacy, mafia
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“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
― Stefan Molyneux
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, collectivism, communism, countries, delusion, democracy, evil, fascism, freedom, government, knowledge, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nationalism, nations, nazis, patriotism, philosophy, politics, psychopath, rationality, religion, self-esteem, self-knowledge, socialism, states, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, voluntaryism
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“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, state, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism
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“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law." It is, therefore, impossible to be a "law enforcer" and behave morally, for the same reason one can't be a moral car-jacker.”
― Larken Rose
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, crime, evil, free, freedom, government, laissez, law, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, peace, police, politics, socialism, society, state, statism, violence, voluntaryism, war
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“I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.”
― Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., A White Man Speaks Out
tags: bibliophile, books, jail, mafia, pioneer, prison, reading, vikings
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“I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove
tags: choices, family, honor, life, loyalty, mafia, mob, mobster, pride, protection
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“God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals”
― Mario Puzo
tags: life, mafia, strength
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“The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!”
― Jerry Seinfeld
tags: government, humor, irs, mafia
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“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, criminal, freedom, gang, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism
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“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang's turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoctrination is. Meanwhile, even a brief objective examination of the concepts should make anyone see the lunacy of it. 'Wait, so every time I produce anything or trade with anyone, I have to give a cut to the local crime lord??' 'Wait, so I have to keep paying every year, for the privilege of keeping the property I already finished paying for??' And not only do most people not make such obvious observations, but if they hear someone else pointing out such things, the well-trained Stockholm Syndrome slaves usually make arguments condoning their own victimization. Thus is the power of the mind control that comes from repeated exposure to BS political mythology and propaganda.”
― Larken Rose
tags: anarchy, ancap, brainwashing, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, force, free, free-market, freedom, government, indoctrination, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, media, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, propaganda, public, public-education, school, schooling, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.”
― Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
tags: film-industry, humor, idiom, mafia, mob, movie-business
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“I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.”
― William Balsamo, Crime Incorporated: The Inside Story of the Mafia's First 100 Years
tags: crime, mafia
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“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, collectivism, force, free-market, freedom, gang, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, monopoly, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism
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“When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?”
― T. Rafael Cimino, The Heir Apparent
tags: mafia, media, politics
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“Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and yale.Me?I was brought up like a mushroom.”
― Frank Costello
tags: mafia
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“Слухи о том, что он связан с японской мафией, сделали его в моих глазах еще более привлекательным. Ну кто не хочет иметь своего человека в мафии?”
― Кауи Харт Хеммингс
tags: mafia
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“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to a man from the North, and he visualizes the scene of an accident with one dead and one injured man; it's reasonable to let the dead man be and to set about saving the injured man. But a Sicilian visualizes a murdered man and his murderer, and the living man who's to be helped is the murderer.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, To Each His Own
tags: italy, mafia, sicily
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“You're not driving home if it's late, though. I am accustomed to dropping my women off at their door," he snickered because he knew she'd blush and he wanted her to, "and sometimes I put them to bed.”
― S.W. Frank, Alfonzo
tags: alfonzo, mafia
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“Loyalty is beyond what anyone can explain, someone may claim to love you but still betray you, only a loyal person can stay with you even if it's going to cost them their peace and joy.”
― Bamigboye Olurotimi
tags: betrayer, death, determination, friendship, honesty, leadership, life, loyalty, mafia, trust
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“Loyalty has nothing to do with having billions in your accounts, giving food to the poor, having rich people as friends or allies, it's about having people in your life who are ready to die for you to live.”
― Bamigboye Olurotimi
tags: betrayer, death, determination, friendship, honesty, leadership, life, loyalty, mafia, trust
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“Every life I take, I give to you. I will bathe in the blood of any man who tries to come for you, for our family.”
― MINK, His Virgin Queen
tags: devotion, mafia
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“Can you not forgive him, Ricco? Please, I am begging you, for his sake. . . please forgive him.”
Their eyes locked.
His, agonizing.
Hers, pleading.
“You truly loved him, did you? You loved my grandfather.”
She met his gaze unflinchingly. “I wouldn’t marry a man I do not love.”
“Enough to ask forgiveness for his stead?”
She nodded solemnly. “And more, if need be. I would do anything for him who had done nothing but kindness to me because he deserved it, Ricco. Despite everything he’d done, and because of everything he did for you, your grandfather . . . deserved to be un-hated.”
― Mayumi Cruz, The Billionaire's Widow
tags: billionaire, italian, love, mafia, revenge, romance, widow
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“There are too many whys between us. How do we cross that interminably long bridge?”
― Mayumi Cruz, The Billionaire's Widow
tags: drama, italian-mafia, mafia, romance, suspense, suspense-romance
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“A society like the Italian, the very disorder of which renders the action of the State useless and ridiculous, is not without its charm and helps us to grasp this political truth: the principal task of the State today is to justify its own existence. To do so, it has to annihilate society's capacity to survive by itself. Surreptitiously undermining all forms of spontaneous regulation, deregulating, desocializing, breaking down the traditional mechanisms of bodies and antibodies, in order to substitute its artificial mechanisms - such is the strategy of a State locked in a subtle struggle with society - exactly like medicine, which lives off the destruction of natural defences and their replacement by artificial ones.
In Rome, Niccolini manages to counter the obsessive fear of terrorism with a cultural revival. To the Romans who no longer dare go out in the evenings he offers festivals, performances, poetry galas. He brings culture down into the street. He combats the terrorist festival with the cultural, advertising festival. He will be criticized for wasteful expenditure, but the only way to fight terrorism is not to create 'solid' institutions, but to put upon the stage a culture that is as sacrificial, eccentric, and ephemeral as the terrorist acts themselves. One festival against the other. If terrorism is a sort of murderous advertising campaign which keeps our imagination on tenterhooks, it can be countered only by a piece of even more effective advertising.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
tags: advertising, culture, mafia, medicine, mob, society, state, terrorism
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“She looked like what she was.
A woman on a mission.
Stone fucking cold.
A part of me itched to slip my hands up her skirt, to warm her up.”
― Jessica Gadziala, The Woman in the Trunk
tags: cold-women, mafia
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“The family that eats together maintains a successful interstellar criminal organization together!”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina
tags: mafia
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“When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed. I really thought that after getting killed on The Sopranos, I should not accept scripts where I die. I mean, there's nowhere to go after getting killed by Tony Soprano.”
― Steve Buscemi
tags: acting, art, character, comedy, death, funny, humor, life-quotes, mafia, steve-buscemi
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“It's better to live one day as a lion than a thousand as a lamb." -- Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo (boss of the Philadelphia/Atlantic City Mafia Family)”
― Roman Martin
tags: humor, mafia, non-fiction, true-crime
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“Brutality was never something that Made Men wanted to hide. They were too proud of it.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“There was nothing good in him, just as he said. Black. Pitch black.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“But no one cared about the fake news as long as there was something to talk about.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense-thriller, thriller
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“And here I thought you were a good girl, like your mother. Taking after her in all aspects.”
“Rage is the one thing I got from my father,”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Are you ready for your first mission as a made man?”
― Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Sons of War
tags: mafia, post-apocalyptic
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“This is a tough business. The cops, the army…,” he said, and he appeared to be struggling for words. “Put a uniform on somebody, tell ’em you got to kill this other guy because he’s the bad guy, you got to kill him—and then anybody can pull the trigger. But in this business, sometimes you got to kill people who maybe they’re your friends.” He stopped and shrugged, as if he were taking a moment to think about this himself. “That’s the way it is in this business. Sometimes maybe it’s even people you love and you got to do it. That’s just the way it is,” he repeated, “in this business.”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone
tags: mafia, mob, murder
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“After all, she had learned something from her father. People preyed on the weak and she was anything but.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“She didn’t have a choice. Not once in her life had someone asked her what she wanted or needed. It was always about the Famiglia.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Family was important for every Sicilian. But the Famiglia was just as important, if not more.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Everything revolved around money and power while she was just a mere piece of the equation.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“She wanted to be strong no matter what the mafia world made females look like. Just because she was a woman didn’t mean that she was born to be fragile. A far cry from it.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“It was the goddamned mafia world that had made her this way. Lies didn’t fall far from the Made Men’s occupation. More often than not it was impossible to detach one from the other.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“She was always meant to follow rules. That much was sure by a single glance her way.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“He was a monster, but she could only pray that he had a fraction of humanity left in him.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Falcone elenca le scoperte che il discorso di Buscetta consente. Cosa Nostra ha la sua ideologia, anche se censurabile. Sfrutta certi valori del popolo siciliano: l'amicizia, l'onore, il rispetto della famiglia, la lealtà... La mafia strumentalizza virtù e meriti, è un inganno storico.”
― Enzo Biagi, Il Boss è solo: La vera storia di un vero padrino
tags: mafia
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“People do bad things in order to survive.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“L'uomo d'onore vive nel terrore di essere giudicato: per questo non è mai sincero nella parola e spontaneo nelle iniziative. Ricorre, e negli anni diventerà un esperto, alla ipocrisia, farà in modo di non essere mai il primo ad esprimere la sua opinione, e si accorderà sempre, anche controvoglia, con la decisione dei più, che come lui non sono schietti e aperti, ma seguono le direttive di altri più furbi di loro" (Tommaso Buscetta)”
― Enzo Biagi, Il Boss è solo: La vera storia di un vero padrino
tags: mafia
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“Your faith in a better life is not a salvation. It will only lead you to total destruction.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“The Mafia, Donna Poldina, is just an invention of the fascists in the north.”
― Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
tags: fake, invention, mafia, organized-crime
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“Well organized criminal group we call mafia, the best organized mafia we call the state.”
― Andrzej Majewski, Aphorisms - quotations about: life, art, woman&man, politics and money: 64 fields
tags: criminal, criminal-group, government, mafia, policy, state
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“She indeed was his sickness. But he no longer wanted to be cured. He didn’t care if it was a sickness or some dangerous form of cancer, as she long as she stayed near him.”
― Meena Love, Heart of the Beast
tags: alpha-male, alpha-male-romance, arms-dealers, beast, crime-lord, mafia, romantic-book-quotes, romantic-suspense
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“All fairy night clubs and gathering places are illegal, and operate only through pay-offs to the authorities. They are organized into a national circuit, controlled by the Mafia which also finds unique opportunity to sell dope in such dives. Many gangsters like it that way, too, after indoctrination in prison.”
― Lee Mortimer, U.S.A. Confidential
tags: gay, lgbtq, mafia
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“Firenza said, “I kind of like Pete. He’s a funny guy.”
“We’ll send him a nice wreath,” Bocatelli said. “The family will appreciate it.”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone
tags: mafia, mob, murder
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“Sometimes there's nothing more satisfying than a good old-fashioned sandwich with potato salad.”
― Dianne Harman
tags: appraisals, art-glass, dogs, horses-palm-springs, mafia, polo, sisters, trusts, weddings
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“There are still people in New York who call themselves Italian
Mafia, but it is a motley collection of low-level criminals that would
embarrass Lucky Luciano. It more closely resembles The Sopranos, without
the therapist.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
tags: crime, mafia, mobsters
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“México es el origen de todo. El mundo en el que ahora respiramos es China, es la India, pero es también México. Quien no conoce México no puede entender cómo funciona hoy la riqueza en este planeta. Quien ignora a México no entenderá nunca el destino de las democracias transfiguradas por los flujos del narcotráfico.”
― Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero
tags: cocaine, drugs, mafia, mexico, money, narco, narcos, power
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“I love her. But I hate her, too. How can I feel both for her. . . at the same time?”
― Mayumi Cruz, The Billionaire's Widow
tags: crime, drama, italy, mafia, revenge, romance, romance-novels, suspense, suspense-and-drama
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“Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
tags: alpha-male, love, mafia, mafia-princess, mafia-romance, protection, safety
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“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”
― Ayn Rand
tags: clinton, collectivism, communism, corruption, evil, freedom, gang, government, hillary, libertarian, liberty, mafia, objectivism, politics, socialism, state, statism
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“Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?
Asher: Because I like you.
Lucy: Why do you want me to go?
Asher: Because I like you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
tags: friendship, friendship-and-love, like, love, lust, mafia, mafia-princess, mafia-romance
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“Is this how Julia Roberts' character feels like in Pretty Woman? Two parts princess, one part whore?”
― Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
tags: cinderella, clothes, love, love-story, lovers, lust, mafia, mafia-princess, mafia-romance, mob-romance, pretty-woman, princess, whore, whoring
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“For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.”
― Nicholas Pileggi, Goodfellas: Screenplay
tags: mafia, movie-quote
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“If the Clericuzio Family was the Holy Church for the Mafia empires scattered over the United States, then the head of the Family, Don Domenico Clericuzio was the Pope, admired not only for his intelligence but for his strength.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don
tags: mafia, power
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“For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. "You want to learn," he said. "Now listen to me. A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone else calls honor. This dishonor, as you call it, I willingly take upon myself. I did it to save your life as you once took on dishonor to save mine. You would have never left Sicily alive without Don Croce's protection. So be it. Do you want to be a hero like Guiliano, a legend? And dead? I love him as the son of my dear friends, but I do not envy him his fame. You are alive and he is dead. Always remember that and live your life not be be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish."
Michael sighed. "Guiliano had no choice," he said.
"We are more fortunate," the Don said.
It was the first lesson Michael received from his father and the one he learned best. It was to color his future life, persuade him to make terrible decisions he could never have dreamed of making before. It changed his perception of honor and heroism. It helped him survive, but it made him unhappy. For despite the fact that his father did not envy Guiliano, Michael did.”
― Mario Puzo, The Sicilian
tags: heroism, honor, inevitability, mafia, michael-corleone, survival, the-godfather, the-sicilian, vito-corleone
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“It’s true, I couldn’t see how you’d fit. But then I found out my life doesn’t fit me anymore. Not without you.”
― Renee Rose, The Russian
tags: alpha-male, bad-boy, bdsm, mafia, novella, tattooes, the-russian
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“Fame, power,money,love. The moon, the stars, the whole galaxy. Give it to me.My fetish is domination; not of men, not of my self, of everything. A shiver goes up my spine when I watch other bow their head, In my previous life I must have been a born great queen”
― J.J. McAvoy, Vicious Minds
tags: love-fiercely, mafia, mob
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“Boys. It’s late. If you’re not gonna kill me, what do you want?”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone
tags: crime, funny, humor, mafia, murder, peter-clemenza
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“There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke the rules with impunity. A man who feared nothing. A very, very dangerous man.”
― Sarah Castille, Luca
tags: contemporary-romance, fiction, mafia, romance, romantic-suspense
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“A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.”
― Basma Salem, The Art Of Black
tags: enemy, friends, gang, mafia
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“Everyone thought the mob was done after RICO.... And they were. Then the Towers came down. Overnight, the feds shifted three-quarters of their personnel into anti-terrorism and the mob made a comeback. Shit, they even made a fortune overcharging for debris removal from Ground Zero.... 9/11 saved the mafia.”
― Don Winslow, The Force
tags: 9-11, fbi, ground-zero, mafia, mob, new-york-city
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“In 1934, strongman Fulgencio Batista forced President Grau’s resignation. Then in 1940, Grau lost his bid for the Presidency to his adversary Batista. Four years later in 1944, he did win the election and took office for a four-year term starting on October 10th. After Grau won the election and was the President elect, Batista still in office, blatantly attacked the National Treasury, leaving the cupboards bare by the time Grau was actually sworn in as President.
Since Grau and Batista were staunch adversaries, it is highly unlikely that any deal could have been made in 1946 to allow “Lucky” Luciano into Cuba, especially with Luciano having been exiled to Sicily by the United States government that preceding February. Still, Lansky had enough political pull within the Cuban government to prepare for a strong Mafia presence in Havana.
In October of 1946, in an attempt to keep his whereabouts a secret, “Lucky” Luciano covertly boarded a freighter taking him from Naples, Italy, to Caracas, Venezuela. Then Luciano flew south to Rio de Janeiro and returned north to Mexico City. On October 29, 1946, he arranged for a private flight from Mexico City to Camagüey, Cuba, where Meyer Lansky met him. Having the right connections, Luciano passed through Cuban customs unimpeded and was whisked by car to the splendid Grand Hotel.
Luciano, having just arrived in Cuba, was looking forward to setting up operations. Cuba would actually be a better place than the United States for what he had in mind.”
― Captain Hank Bracker
tags: cuban-history, lansky, luciano, mafia, mob
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“A Conspiracy Theory that took hold was introduced by Anthony “Tony” Summers, the respected author of The Kennedy Conspiracy, published in 1980 and again in 1998 as “Not in Your Lifetime.” He believes that anti-Castro activists, funded by Mafia mobsters who had been ousted from Cuba, killed Kennedy. Summers believes that members of the CIA took part in this conspiracy and named the people he suspected. Summers also stated in an article published in the National Enquirer magazine, on October 25, 2013, that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone. The National Enquirer stated that Herminio Diaz, born in Cuba in 1923, had, in 1948, shot Pipi Hernandez, who was a Dominican exile employed at the naval base at Guantanamo. This killing took place at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico. In 1957, he was involved with an assassination attempt against President José Figueres of Costa Rica, who incidentally was a trained Army Ranger and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
According to JFKFacts published on May 27, 2014, General Fabián Escalante, the historian of Cuban State Security and Castro’s former bodyguard, said that the assassin Herminio Diaz, along with Eladio del Valle and three American mobsters: Richard Gaines, Lenny Patrick, and Dave Yara, were the shooters at Dealey Plaza.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba"
tags: american-history, conspiracy-theory, kennedy-assassination, mafia
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“Una de las cosas que sí tenía clara acerca de aquellas organizacio-nes era lo que tan bien recitaba aquel dicho italiano: la sangre llama a la sangre. Si traicionas o engañas a un mafioso, ten por seguro que la muerte vendrá a ti; si sales de la mafia, lo harás dentro de una bolsa para cadáveres.”
― Paquibel Sánchez Rueda, No existe el perdón
tags: italia, mafia, muerte, sangre
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“Marita Lorenz, was born on August 18, 1939, in Bremen, Germany. In January of 1960 Marita, described as an attractive “curvy, black-haired young lady was named American’s “Mata Hari” by New York Daily News reporter Paul Meskil. Having had an affair with Fidel Castro that turned sour, she now returned to Havana where she attempted to take part in an assassination attempt, supposedly orchestrated by the Mafia and the CIA. Marita brought along poison pills in her cold cream jar, which predictably melted in the tropical heat. Besides, she later said that she really did not have the stomach for killing her former lover. Apparently Castro aware of why she returned to Cuba, handed her his pistol with a dare for her to use it. Even after knowing the truth regarding her visit, he allowed her to safely leave Cuba.
Returning to Miami, Marita said that Frank Sturgis, presumably a CIA operative, was involved in this attempt, however it was his close associate, Alex Rorke, who was responsible for orchestrating the plan to poison Castro. Sturgis was extremely angry when she returned and rebuked her for putting the pills into the warm cold cream, calling her stupid, over and over again.
For a few years after leaving the island, Marita was looked after and protected by a mobster named Ed Levi. It was his job to protect her from, what was considered, a likely attempt on her life by “Cuban Intelligence Operatives.” In 1961, Marita met Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the former President of Venezuela, in Miami. Marcos told her that he was anxious to meet her because he knew she was “Fidel's girl." He successfully pursued Marita, and when she gave in, they had an affair that resulted in the birth of a daughter.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba
tags: cia, cuban-history, mafia, sex
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“My father was a renowned chef, who had learned his trade as an apprentice in Europe. During the depression with work hard to find, he accepted employment at Mafia run speakeasies “The Top Hat” and the “Gay Haven,” along with some other similar places, were roughshod, working class nightclubs in Union City, New Jersey, that hosted top performers. Ultimately, being recognized for his abilities, my father was offered the position of “Sous Chef” at the famous Lindy’s Restaurant in New York City, referred to as “Mindy’s” in Damon Runyon’s Broadway play “Guys and Dolls.” Being a loyal employee, he worked at Lindy’s for over three decades until his retirement. Union City, New Jersey, now has the second largest Cuban population concentration in the United States. But in earlier times it was known for having the rowdy “Hudson Burlesque,” as well as gathering places at the “Transfer Station,” where “men of means” could connect with “ladies of the night” and buy them a drink at one of the classy watering holes, such as the “Key Hole Bar and Grill.” I guess that it all came under the heading of “Entertainment.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One...."
tags: mafia, nightclubs, restaurants, speakeasies
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“People in Sicily were unsure which possible scenario was worse: that a judge entrusted with the most delicate mafia cases had sold himself to the enemy of that an honest man had been destroyed by an occult hand. Some suggested a third possibly, that Signorino was not guilty of outright collusion but that he had committed some impropriety, accepted some favor, met or knew certain people of dubious reputation, which would invariant create an appearance of guilt with which he could not live.”
― Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
tags: mafia
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“The following year, on June 20, 1947, not suspecting what was about to happen, Bugsy Siegel was sitting on a couch in the living room of Virginia Hill’s home at 810 Linden Drive in Beverly Hills. As he was reading a newspaper, an assassin fired a number of shots, from a rifle, through the front window. Siegel was shot twice in the head, with one bullet exiting his skull near the bridge of his nose, causing his left eye to be blown out of its socket. He was also hit twice in the torso. His death was instantaneous and the graphic photos of his bullet-riddled body made headline news. Although there were enough suspects to go around, Eddie Cannizzaro, the “Cat Man,” a connected west coast mobster, made a deathbed confession that he was the one who carried out the contract. Although the case isn’t closed, it is cold and will most likely remain so, as it rests on the desk of Detective Les Zoeller of the Los Angeles Police Department.”
― Captain Hank Bracker
tags: american-history, mafia, the-exciting-story-of-cuba
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“I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill my children, Don Franchetti'.”
― Garth Ennis, The Darkness: Origins, Volume 1
tags: mafia
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“«Un omo dovrebbe campare quanto è di giusto. Novant'anni sono assà, troppi. E addiventano ancora chiussà quanno che uno è obbligato a ripigliare le cose in mano doppo che pinsàva d'essersene sbarazzato. E la facenna di Japichinu mi ha consumatu, dottore. Non dormu per la prioccupazione. È macari malatu di petto. Io ci dissi: consegnati ai carrabbinera, almeno ti curano, Ma Japichinu è picciotto, tistardu come tutti i picciotti. Comunque, io ho dovuto ripinsàri a pigliari la famiglia in manu. Ed è difficili, difficili assà. Pirchì intantu lu tempu è andato avanti, e gli òmini si sono cangiati. Non capisci cchiù come la pensano, non capisci quello che gli sta passando per la testa. Un tempu, tantu pi fari un esempiu, su una data facenna complicata ci si ragiunava. Macari a longo, macari pi jorna e jorna, macari fino alle mali parole, alla sciarriatina, ma si ragiunava. Ora la genti non voli cchiù ragiunari, non voli pèrdiri tempu».
«E allora che fa?».
«Spara, dottore mio, spara. E a sparari semu tutti bravi, macari u cchiù fissa di la comitiva. Se lei, putacaso, ora comu ora scoccia il revorbaro che tiene nella sacchetta...».
«Non ce l'ho, non cammino armato».
«Daveru?!».
Lo sbalordimento di don Balduccio era sincero.
«Dottore mio, 'mprudenza è! Con tanti sdilinquenti ca ci sono in giro...».
«Lo so. Ma non mi piacciono le armi».
«Manco a mia piacevano. Ripigliamo il discorso. Se lei mi punta un revorbaro contro e mi dice: "Balduccio, inginocchiati", non ci sono santi. Essendo io disarmato, mi devo inginocchiari. È ragionato? Ma questo non significa che lei è un omo d'onore, significa solo che lei è, mi pirdonasse, uno strunzo con un revorbaro in mano».
«E invece come agisce un omo d'onore?».
«Non come agisce, dottore, ma come agiva. Lei viene da mia disarmato e mi parla, m'espone la quistione, mi spiega le cosi a favori e le cosi contro, e se iu in prima non sugnu d'accordu, u jornu appressu torna e ragiunamu, ragiunamu fino a quannu iu mi fazzu convintu ca l'unica è di mettermi in ginocchiu comu voli lei, nell'interessi miu e di tutti».
Fulmineo, nel ricordo del commissario s'illuminò un brano della manzoniana Colonna Infame, quando un disgraziato è portato al punto di dover pronunziare la frase «ditemi cosa volete che io dica» o qualcosa di simile. Ma non aveva gana di mettersi a discutere di Manzoni con don Balduccio.
«Mi risulta però che macari a quei tempi beati che lei mi sta contando si usava ammazzare la gente che non voleva mettersi in ginocchio».
«Certo!» fece con vivacità il vecchio. «Certo! Ma ammazzare un omo pirchì si era refutato d'obbediri, lo sapi lei che significava?». «No». «Significava una battaglia persa, significava che il coraggio di quell'omo non ci aveva lasciato altra strata. Mi spiegai?».”
― Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari
tags: mafia, onore
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“Il catafero di Japichinu sarebbe andato a finire nello sbalanco di qualche chiarchiàro... No, il nonno sapeva quanto fosse religioso il nipoteddru. L'avrebbe fatto seppellire anonimamente in terra consacrata. Dintra il tabbuto di un altro.”
― Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari
tags: humor, mafia, religion
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“Tim, playing ball with them [the Chicago mob] doesn’t mean you lost the game—it means you’re finally in the game.”
― Jennifer Samson, Piece of Work
tags: chicago, gangster, mafia, mob, sam-wyatt, tim-kelly
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“Well, they didn’t beat the smart ass out of him.”
― Jennifer Samson, Piece of Work
tags: beating, mafia, mob, smart-ass
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“Among other jobs that we did, my brother Bill and I were shoe shine boys in Jersey City and Hoboken during the World War II years. We went from tavern to tavern shining shoes for ten cents and hopefully a generous tip. The Hoboken waterfront bristled with starkly looming, grey hulled Liberty ships. Secured to the piers facing River Street, they brandished their ominous cannons towards what I thought was City Hall. An unappreciated highlight was when I shined Frank Sinatra’s shoes at a restaurant on Washington Street, just west from the Clam Broth House. There was no doubt but that Hoboken was an exciting place during those years. Years later I met Frank at Jilly's saloon, a lounge on West 52d Street in Manhattan, for a few drinks and a little fun around town. Even though I was an adult by then, he still called me “kid!”
It was obvious that Frank Sinatra enjoyed friendly relations with Mafia notables such as Carlo Gambino, “Joe Fish” Fischetti and Sam Giancana. Meyer Lansky was said to have been a friend of Sinatra’s parents in Hoboken. During this time Sinatra spoke in awe about Bugsy Siegel and was in an AP syndicated photograph, seen in many newspapers, with Tommy “Fatso” Marson, Don Carlo Gambino 'The Godfather', and Jimmy 'The Weasel, Fratianno. Little wonder that the Federal Bureau of Investigation kept their eye on Sinatra for almost 50 years.
A memo in FBI files revealed that Sinatra felt that he could be of use to them. However, it is difficult to believe that Sinatra would have become an FBI informer, better known as a “rat.”
It was in May of 1998 when Sinatra, being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles told his wife Barbara, “I’m losing.” Frank Sinatra died on May 14th at 82 years of age. It is alleged that he was buried with the wedding ring from his ex-wife, Mia Farrow, which she slid unnoticed into his suit pocket during his “viewing.”
Aside from his perceived personal and public image, Frank Sinatra’s music will shape his enduring legacy for decades to come. His 100th birthday was celebrated at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Somehow Frank will never age and his music will never fade….”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba
tags: cuban-history, frank-sinatra, mafia, world-war-ii
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“Among the organizational means that humans have used to commit aggression against each other, those recognized as governments have been by far the most harmful. However they have not been the only institutional instruments of aggression. Other institutions – churches, corporations, groups such as the mafia and the narco-cartels, etc. – have also committed aggression on a scale that exceeds the individual capacity for evil. Although they did not call themselves governments, one could say they acted governmentally. Meanwhile, though rarely, some governments have mostly left people in peace. Therefore I say that government is as government does.”
― Starchild
tags: aggression, calling-a-spade-a-spade, churches, corporations, evil, government, institutions, mafia, organizational-culture, society
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“Los Ascione y los Rossi eran algo así como los Capuleto y los
Montesco: rivales desde el día que nació cada cosca. Por eso este plan
era el doble de delicado y peligroso que los demás; si algo salía mal, ya
podíamos darnos por muertos.”
― Paquibel Sánchez Rueda, No existe el perdón
tags: cosca, intriga, mafia, novela-negra, romeo-and-juliet, romeo-y-julieta
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“—Si supieras… Si te probasen que algo es cierto. Si tú supieras que
algo es cierto y mucha gente te dijese lo contrario, incluso… si te
amenazasen de muerte. ¿Harías lo que crees que es correcto? ¿Seguirías
la verdad, como hizo Galileo, o cederías ante las amenazas?”
― Paquibel Sánchez Rueda, No existe el perdón
tags: evangeline, héctor, mafia, mario
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“In Havana, Vito Genovese, the patriarch of the Genovese family, met with Luciano in his room at the luxurious Hotel Nacional. Genovese informed him that the United States government knew where he was and was applying pressure on the Cuban Government to deport him. It was with this in mind that Genovese proposed that Luciano should turn over his interests to him. Luciano flipped out and rejected Don Vito’s suggestion. Consulting with his capos “caporegimes,” Anthony “Little Augie Pisano” Carfano and Michele “Big Mike” Miranda, who was soon to become his advisor and counselor “consigliere,” they firmly believed that, here in Cuba, Luciano would be able to survive the onslaught and be able to remain in Havana. He also understood that if he remained in Cuba it would cost him, and buying his way out of this mess would only be the beginning.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba"
tags: american-history, cuban-history, mafia
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“This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow
tags: broken, crow, hell, love, mafia, trauma, triggers
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“Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, fair, free-markets, freedom, gang, government, interventionism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, protectionism, rulers, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, trade, voluntaryism
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“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: anarchy, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, criminal, evil, fascism, free-market, freedom, gang, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, statism, theft, thieves, violence, voluntaryism
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“I never realized how empty my life had really become until I had him in it. He did that to me. He said I wrecked him, but he completely destroyed me. Everything was fine when I was alone. When I didn’t have to feel or think or care about someone else. Sure I was sad and broken, but I was okay. Now, I’m anything but.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow
tags: broken-heart, crow, destroyed, love, mafia
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“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, communism, fascism, free, free-markets, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nazism, non-aggression-principle, omnipotent, politics, regime, slavery, socialism, state, statism, totalitarian, trade, voluntaryism
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“My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.”
― Lawrence W. Reed
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, democracy, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, individualism, laissez-faire, legal, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, mob-rule, non-aggression-principle, plunder, politics, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism
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“Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: anarchist, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, gang, government, individual, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, non-aggression-principle, politics, principle, rights, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule of tyrants and authoritarians. The ideas of Liberty are very new when you consider the big picture. By contrast, various forms of socialism and fascism have been adopted over and over again. Be wary of those who try to present these old and tired ideas as something new and exciting. Liberty and free markets are the way forward if we truly desire peace and prosperity.”
― Ron Paul
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, communism, fascism, free, free-market, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism, war
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“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”
― Robert Higgs
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, contracts, economics, evil, force, free, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, law, libertarian, liberty, mafia, market, markets, non-aggression-principle, statism, taxation, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“I thought I told you I don’t play by the rules,” I argue.
“Ye’re mistaken,” he says. “Ye just walked into my world unbidden. So you will play by the rules, butterfly. You’ll be playing by all my rules.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow
tags: crow, love, mafia, rules
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“Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.”
― Jeffrey Tucker
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, business, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communication, company, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, free-market, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, parasites, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, violence, voluntaryism
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“Actually, in its essence, democracy is a totalitarian ideology, though not as extreme as Nazism, fascism or communism. In principle, no freedom is safe in a democracy, every aspect of the individual's life is potentially subject to government control. At the end of the day, the minority is completely at the mercy of the whims of the majority. Even if a democracy has a constitution limiting the powers of the government, this constitution too can be amended by the majority. The only fundamental right you have in a democracy, besides running for office, is the right to vote for a political party. With that solitary vote you hand over your independence and your freedom to the will of the majority.”
― Frank Karsten, Beyond Democracy: Why democracy does not lead to solidarity, prosperity and liberty but to social conflict, runaway spending and a tyrannical government
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, communism, free-society, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, mob-rule, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, society, thugs, violence, voluntaryism, war
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“There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.”
― Albert Jay Nock
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, communism, democracy, free, free-market, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, trade
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“This is everything I thought I didn't want. Or didn't need. But I'm here now and it's everything I need and the only thing I want.”
― Tamara Lush, Hot Shade
tags: florida, love, mafia, romance, romance-novels
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“What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
tags: grudges, grudges-against-people, mafia, reason, the-godfather, vendetta
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“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force by the government, or with the sanction of the government. Monopoly exists insofar as the freedom of competition is violated, with the freedom of competition being understood as the absence of the initiation of physical force as the preventive of competition. Where there is no initiation of physical force to violate the freedom of competition, there is no monopoly. The freedom of competition is violated only insofar as individuals are excluded from markets or parts of markets by means of the initiation of physical force. Monopoly is thus a market or part of a market reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force. It is thus something imposed upon the market from without—by the government. (Private individuals—gangsters—can initiate force to reserve markets only if the government allows it and thereby sanctions it.)
Thus, monopoly is not something which emerges from the normal operation of the economic system, and which the government must control.”
― George Reisman
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, crapitalism, crony, economics, evil, free, freedom, human, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, rights, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, trade, violation, voluntaryism
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“What I want you to understand is that when I heard your words, it was as if every single second we had spent together up to that point was a lie. Every word, every touch, every kiss. You were looking at me, but you wanted him. I was this…thing to be endured to keep your family safe. You would allow me to touch you, to make love to you all the while wishing for Colin. I thought all that passion we had between us was a complete figment of my imagination and it was a bitter pill to swallow. I hated you. Worse than I’d ever hated anyone in my life. I was determined to make you pay. I’d keep you shackled to me forever as punishment. Keep you away from your true love.” Bree stared at him, unable to fathom such cruelty. Who was this man she loved that was capable of such a thing? “And then?” He took a deep shaky breath and leaned against the edge of the desk, crossing his arms over his chest. “Then I spent all my energy trying to prove to myself by looking at you that you were lying to me, to justify what I was doing by picking up little gestures or flickers in your eyes that would prove to me that you felt nothing for me.” Bree rolled her eyes and gave a tearful snort. “And did you, after how hard I fought for you, did you get what you wanted? Did you prove to yourself what a lying bitch I am?” “No. Of course not. So I started to doubt what I heard.” “After living with Bernardo for all your life it had just occurred to you that he just may have tampered with the fucking thing?” Bree bit out, furiously.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Miles Watson, Cage Life
tags: crime, criminal-minds, hustlers-ambition, mafia
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“The Mafia’s involvement with gay bars is ironic on so many levels. Macho guys ruled gangland but supported a subculture for nelly queens. Most mobsters were evil sociopaths motivated only by financial self-interest but nevertheless were doing a good thing in providing social spaces for the gay community. The mob was on the wrong side of the liquor laws by serving gay folk but on the right side of the 14th Amendment in arguing for equal protection. The Mafia exploited an oppressed community but advanced the gay cause.”
― Phillip Crawford Jr., The Mafia and the Gays
tags: gay, gay-rights, mafia
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“Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.”
― Mario Puzo
tags: dogs, funny, mafia, omerta
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“Darling!” Alessandro exclaimed with a cold sneer as a police guard led him into a holding cell. “What are you doing here? Did you come to tell me that the crazy fog has lifted and you’re ready to resume your place by my side?” “Not in this lifetime. That nut house is not my home, and you really are crazy if you think I’m going anywhere with you.” Alessandro’s eyes flickered dangerously. “Careful, sweetheart. You are still my wife. Let’s not forget that, eh?” Bree shook her head. “You are unbelievable. Do you feel any remorse at all for what you did?” Alessandro clenched his jaw. “I believe I expressed my remorse quite thoroughly if you recall. I begged you to forgive me and I beg for nothing, Brianna. I laid myself bare and pleaded for you to understand but all you had for me were hateful words.” “Oh, was I supposed to believe that little performance?” Bree snapped, forcing herself to block out the image of his hands cupping her face, his tears mingling with her own. “It’s hard to know because I believed you when you looked me in the eye and told me you had nothing to do with what happened to Colin.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Have you thought about what will happen when you start living the life that's right for you, instead of the one you promised to live for someone else?”
― Tamara Lush
tags: florida, mafia, romance, romance-novels, romantic-suspense
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“Hello, darling,” Alessandro smiled at her. Oh, that smile. Bree wanted to close her eyes, press her hands against her eyes and keep them shut forever so she wouldn’t see that smile. She must have had the question on her face, the knowledge on her face because as she looked at him now, something flickered in his eyes. Guilt. Oh God. “Mommy, look. I make good bouncies. See?” Will said, dribbling the ball. “I gonna be a basset ball player when I gwoed up.” The little boy’s voice sounded far away as Bree narrowed in on Alessandro and the look in his eyes. “Brian. I want you and Vanessa to take Will and Gianni out for a little while.” “Oh but we’re having a good time out here, aren’t we Gianni?” Alessandro asked, tickling Gianni who squealed and curled inward. “Now,” Bree said, her voice tight. Will stopped bouncing the ball and held it against his chest looking at both of them, picking up on the angry tension that suddenly covered them all. “Uh oh. I tink mommy’s mad.” “I’m not leaving you alone in your condition, Bree. Alessandro, we just came from the hospital. Colin’s awake,” Brian informed him, his voice tight with anger. “You spoke to Colin?” Alessandro asked, meeting Bree’s eyes. “I did. And Carrie.” He looks like a cornered animal. And what do Dardanos do when they’re cornered? They lie. They cheat. Oh God. “Fine, then can you just take the boys upstairs?” Bree said, speaking to Brian, but not moving her gaze from her husband. “Come on, guys. Let’s go play upstairs for a while,” Vanessa said walking past Bree and taking Gianni from Alessandro’s lap.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Bree blinked her tears back and shook her head. “Wow. Then I guess you really are your father’s son, huh?” “You have no idea,” Alessandro snapped before leaving. Part of her wanted to run after him but a stronger part of her knew he wouldn’t listen to anything she had to say while the red haze was still burning inside of him. He wanted a fight. She’d give him one”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Bree grit her teeth and lunged for him but Brian held her back and Will spoke up instead. “You go away!” Will cried back angrily. “I know you did sumting dat made my mommy mad at my daddy. Is you fault!” “I suggest you put a muzzle on your brat and get back in the living room,” Bernardo ordered. “Careful, Father. This is none of your concern,” Alessandro said. “Are you kidding me?” Bree asked. “Of course this is his concern because he’s the only one you give a damn about. You’ll do anything for him. Absolutely anything even if it means betraying me or Will or God forbid Gianni.” “That is not true. I would never—” “It is true!” Bree yelled. “Everything you’ve done has proven that.” “Look, every marriage has problems and that is no reason to turn back on the vows you made to each other,” Bernardo pointed out. “You made a promise to honor the terms of the O'Reiley/Dardano vendetta. Be careful before you renege on those vows, Mrs. Dardano.” “You and your stupid vendetta!” Bree hissed. “Begun by a man who couldn’t handle the fact that he couldn’t have what he wanted! God it must be genetic. Well, I guess I shouldn’t blame you, Alessandro. Knowing Bernardo and Adriano, at least you come by it honestly.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“It was while he was fixing the footage Max had given him that the doubts about the disc Bernardo had played for him began to
plague him with ever growing strength. Alessandro couldn’t contemplate his father doing something so cruel but…Bernardo would certainly know how. Hell, Bernardo had taught him how to fiddle with electronics when he was still a teenager. And he wanted Alessandro under his control, under his roof. Knowing that Alessandro was trying to keep his family together and that entailed moving into their own house, out from the Dardano mansion, would Bernardo try to turn him with false information?”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Di mafia non si parlava mai allora, tutti sapevano che esisteva una forza maligna capace di imporre la sua volontà col coltello e col fucile. Ma chi stringesse quel coltello e chi imbracciasse quel fucile era difficile dirlo. D'altronde, per chi lo sapeva, era meglio fare finta di non averlo mai saputo. I maggiorenti del paese, signori che giravano per i marciapiedi in giacca di pigiama col cappello a larghe falde in testa, negavano che esistesse questa mafia. E quando pronunciavano la parola, piegavano le labbra in giù, come per sputare. Portavano le mani all'aria e dicevano ridacchiando: favole sunnu… roba per turisti… E con questo il paese si richiudeva nella sua vita quotidiana, fatta di soprusi, di sofferenze, di torti subiti in silenzio, di cose taciute e mai dette, come fosse il più felice dei paesi.”
― Dacia Maraini, Bagheria
tags: mafia, sicily
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“Già:cos'è la mafia? [...] Bellodi raccontò la storia del medico di un carcere siciliano che si era messo in testa,giustamente, di togliere ai detenuti mafiosi il privilegio di risiedere in infermeria: c'erano nel carcere molti malati, ed alcuni addirittura tubercolotici che stavano nelle celle e nelle camerate comuni; mentre i caporioni, sanissimi, occupavano l'infermeria per godere di un trattamento migliore. Il medico ordinò che tornassero ai reparti comuni, e che i malati venissero in infermeria.Nè gli agenti nè il direttore diedero seguito alla disposizione del medico, e così scrisse al ministero. Una notte fu chiamato dal carcere,gli dissero che un detenuto aveva urgente bisogno del medico. Il medico andò, a un certo punto si trovò solo in mezzo ai detenuti: i caporioni lo picchiarono,accuratamente,con giudizio.Le guardie non si accorsero di niente.[...] si rivolse ai compagni di partito per avere appoggio:gli risposero che era meglio lasciar correre. Si rivolse allora a un capomafia:che gli desse la soddisfazione almeno di far picchiare uno di coloro che lo avevano picchiato.
Ebbe poi assicurazione che il colpevole era stato picchiato a dovere.”
― Sciascia, Leonardo
tags: ilgiornodellacivetta, mafia
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“Secondo me, ogni volta che si scrive un articolo si racconta la storia di uno di loro, secondo me bisognerebbe fare questa premessa: il pidocchio tal dei tali ha vissuto di merda, ha ingoiato la merda degli altri pidocchi e degli sbirri ogni giorno che il cielo l'ha mandato in terra, ha dormito in posti di merda per scappare alla merda del carcere duro, è finito in cella a spalare merda, ha finito per puzzare di merda e, ah, sì, una volta l'hanno visto guidare una macchina di lusso.
Strappo un sorriso a Mario, che però subito replica: È più complicato di così.
Certo che è più complicato di così, gli rispondo. Non mi sognerei mai di dire che Il padrino ha fatto crescere il numero dei pidocchi, forse quello dei turisti, ma non quello dei pidocchi. Però se la si smettesse di far sembrare i pidocchi sempre dei fichi, forse male non farebbe. Voglio dire, pure i Sopranos, belli, per carità, e di Toni si sente anche un po' il profumo della merda che pesta ogni giorno, però mai una volta una cosa brutale che faccia dire Oh, gran bei coglioni questi, tutta questa vucciria per vivere così di merda.”
― Giuseppe Rizzo, Piccola guerra lampo per radere al suolo la Sicilia
tags: mafia, sicilia, vita-di-merda
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“After the Stonewall riots the gay activists had their idealistic hearts in the right place but it turned out they had underestimated the realpolitik of organized crime. Indeed, as gay liberation blossomed in the wild 1970s the bars and bathhouses became increasingly lucrative enterprises, and the Mafia had no intention of abandoning a racket it had controlled for decades. The Mafia families maintained their control by exercising the proverbial carrot and stick. The wise guys seemingly embraced the gay rights movement and cut more so-called Auntie Gays into the action as their fronts, and resorted to violent threats and sometimes murder against others who refused to play ball with the crime families. There were few legitimate businessmen in gay nightlife of the 1970s.”
― Phillip Crawford Jr., The Mafia and the Gays
tags: 1970s, bars, gay-history, lgbt, mafia, nightlife, stonewall-riots
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“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”
― Ludwig von Mises
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, gangster-hero, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, nationalism, non-aggression-principle, politics, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, totalitarianism, violence, voluntaryism
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“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.”
― Lysander Spooner
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, force, free-market, freedom, gang, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, theft, violence, voluntaryism, welfare-state
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“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
― Ayn Rand
tags: austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, force, free-market, freedom, government, idiots, individualism, irrationality, keynesian, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, useful-idiots, voluntayism
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“What do you think you’re doing?” She snapped, watching Alessandro pull back the covers and pull his legs in under the blankets. “I’m going to sleep, darling. I don’t think any amorous advances would be welcome tonight seeing as you’re in a bit of a snit, so ’night, darling.” “Get out of this bed, right now or so help me, I will do something to you that will severely compromise your ability to father any more children.” “Ah, so you admit that there will be more children for us?” He gave her a small smile. Bree came up on her elbows and narrowed her eyes. “Alessandro, go back to your coffee table.” “No.” “What do you mean, no? I’m furious with you. I don’t want to sleep with you, now get out,” “Let me put it another way, Sunshine,” he reached over and tapped her nose playfully. “Not bloody hardly. I am paying for this room and that includes this bed.” “Fine. Then I’ll go somewhere else,” Bree said, kicking the blanket off of her. Alessandro reached out a long leg and hooked it around one of hers, trapping her. “If you don’t want me to tie you to this bed, you’ll stay where you are. And you know how much I’d enjoy that.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Good morning, Sunshine,” Alessandro whispered, dragging the satiny soft object across the tip of her nose. Curiosity made her open her eyes. A rose. A blue rose. “I figured a single rose was safer than a dozen considering the massacre of the last blue roses I gave you,” he smiled sheepishly. “Happy birthday, darling.” Bree blinked and tried to remember what day it was. The fifteenth apparently. She groaned and pulled the blankets back over her head. She was officially thirty today. “Come on now, up we go,” Alessandro pulled the blankets off her face and grabbed her arm, bringing her up. “For my birthday, I want sleep,” she groaned. Gianni had suffered through a painful night as another tooth was starting to come in and thus his parents had suffered as well. “Nope, we’ve got a long day ahead of us. Let’s go.” “Why?” Bree yawned. “Because thirty years ago you were born and my life as I knew it would never be the same,” Alessandro explained, nuzzling her neck.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“What did you do to make him smile?” “Ah…” Alessandro bit back a grin and cleared his throat. “I might’ve sung a song.” “Really? What song?” “As his mother, I don’t think I should repeat it for you,” Alessandro said, his cheeks and the tips of his ears pink. “Oh come on, Alessandro. The windows didn’t break so you couldn’t have done that bad a job.” “It’s not my ability that I’m referring to,” Alessandro replied. Bree narrowed her eyes. “Just what were you singing to my son? And so help me if you say anything by Sir Mix-a-lot I’ll castrate you,” “Not quite,” Alessandro said. “All right. But, remember you asked for it. Your cousin Max, taught it to me.” Bree crossed her arms over her breasts and waited.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro…we should go down-” “Oh I agree.” He smiled, mischievous brown eyes lifting to hers. “Downstairs,” she corrected. “I like my meaning better,” and with that he went down on his knees. “No!” Bree hissed even as her body was screaming YES! “Stop arguing with me, darling.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“I like that,” Bree admitted. “It’s like…it’s never too late to change.” Her eyes met his, and she hoped he understood that she meant it for him as well as for herself. She wanted Alessandro to give in to the good she knew was in him and leave the Dardano family behind.
“I forgot about that. I feel rather ashamed of it now. Because of the things I’ve done. Then I was looking at this tiny creature here, and you’re going to think I’m mad but…every time I look at him, he looks different to me. He’s the same boy, but something in him is always changing. It’s not a physical thing that I can explain to you, but it’s…like…I don’t know,” Alessandro said shrugging and lowering his head. He sat on the bed next to her and stared at the incubator. The baby’s eyes were open, staring back, blinking slowly, sleepily.
“You’re seeing him become a person. Like all the parts of him are coming together and making this tiny person’s soul. He was one person in here,” Bree pointed to her stomach. “And now he’s changing on the outside so he can be a part of the world.”
“That’s it,” Alessandro nodded. “He’s a part of the world now. My world, in a completely different way than when he was inside of you. It’s like having two sons and watching them become one as a slow minute by minute process. He’s never going to stop changing. What he thinks and feels now is not going to be what he thinks and feels tomorrow or fifty years from now.”
“It’s the same for you,” Bree said, closing her fingers over his on the bed.
“I don’t want to forget that again, Brianna. I don’t ever want to forget that I can change.”
He looked so earnest that Bree couldn’t help bringing his hand to her lips. “Then don’t.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“That girl didn’t have a moment’s peace from the day Adriano Dardano set foot in Galway and started chasing her.” Sister Brannigan said, as she led them around the convent garden. “Nice of Francesca to stay still for him to catch her then wasn’t it?” Alessandro remarked dryly. “Mmph,” the nun responded. “My grandfather loved Francesca,” Alessandro insisted. “Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead. But let’s call a spade a spade, hmm? Your grandfather was a charmer. Now perhaps he didn’t realize just how naïve our Francesca was and how besotted with him she was.” “Mmm, very generous of you,” Alessandro grumbled. “I will say that on the times he brought some food he had made with Francesca up to the convent, it was clear he had a wonderful talent in the kitchen. Now mind ye, the Italian food was a bit rich for my taste but still, rather good.” “I’m sure my grandfather’s resting easier in his grave now that the holy sister has complimented his cooking,” Alessandro whispered in Bree’s ear making, her laugh out loud and Sister Brannigan turn to her in question.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree stared at the items and the simple silver chain around her finger. Why? The question stayed with her as she paced around the inn, waiting for Alessandro and the boys. Why wouldn’t she keep Adriano’s locket around her neck. Who was in plot 777 in London and why was it important? Whose address was this? Bree wondered, staring at the slip of paper. Her curiosity was most definitely peaked.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree turned to him and gave him an uneasy nod. She had no idea if they were gonna make things better or worse, but she had to know for herself what Francesca had gone through, where she lived and why she made the decisions she had. If she could find out more about the ill-fated romance between Francesca and Adriano, maybe she and Alessandro could avoid a similar, miserable ending.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Well, no, Sister Brannigan was the one putting her name on the checks to the cemetery. Someone else was making the deposits into her personal account.” “But now that she’s gone?” “I suppose the Neapolitan benefactor will have to find someone else if he wants to remain anonymous.” Bree snorted, “For a second I thought maybe it might be Bernardo.” “Well, why not? I mean, a little bank fraud isn’t likely to keep my father up at night,” Alessandro said. “But he’s in New York,” Bree reminded him. “Geography, darling?” Alessandro asked amused. “You say that with such pride it scares me,” Bree said rolling her eyes. “I love you too,” Alessandro smiled. “But no. If he was, why let us go off on this whole journey?” “It’s Bernardo. If there’s something I’ve learned about your father it’s that the rules of logic don’t apply to him. Or any other kind of rules,” Bree added, “Maybe this is all some kind of big elaborate plan and we’re gonna go home and find out he’s been keeping Francesca and Adriano frozen in his basement in one of those sci-fi freezers that they say you can buy and use to come back to life in a hundred years.” Alessandro shook his head at her, not impressed with her sense of humour.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro watched as Luke burrowed his nose in the snow and then shook his small body. “Well, that depends on whether you want a male or a female horse.” “Mmm. I tink I want a boy horsie. Girl horsies have babies and dat’s too much trouble.” Alessandro bit back a laugh. “Male horse it is then. Let’s see. My favourite horse’s name is Abbott.” “A But?” Will asked laughing. “Abbott,” Alessandro corrected. “Chimney,” Will suddenly decided, stopping. Alessandro blinked in confusion. “I’m sorry, did you say ‘Chimney’?” “It make sense,” Will assured him. “Santa come down da chimney and he is my pesent, right? So his name be Chimney.” “I agree. Quite logical,” Alessandro nodded. “Well, dat one ting on my list. Der be more.” “Duly noted,” he said.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alex cornered her right before she was going to make an appointment at the nurse’s station to see him. “Bree, I’m going to be referring you to Carlo from now on,” Alex informed her. “I think in light of recent events it would be a conflict of interest for me to continue to be your doctor.” “Is that right?” Bree asked leaning her elbow on the counter and raising an eyebrow. “Yes, I wouldn’t feel comfortable about it considering what you did to Carrie.” “Aw, that’s nice,” Bree smiled sarcastically, staring up at his smug self-righteous face. “Nice to know this place has such moral upstanding doctors.” “Yes, so I will be referring you to him from now on,” Alex said, clenching his jaw. “Great,” Bree said, fighting not to roll her eyes. “Have a good afternoon,” he said curtly and turned to walk away. Don’t do it. Don’t do it, Bree. The evil Bree won though. “You too, Dr. Home Wrecker.” Alex’s step faltered but he didn’t turn around.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“I’m insatiable? I am?” Alessandro asked cocking an eyebrow as he ran his warm hands along the satin material covering her body. “Alessandro. You’re alive. I can touch you, look into your eyes and hear your arrogant English voice. We’re gonna spend the rest of our lives together, that’s plenty romantic for me.” Bree pressed her mouth against him. He tasted of coffee and peppermint. He nibbled slightly on her lower lip before pulling away. “Darling, that sounds lovely, but my wedding night fantasy was more along the lines of fucking you into the mattress.” Bree smacked his shoulder. “Patience, Dardano. Tonight we take things slow, the mattress fucking will come in time. Now, get on your back and let me put my hands on you and assure myself that you’re real.” Alessandro sighed but did as she ordered. “Now if you feel anything-” “I certainly hope so or we have a very big problem,” Alessandro joked. She smacked his chest. “If you feel any pain you let me know and we’ll stop.” “Says the woman who’s smacked me twice in the past five minutes,” Alessandro said, but his eyes were shining with amusement.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“She walked slowly towards him, taking in how he looked so eerily still. “Okay you,” she said, her voice choked. “We have to have a talk. I know you’re a Dardano, but a wedding reception in the ICU? Not so classy.” She lowered her head, her attempt at levity falling flat under the weight of her heartbreak. She blinked back her tears and cupped his face. “You listen to me, okay? You are not leaving me. You’re not allowed. You’re going to fight, understand? Alessandro, I will not bury another husband. Do you hear me? I refuse to grieve for you. That is not even an option because you are my life.” She kissed his forehead, the beeping of the heart monitor and the respirators the only sounds in the room. “Funny huh? I spent so much time pushing you away and here I am begging you to stay. Not just for me, but for our boys. Will’s already lost one father, don’t you leave him too. And Gianni…don’t you dare leave him nothing but stories about some man in a picture frame.” Bree took his hand, rubbing his ring finger. “Please, Alessandro. Fight. I won’t survive without you. I won’t.” She kissed his palm. “We’ve fought too hard for you to just give up when we’re finally going to be happy. Dammit Alessandro, you owe me! You owe me a life, a happy life together. So don’t you dare die on me. Don’t you leave me to deal with that son of a bitch father of yours by myself.” She covered her mouth with her free hand to stifle her sobs. She leaned down and kissed his still mouth. “I love you…I love you so much…” Her tears fell on his face as she rested her forehead against his.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“She met her father in the living room. “I'm begging you not to kill him.” Her father scowled at her. “This man is our sworn enemy. He has-” “I know who he is and I know what he's done. I also know he is Gianni's father, and in our hearts, he is Will's father. Will loves him.” “And you,” Jack snorted. She glared at her uncle. “This is not about me.” He was silent, but his disbelief was there in his eyes. Bree turned back to her father. “He did what he did on the order of his father. Even though I despise Bernardo, we all know that family is everything. It doesn't make it forgivable, but it does make it understandable. I'm begging you for Will's sake. Don't make him lose another father.” “She could be pregnant with his child,” Beth said softly, coming out of the kitchen. Bree gave a start. They hadn't been trying to conceive but it wasn't outside of the realm of possibility. She grabbed on to the lie. “I am.” Her father's mouth fell open and her uncle swore. She met her sister's gaze in gratitude. “That's right. I found out in Ireland that, yes, I'm pregnant again.” Beth gave her a tiny nod, acknowledging the lie. “Son of a…” Her father clenched his fists. “Don't leave this baby without a father, Daddy. Please.” John looked from her to her sister. “Untie the son of bitch and toss him on the street.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro burst out laughing and Bree wrapped her arms around his neck. “Don’t think about the past anymore. Let’s move forward and let’s be happy.” Alessandro cocked an eyebrow. “Is that an order, young lady?” “Yes, Sir. From this second on, you’re not allowed to think about how much we hurt each other and how stupid you were-“ “How stupid I-“ “Ah!” Bree pressed her fingers against his lips. “How stupid we both were.” “And what would the punishment be for disobeying such an order?” Alessandro asked, his fingers trailing down her back. “Oh it would be very bad,” Bree assured him playfully. “Very?” Alessandro asked, his eyes lit with amusement. “Oh yes. Brutal. Vicious even.” “Oh that does sound terrible,” Alessandro agreed. “There might even be whips,” Bree warned. “Oh dear,” Alessandro smiled.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“How could she even think what she’s thinking? Alessandro wondered silently as he watched Brianna glare pure murder at the misguided Gertie smiling up at him. Alessandro cocked an amused eyebrow and gave her a polite smile when he noticed the look on Brianna’s face. Didn’t she know that if it weren’t for all these people, Alessandro would drag her onto the bar and fuck her madly? As it was, his body had maintained its state of semi arousal for most of the morning and into this late afternoon. He was half-tempted to drag her into the nearest closet. And she was jealous. Alessandro wanted to laugh at the ridiculous notion. While he could still appreciate the beauty of young Gertie on an aesthetic level, Brianna really had ruined him for other women. If anything, the fact that she had carried his son in her body, given birth to his child, made his primal need and want of her all that more intense. Alessandro considered himself sophisticated and well-schooled in the ways of women and how to seduce them. With Brianna, he just wanted. Her strength, her heart, her passion, her courage, all coupled with a body that kept him hard as a rock for more time than was surely healthy, created the only woman he would ever love. Ever.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“She took one look at Alessandro and Bree and placed a hand on her chest. “Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Francesca, lass. Is that you?” And then she fainted. “Holy shit!” Bree rushed to the fallen nun's side, ignoring Sister McReady’s scowl of disapproval at her language. “Mommy! You killed da penguin lady!” Will cried out in surprise. Bree lightly slapped the old woman’s face and felt a rush of relief when the Mother Superior stirred. The last thing she needed on her conscience was a dead nun. The old woman’s blue eyes opened and anger filled them when her gaze shifted to Alessandro. “You. You spawn of the devil. Why don’t ye take yerself back where ye came from and leave our poor Francesca alone?” “Oh, Mother Superior, yer confused is all. Come now. On yer feet, mum,” Sister McReady said helping the old woman up. “Uh, I’m sorry. Sister. Francesca was my great aunt. My name is Bree.” “Bree? Jaysus but it’s a ridiculous resemblance it is,” the old woman panted, holding her chest. “And you?” She asked turning to Alessandro. “Of course yer not Adriano Dardano, of course but I’ll be a drunken fairy if yer not the spitting image of that demon of temptation, sent to corrupt our poor Francesca. Such a good girl she was,” Sister Brannigan murmured, tears filling her eyes. “Such a good girl.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series, trilogy
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“Bree stared down at Bernardo’s still form. The monitor was the only sound in the room apart from his deep breathing. Alessandro had gone down to the cafeteria with Will and Gianni to grab something to eat before they left for home. Bree lied and told him that she wanted to check in with Tina and her mother Roxanna for a few minutes before they left. Even unconscious, the son of a bitch was formidable and Bree felt nervous around him. “Why don’t you do everyone a favour and just die already?” Bree said. No response. Bree sneered and shook her head, turning to leave. “You could always smother me with a pillow,” a groggy voice said behind her, making her heart nearly stop. Bree whirled around wide-eyed and met Bernardo’s dark gaze. She forced herself to shrug and crossed her arms. “Do you think Alessandro would forgive you for murdering his father?” Bernardo asked. They both knew the answer to that.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree arched, trying to stretch out her muscles and Alessandro gave her a dirty look as if she was displaying herself to him on purpose. Well, maybe she was a little. Even though he blocked her from the hotel attendant’s gaze with his body in the doorway, Bree was sure to cover herself with the blanket. Alessandro turned around, pulling in the tray with him and his eyes flared hungrily as he looked down at her. “You look like a beautiful debauched angel,” he said, his voice rough with desire. “And you’re what, the demon that’s corrupted me?” Bree asked raising an eyebrow and letting the blanket fall down to her waist, baring her to him. “It’s my life’s work, you know?” Alessandro grinned, going down on to his knees and leaning over her. Bree placed a hand on his chest, halting him. “Is that coffee, I smell?” she asked. “The debauched angel is kind of hungry.” She bit her lip and smiled up at his frustrated face.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree nodded eagerly, anxious to see her friend again. “Oooh. I like that idea. Yeah. Let’s stay, Alessandro and then in the morning, we can have wine with our toast! Oh hey, that’s funny, huh. Wine, toast, get it?” Bree giggled. Oh wow. Her head was feeling really, really fuzzy. “Okay, let’s go to bed,” Alessandro said rising from the couch after he and Kevin finished discussing the plans for the vineyard in the coming year as well as the progress it had made thus far. Bree gasped. “Alessandro! We can’t have sex in someone else’s house!” Alessandro blushed and placed a hand on her back, leading her towards the stairs after wishing Hadley a good night. “It’s my house, darling,” he reminded her. “Oh well, that’s okay then, but you can’t be loud though cause that would still be rude,” Bree said, reaching down and squeezing Alessandro’s ass. Gosh, her hubby had a really nice tight ass. “Here we are,” he said, leading her into one of the mansion’s many bedrooms. “Alessandro, I hass…have…a little confestion to make,” Bree said leaning her head on his shoulder. “You do?” he asked placing her on the bed and bending down to remove her shoes. Bree lay back and stared up at the spinning ceiling. “Mmhm. I think…I’m ina...Little drunk bit.” “Really?” Alessandro asked with feigned surprise.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“A loud clang of what sounded like a tray hitting the marble kitchen floor made Bree jump and Gianni go wide eyed with apparent terror. He covered his ears and shook his head. “Bang! Bang! Bang!” He fell over and covered his head. Bree rushed over to him as he began shrieking fearfully. “Maaammaaaaaa!” “Is okay, Gianni. Just a ting falled down,” Will said patting Gianni’s back but Bree noticed her little boy’s hand was shaking. “It’s okay, sweetie. Mommy’s here. That’s okay,” she crouched down and gathered Gianni into her arms. “Bang! Mama. It bang!” he wailed into her shoulder, trembling in her arms. “It was just a loud noise. Cook just dropped something, probably a whole big plate of yucky beets. Isn’t that funny?” she said, forcing a laugh. Jesus Christ, how much more violence would her children be forced to endure? Again, Bree felt selfish for bringing her innocent babies into the Dardano world. Gianni looked up at her, picking up on her tone he gave a small watery smile. “Ucky ee “Yucky yucky beets,” Bree repeated bouncing him lightly as her heart returned to its normal rhythm in her chest. Gianni giggled and shuddered against her as the last remnants of his fear dissipated. Bree looked over at Will. “You okay, sweetie?” Will blinked and looked over at her, wide eyed and his lower lip quivered, but he set his chin like she knew he’d watched Alessandro do and nodded. “I bwave. I nod scared.” Bree smiled at him and kissed his cheek as she ran her fingers through his hair. “Wow. That is pretty brave. I know I was
scared when I first heard the noise.” “Really?” Will asked hesitantly. “Definitely,” Bree nodded. Gianni echoed the gesture. “Well, dat’s diffen. You’s a girl.” “Oh, is that so?” Bree asked setting Gianni on the blanket next to her. “So you think ’cause mommy’s a girl she’s a fraidy cat. Huh? Huh?” she asked poking him. Will curled in on himself and giggled as he tried to avoid her fingers.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Yeah, well, he’s having a hard time dealing, you know?” Bree asked uneasily. “That’s understandable. How are you coping?” he asked, reaching out and touching her arm. Gianni shifted in her arms and looked down at Colin’s hand. “It’s taking some getting used to. Let’s just say it’s a bit of a relief to take a break for a little while. I’m more worried about the kids though and this is affecting them so I’m hoping to get in to see Dr. Graham. She was a big help to Will a while back.” “Oh, yeah. I hear great things about her. You know she doesn’t just work with kids, right?” Bree narrowed her eyes but smiled in amusement. “Is that a hint?” “Not a very subtle one, I know. Hey Gianni, how you doing, huh? Wow, you’re sure getting big,” Colin remarked. “He sure is. He’s almost standing all by himself now, aren’t you, Gianni? You wanna show Colin?” Bree asked. “Nooo,” Gianni insisted, burying his face in Bree’s neck. “Oh, speaking of Mr. Cranky Pants, huh? He didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.” Gianni lifted his head and then looked down, and it was then that Bree noticed Colin still had his hand on her arm. “Dat,” Gianni said. Bree cleared her throat and took a step back, not wanting to make the movement seem like she was uncomfortable with Colin touching her.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Colin. Just the name made Alessandro’s gut burn. He knew the man wanted his wife, even if Brianna was too blind to see it. The moron had been cuckolded by the paragon of supposed virtue, his wife Carrie and now he had finally opened his eyes and seen what Alessandro had known all along. Brianna put every other woman in New York to shame. No woman could come near her beauty, her passion, her fire. Colin had tossed her aside for the angelic Carrie and now he was changing his mind. Oh no you don’t, you miserable fucker. “Her friend indeed,” Bernardo drawled, his Italian accent thick with unmistakable implication. “Dat’s da truth. He no make her cry all da time.” That was directed at Alessandro, with small dark accusatory eyes. “He nice.” Alessandro couldn’t look at those eyes without feeling a sickening pang of guilt. She’s mine! He wanted to scream. Mine! Mine! Mine! “Oh yes. Very nice. He was very nice when he held her at the cemetery and very nice when he was dancing with her at Adresca.” That made Alessandro’s head lift in surprise. “Oh yes, my boy. She’s been there, cleaning up the rubble and word is that she’s working on re-opening it. Her friend Colin has been quite helpful in that endeavour.” “I don’ like how you say dat,” Will said scowling. “Really young William, I only speak the truth,” Bernardo taunted. Alessandro’s mind was racing. NO! Not Colin. He could not let that imbecile take Brianna away from him. He’d have to be eliminated somehow. Alessandro began to plot all the different ways he could ensure that Colin Neally stayed away from his wife, permanently. They all involved grisly, violent methods. He could not be allowed to win Brianna.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“He grinned at her. “Well, then I have a bit of a confession to make. Colin said some things to me and the sound of his voice irritated me so I had one of those clowns with the big red noses in the paediatric wing turn him into a balloon animal. A giraffe I’m afraid. Sad fate it was,” Alessandro joked with no sign of remorse at all.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Not…” Bree struggled for the right words. “All my life, I’ve just wanted someone to put me first. I thought Alessandro was that man. But even after everything Bernardo has done, I mean, Arturo wouldn’t have ever shot Alessandro if Bernardo hadn’t raised him to be a monster, even knowing that, Alessandro refuses to cut his ties with his father. So…yeah, I guess I do blame Alessandro for getting shot. God, that sounds so horrible.” Bree covered her face with her hands again.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“The pain of it was crippling him. He couldn’t breathe. Be a man! Be a Dardano. Alessandro felt the protective wall shoot up around his heart in one quick instant. Dardanos weren’t weak and stupid like he had been. Dardanos didn’t let their emotions blind them. Love was for fools. Love made men stupid. But oh, she would never make him stupid again. Oh, how Alessandro would make his darling wife pay.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Will, was not as taken with the photo of the new baby as the grown ups around him. “It look like Mr. Potato Head.” “I’m sure your baby sister will appreciate that,” Alessandro said with a wry grin. “A girl? It’s a girl?” Will asked with a grimace. “That’s right,” Bree announced as Vanessa and Brian congratulated them. “I can play wif Gianni but what we gonna do wif a girl?” he asked, handing the picture back to them. “Nope, send it back
and get another boy dis time.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.”
― Robert Higgs
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, evil, freedom, gang, government, individualism, knowledge, libertarian, liberty, mafia, matrix, philosophy, politics, rationality, reason, self-knowledge, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, truth, useful-idiots, voluntaryism, voting
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“When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.”
― Frank Chodorov
tags: aggression, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, statism, taxation, theft, voluntaryism
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“His eyes widened. “Pain? Darling, you haven’t yet experienced the pain I can inflict when I’ve been played for a fool. I’m in awe at your gall to try and fool me.”
Bree went still as panic froze her. Oh, God. No.
“Ah, the light bulb finally goes off,” he purred against her face; his voice low and
cold.
Even knowing who he was, and the family he came from, Bree could say that deep inside, she’d never felt any real fear of him.
She did now. He knew. The look on his face told her he knew that she had lied about him being her baby’s father. Frantically, she grasped for any foothold she could find. “I don’t know what you’re talking-“
“DON’T!” he snapped, grabbing the sides of her face.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“He’s lying to me, Bree thought. I don’t know how I know, but I do. And really, wasn’t it better if she didn’t know for sure? Bree moved closer to him and pressed her mouth to his, inhaling the strong, musky scent that seemed to be his alone. Like a mix of spiced wine, dark chocolate and warm leather. Bree eased her tongue in and ran it across his teeth as his fingers moved up her spine to cup her head and bring her closer.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-male, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Mmm,” Bree licked the ice cream scoop and tossed it into the sink. “Let’s just say that for the sake of the baby, Alessandro and I have reached a sort of…an...agreement, I guess.”
“Does that mean I can’t punch him anymore? ‘Cause that was fun.”
“Yes. It does. Sorry.”
“So are you two…”
“No. Hell no. Not after him using Rebecca Malford as a scratching post,” Bree grumbled, her stomach clenching tight at that little reminder.
“He’s what? Alessandro and that...viper?”
“That’s right.” Bree clenched her teeth.
“Rebecca and Alessandro? Oh my God. Mental bleach! I need mental bleach!” Meggie rubbed her temples.
“Yeah, keep doing that for another week and you might be where I am right about
now.”
“Oh, he’s a smooth one, that’s for sure,” Meggie said with a sudden smile.
“What’s with that look?”
“You’re so jealous,”
Bree snorted, turning away from her and taking a seat opposite of Will. “That’s ridiculous.”
“And so true.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, mafia, mob-romance, series, trilogy
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“You will never have to worry about safety. Being a Dardano will buy you all the security you’ll ever need.”
Bree shook her head and threw her hands up. “Being a Dardano will put the bulls eye on my back, you asshole,”
“Really, darling, once you become Mrs. Dardano, we’re going to have to work on cleaning up that saucy mouth of yours. At least in public,” Alessandro purred, tapping her nose.
Bree saw red. But she smiled at him. She took the plate from him and set it down on the vanity table. Then she took the vitamin shake, pulled out the waistband of his pants and poured it down inside.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Okay, someone’s been smoking the wacky tobacky. And keep your hands to yourself!” She smacked at his roving fingers, fighting the shivers following his touch. "I agreed to let you accompany me because, well...maybe you're right. We should try and put the animosity between our families-stop that!" She gripped his fingers and tried to twist them, but he easily pulled out of her grip.
Alessandro laughed. “Darling, I haven’t laughed in ages like I do when I’m with you. I propose a clean slate, eh?” He sighed and sat back against the seat. “Brianna. I’m not going to give up until you are mine. You could make this so much easier if you just accept the inevitable.” He lifted his hand to cup the side of her face. “We belong to each other, and you know it.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Last night, Bree had been taken. Thoroughly, utterly taken. Gently or roughly, it didn’t matter. This man had reached into the darkest part of her mind, had brought out and laid bare the desires she admitted to no one but herself in her most secret, quiet moments. Her hunger had been allowed to run free. There’d been no guilt, no remorse. Nothing was ‘wrong’. And God, the feeling of freedom was damned addictive. What did that say about her? How could she love Michael, yet give a part of her she’d never felt comfortable sharing with Michael to this stranger.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“He took a step back and stared down at her, and she watched the cold mask slowly slip back over his face. “So…that’s it? You just decide I’m not good enough to be with and-“
“Oh, Alessandro no! You know that’s not-“
“Well, let me tell you something, if you think you’re going to keep me away from my baby-“
“No,” Bree promised. “You can see him anytime you want…at my apartment.”
He laughed bitterly and sniffled. “You know something ironic, Brianna? You’re probably the only woman who could have turned me into that man that you deem worthy of your love,” Alessandro walked towards the door and opened it.
“Daddy?” a small voice called out.
Both Alessandro and Bree turned to Will wearing identically stunned expressions.
“Can you stay wif me ‘till I go sleep ‘gain?”
Alessandro choked on a sob and left the room, slamming the door behind him.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“His scowl deepened. “If he wanted to hurt Will, he could have easily come here when I was at work, but no, he respected your feelings, and he allowed us to come together in our own time.”
“As opposed to what? Dragging me up by my hair to the altar?” Bree asked.
“Well that was his suggestion. I suggested a more diplomatic approach.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Alessandro gathered her into his arms and flipped her over so that she was on top of him, her blonde hair falling over him like a gold curtain. The strands tickled his face as she righted herself over him. She caught her lower lip between her teeth as he pushed up inside of her, and Alessandro reached up, bringing her mouth down, wanting to taste that swollen lip. Her breath wafted over his face, and he grabbed her hips, pulling her down as he pushed up deeper, wanting to fill her to her very soul.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Father, perhaps you’ve forgotten the fact that when my child was conceived, neither Bree nor I knew who the other person was.”
“Ai, ai, ai… Alessandro, open your mind, please! It was fate, my boy.”
“Oh, good God, here we go again,” Arturo threw his hands up.
“Don’t you have a puppy to go kick?” Alessandro asked, his brother’s voice grating on his already stretched nerves.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro shrugged and pushed the blade in, dragging it down the man’s skin, making him cry out. He struck him again with his fist, blood spurting onto Alessandro as well. “Did Arturo tell you that the mother of my child was in that limo? She’s carrying my baby inside of her, and that her son was in the limo too? I’m sure he did. I’m sure he left explicit instructions as to who exactly you were supposed to dispose of, didn’t he?”
“He’ll kill me. I swear, he’ll kill me,” the man cried, tears mixing in with his
blood.
“Next, I’ll take an eye, you snivelling little shit!” Alessandro growled, raising his bloody blade to the man’s left eyeball. The unmistakable scent of urine filled the air.
Alessandro stepped back in disgust and turned to Jason and his other man, Marty, two of the best Dardano soldiers, loyal and efficient. They took his cue and slipped on their brass knuckles.
“Just say the words, ol’ boy, and we’ll stop this,”
“Fuck you,” the man shouted.
Alessandro smirked. “Such defiance for a man who just pissed himself.” He crossed his arms as Marty and Jason went to work.
It only took a minute. “All right. Okay! Stop! Stop! Fine, I’ll talk!”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“I understand Mrs. Donovan is a free woman, Mr. Dardano. It’s all for a good cause after all, isn’t it?”
“Fifty thousand dollars,” Alessandro countered, deadly calm though inside he was fairly trembling with rage.
“One hundred thousand dollars,” Hadley countered, getting to his feet, appearing to enjoy the spectacle of all eyes being on the two of them now.
Alessandro stood, his fists clenched tight at his sides. “Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,”
Bree was staring at them both, her mouth open.
Kevin smiled at him. “Three hundred thousand dollars,”
“One million dollars,” Alessandro shot back, his eyes clouding with rage. So help him, if the son of a bitch opened his mouth, Alessandro was gonna shove his fist down his throat.
The entire ballroom was dead silent. Holding its breath.
“Uh…Going once?” Alex announced.
Kevin met Alessandro’s gaze, smirking.
“Going twice?”
Kevin lifted his hands in surrender. “The best man won. I hope you get more than a dance, my friend,”
“Sold,” Alex announced, slamming the little gavel down.
Alessandro felt a rush of both victory and relief as he stared at Brianna. He walked up to her and extended his hand. “Darling?”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Mommy, how come Dona Duck don have no pants?” Will sat on the couch eating cookies. Bree looked up. Then she glanced at the Donald Duck cartoon on the TV. “He have top but he no have bottoms,”
“Good point,” she said. And yet the duck always wore a towel after he showered.
“Dat’s odd,” Will remarked. He leaned over his plate and began to split his cookies into two piles. “And where his pee pee go? He a boy right, mommy? But he don’ have no pee pee. How he go to bafroom?”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“They stared at each other, and Alessandro seriously considered turning away from his father’s wishes and just taking this woman and running off somewhere with her. He could imagine being happy with her. He felt free, easy. The feeling was heady. But dangerously so. He could never just toss aside his father’s demands that way, even if he wanted to. There would be too much at stake.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Bree rubbed her belly. Figured; Alessandro wasn’t one to live in quiet but strained tension. She stared up at the fabric of the canopy and then squeezed her eyes shut. “Alessandro, considering that the outside world has the sterile hospital rooms, not to mention the epidurals, yeah. For goodness sake, Alessandro. You know we can’t stay here forever. I’m entering my eighth month here.”
“I must say, I’m surprised you’re so anxious to leave.”
“Why?” Bree asked, turning to look at his strong profile.
“You know why, Brianna. As soon as we walk out that door, you and I are over.”
Bree felt a guilty tightening in her chest.
“Perhaps that’s what you want, though.”
“That’s not fair,” Bree whispered even as she feared he was right. No. He’s wrong. I love him. She wasn’t going to let anyone shake what she and Alessandro had built here. She’d let her family know that she wanted Alessandro in her life and that she wanted to be a family with him. “Thanks for your confidence in me, though. Really.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Bree shot to her feet and glared at him.
“Look all you want, Brianna. That was the deal, remember? Until Arturo is found, I’m not leaving you alone.”
Alessandro stared down at her with immovable stubbornness.
“How am I gonna explain you to my grandfather? And what if the rest of my family is there?”
“Hello O’Reiley family, you remember Alessandro, the father of my child, the man that I love, the light of my life, ma raison d'être…”
“Are you done?” Bree asked cocking an eyebrow.
“Depends, are you quite ready to go? Look, you can explain that I’m there for answers too. My father’s involvement in this vendetta directly influences my own future and that of my child.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.”
― Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill
tags: banks, corruption, government, mafia
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“Mmmmmnobaconeggsgottagostore…” She slowly ran her hand down his forearm and gave him a sleepy smile as she sat up. Her eyes remained closed as she rested her hand on his shoulder and before he could realize her intention or even remember his manners and stop her, her mouth was on his in a kiss that was so soft and sweet Alessandro could do nothing but fall into it with her.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, romance, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro! Will!!” He could hear Brianna’s voice a few seconds before his head came up through to the next floor.
Stubborn, bloody woman! he cursed.
“Oh God, Will!” Bree screamed. “What happened?” She rushed towards them, coughing as she grabbed for her son. He shifted his weight to hand him over to her, but the movement sent another bolt of screaming pain from his ankle up to his leg and Alessandro lost his footing, falling back into the basement.
Alessandro!” Bree screamed, and then he heard no more.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“That’s our clue. I know where he is now.” Alessandro said, pulling her away from the dead fish.
“A dead fish means…what? The docks?” Bree asked.
Alessandro gave her a small smile. “You’re as smart as you are exquisite, my darling.”
“I’m sorry. A crazy man has my son. Could we get a move on now?” Bree pushed him towards the door.
“Forgive me, darling. Old habits.”
Bree rolled her eyes, but she was grateful for the brief, light moment. It allowed her to regroup and focus, to lift her head from the haze of panic that gripped her thus far.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“My, my, and you accuse the Dardanos of trying to run the world. As you so succinctly put it, you have no desire to be a part of my life, which means you have no say in where I choose to live, sunshine. I, on the other hand, made no such declaration.”
“God, I hate you,” Bree seethed.
Alessandro smiled and tapped the end of her nose playfully, resisting the urge to tear her thick coat off of her and take her right against the wall. “You keep telling yourself that, love. We both know better.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree crossed her arms over her protruding belly. “I’m fine. No one has shot at me in the last twenty four hours, and my family is talking to me again. Things are looking up.”
He grimaced at the mention of her family. “How fortunate for you.”
Bree narrowed her eyes at him, picking up on the derogatory tone. “Well, you should know all about the importance of family. You’d do anything for yours, right? Bernardo says jump, you ask ‘how high?’ “
Alessandro felt a sick twist of guilt in his chest, “Well, congratulations, Brianna. You’ve worked very hard for the title of O’Reiley doormat. I hope it’s all you’ve ever wanted. I hope you’re happy.”
“Blissfully,” Bree shot back and turned on her heel, leaving him there filled with anger and regret.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“I know. You’re a male escort, and you were on your way to your latest…what are female clients called? Not Johns…Jean’s?”
He choked on his cracker, and Bree reached over and patted his back until his coughing fit passed. “Afraid not, darling.” He wheezed.
“Male stripper?”
He snorted. “I don’t know if I should be flattered or insulted by that.”
“Some kind of business tycoon, right?” Bree asked. “A pretty Donald Trump?”
“Pretty? Oh dear.”
Bree raised her hands. “Handsome. Handsome. Better?”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“She realized he wasn’t listening to music and gave him a curious look of amusement as she picked up the cover to an audio book. ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting.’
God forgive me, I love this man.
“Thought I should be informed, you know?” Alessandro explained sheepishly.
Bree tried to tear her gaze away from his gleaming chest.
“Plus all the lactating and dilating and placenta talk does wonders to crush any man’s libido.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“We have nothing!” Bree reached out and slapped him with all her might. He couldn’t know the baby she carried was his. Not ever.
Alessandro’s dark eyes flashed angrily at her for a split second, making Bree’s insides tense in anticipation of his rage, but then he smiled at her, his hand going to her thigh. “Well, I was hoping we’d get to know each other a little better before delving into S & M, but I’m game if you are, sunshine.”
“I want you to get out,”
“And I want you naked screaming my name, now that you know it,” Alessandro growled, leaning in so that his breath brushed across her face in a tantalizing caress.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Lies. All lies. Bree was shaking so hard she bit her tongue, but she didn’t even feel the blood in her mouth.
Kill her husband and seduce the widow. She thought she’d never felt as angry as when Michael died, but this, oh God, her entire body was a live wire of rage. She was so
furious, she was almost numb. So numb that she didn’t even feel herself reaching for the gun she had pulled out of the glove compartment and pocketed.
So numb that she didn’t feel herself lift the gun and aim.
So numb that she saw nothing, but his eyes, staring back at her in wide eyed surprise and confusion.
She felt so numb she didn’t even feel herself pull the trigger.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“He lowered his head and shook it from side to side, giving her a rueful smile. “I find it so ironic that someone I think of as sometimes so brave to the point of stupidity could be so terrified of her own happiness,”
Bree felt the shot hit home, and she couldn’t look at him. She ran her finger along the marble topped of the island. “That’s ridiculous. Who in their right mind is afraid of being happy?”
“Someone who has lost too much,” he moved slowly towards her in gentle careful strides as if he was afraid of startling her.
Fair enough, she did tend to attack him when he tried to corner her, but for some reason, Bree just couldn’t tonight. The much too relaxing bubble bath must be making her sluggish.
“Someone who is so used to being told she caused too much pain to others to ever be worthy of happiness herself,”
Bree closed her eyes. “Shut up. Please, Alessandro.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.”
― Patricia Bellomo, The Prince of Mafia Princes
tags: crime-thriller, mafia, mafia-fiction, organized-crime
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“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”
― Rose Wilder Lane
tags: anarchy, ancap, fascism, freedom, individualism, libertarian, liberty, mafia, philosophy, politics, state, statism, taxation, theft, tyranny, voluntaryism
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“What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as private firms seeking to please consumers in a competitive market. Instead, they are born in conquest and nourished by plunder. They are, in short, well-armed gangs intent on organized crime. Yes, rulers have sometimes come to recognize the prudence of protecting the herd they are milking and even of improving its ‘infrastructure’ until the day they decide to slaughter the young bulls, but the idea that government officials seek to promote my interests or yours is little more than propaganda—unless, of course, you happen to belong to the class of privileged tax eaters who give significant support to the government and therefore receive in return a share of the loot.”
― Robert Higgs
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, communism, fascism, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, theft, voluntaryism
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“She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my queen.”
― J.J. McAvoy, Ruthless People
tags: king, mafia, queen, ruler
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“Everything I do is for her, for Fallon.”
― Soraya Naomi, For Fallon
tags: intense, mafia, romantic-suspense
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“In the end… he would choose Campisi.
In the end… she would choose Abandonato.
In the end… there would be bloodshed.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Elicit
tags: blood, bloodlines, eagle, elicit, elite, fight, mafia, mafia-princess
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“When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.”
― Jeffrey Tucker
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, commerce, free-markets, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.”
― Russell Baker
tags: corruption, crime, criminal, criminals, humor, hypocrisy, immoral, immorality, mafia, moral, morality, organized-crime, politicians, politics, religion
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“Seth swallowed and all sorts of cramps ran through his stomach. He’d call them ‘butterflies’, but with Dom they were moths at best. Just as lively, but uncomfortable in daylight, creatures of the night, like Seth’s lust for Dom.”
― K.A. Merikan, Guns n' Boys: Book 1, Part 1
tags: gay-romance, mafia
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“Thomas,” the boss said. “How’s your father doing?” “He’s good, Sal.” Always the family questions first. That was Sal Demenci’s style. He could be about to whack someone and he’d ask how the guy’s sister was doing in school.”
― Gary Ponzo, A Touch of Deceit
tags: funny, mafia, manners, mobster
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“There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, association, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, communism, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, voluntaryism
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“The very term ‘public utility’ … is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good … may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, force, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, socialized, state, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism
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“The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.”
― Jeffrey Tucker
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, collectivism, free-market, freedom, gang, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, subjugation, taxation, theft, thieves, violence, voluntaryism
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“Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.”
― Angelika Rust, Once A Rat
tags: fantasy, fiction, mafia, novel, suspense, thieves
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“Some people did business with me because they wanted to get close to me, others did business with me because they were afraid to say no.”
― Larry Formato, Connected
tags: mafia, mob, stock-market, stocks
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“She moved to get up, but the man held her down as her car exploded next.
Bree lifted her head and looked back at the wall of fire behind them. “Well. We’re well and truly screwed now.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-male-romance, erotic-romance, gangster, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Tell him, Cosa Nostra says, HELLAO!”
― Waheed Ibne Musa, Johnny Fracture
tags: italian-mafia, mafia, mafia-mob, mobsters
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“perfection is archieved , not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”
― Carlo Gambino
tags: mafia
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“Comme l'impôt est obligatoire pour tous, qu'ils votent ou non, une large proportion de ceux qui votent le font sans aucun doute pour éviter que leur propre argent ne soit utilisé contre eux; alors que, en fait, ils se fussent volontiers abstenus de voter, si par là ils avaient pu échapper ne serait-ce qu'à l'impôt, sans parler de toutes les autres usurpations et tyrannies du gouvernement. Prendre le bien d'un homme sans son accord, puis conclure à son consentement parce qu'il tente, en votant, d'empêcher que son bien ne soit utilisé pour lui faire tort, voilà une preuve bien insuffisante de son consentement à soutenir la Constitution. Ce n'est en réalité aucunement une preuve.
Puisque tous les hommes qui soutiennent la Constitution en votant (pour autant qu'il existe de tels hommes) le font secrètement (par scrutin secret), et de manière à éviter toute responsabilité personnelle pour l'action de leurs agents ou représentants, on ne saurait dire en droit ou en raison qu'il existe un seul homme qui soutienne la Constitution en votant.
Puisque tout vote est secret (par scrutin secret), et puisque tout gouvernement secret est par nécessité une association secrète de voleurs, tyrans et assassins, le fait général que notre gouvernement, dans la pratique, opère par le moyen d'un tel vote prouve seulement qu'il y a parmi nous une association secrète de voleurs, tyrans et assassins, dont le but est de voler, asservir et -- s'il le faut pour accomplir leurs desseins -- assassiner le reste de la population. Le simple fait qu'une telle association existe ne prouve en rien que "le peuple des Etats-Unis", ni aucun individu parmi ce peuple, soutienne volontairement la Constitution.
Les partisans visibles de la Constitution, comme les partisans visibles de la plupart des autres gouvernements, se rangent dans trois catégories, à savoir: 1. Les scélérats, classe nombreuse et active; le gouvernement est pour eux un instrument qu'ils utiliseront pour s'agrandir ou s'enrichir; 2. Les dupes -- vaste catégorie, sans nul doute, dont chaque membre, parce qu'on lui attribue une voix sur des millions pour décider ce qu'il peut faire de sa personne et de ses biens, et parce qu'on l'autorise à avoir, pour voler, asservir et assassiner autrui, cette même voix que d'autres ont pour le voler, l'asservir et l'assassiner, est assez sot pour imaginer qu'il est "un homme libre", un "souverain"; assez sot pour imaginer que ce gouvernement est "un gouvernement libre", "un gouvernement de l'égalité des droits", "le meilleur gouvernement qu'il y ait sur terre", et autres absurdités de ce genre; 3. Une catégorie qui a quelque intelligence des vices du gouvernement, mais qui ou bien ne sait comment s'en débarrasser, ou bien ne choisit pas de sacrifier ses intérêts privés au point de se dévouer sérieusement et gravement à la tâche de promouvoir un changement.
Le fait est que le gouvernement, comme un bandit de grand chemin, dit à un individu: "La bourse ou la vie." Quantité de taxes, ou même la plupart, sont payées sous la contrainte d'une telle menace.”
― Lysander Spooner, Outrage À Chefs D'état ;Suivi De Le Droit Naturel
tags: anarchisme, anarchy, gouvernement, libertaire, libertarian, libertarien, liberté, mafia, philosophie, statism, theft, thugs, vol, voleurs, état
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“N'importe quel groupe de scélérats, pourvu qu’ils aient assez d'argent pour l'entreprendre, peuvent décider qu'ils sont un gouvernement; car, pourvu qu'ils aient de l'argent, ils peuvent engager des soldats, et utiliser ces soldats pour extorquer davantage d'argent, et ainsi contraindre tout le monde à obéir à leurs volontés.”
― Lysander Spooner, Outrage À Chefs D'état ;Suivi De Le Droit Naturel
tags: anarchisme, anarchiste, etat, freedom, french, gouvernenemt, impots, libertarian, libertarien, liberty, liberté, mafia, taxation, theft, thugs, vol
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“Le fait est que le gouvernement, comme un bandit de grand chemin, dit à un individu: "La bourse ou la vie." Quantité de taxes, ou même la plupart, sont payées sous la contrainte d'une telle menace.”
― Lysander Spooner, Outrage À Chefs D'état ;Suivi De Le Droit Naturel
tags: anarchisme, anarchy, gouvernement, impots, libertaire, libertarian, libertarien, mafia, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, vol, voleurs
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“Nicky turned and bolted. He’d only had about a thirty foot head start and a few were closing ground on him quickly. He cursed his hundred-dollar shoes and his vanity. The shoes looked great, but were definitely not made for running, nor was the suit he was wearing. He vowed that if he made it out of there alive, he’d only wear sneakers and track suits for the rest of his days. "Of course, I’ll probably be laughed out of the mob, but I don’t care at this point.”
― Ian McClellan, One Undead Step
tags: gangsters, mafia, mob, moon-landing, moon-landing-conspiracy-theories, sneakers, track-suits, zombie-apocalypse, zombies
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“Chi sostiene un sistema schiavistico non si ferma mai a riflettere su come egli stesso potrebbe diventarne vittima.”
― Ludwig von Mises
tags: anarchia, anarco, anti, capitalismo, citazione, comunismo, economia, furto, governo, italian, libertà, mafia, schiavitù, scuola-austriaca, socialismo, statalismo, tassazione, volontarismo
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“Kitalifa ni utiifu kamili, woga, umbali (kwa maana ya kuwa mbali na biashara ya mamafia wengine mpaka kwa makubaliano maalumu) na nidhamu ya kutoshirikiana na mamlaka zote za serikali. Ukishtakiwa kwa kosa la madawa au ujambazi ambalo hukufanya, utatumikia kifungo mpaka mwisho bila kushirikiana na polisi (kwa maana ya kutaja aliyehusika au waliohusika na uhalifu huo) hata kama aliyehusika au waliohusika hana au hawana uhusiano wowote na Kolonia Santita. Falsafa ya Kitalifa ni Sheria ya Kitalifa ya Kiapo cha Swastika cha Kolonia Santita. Na adhabu ya kuvunja sheria hiyo ni kifo.”
― Enock Maregesi
tags: adhabu, allegiance, authority, biashara, business, case, crime, criminality, discipline, distance, falsafa, fear, government, kesi, kifungo, kitalifa, kolonia-santita, mafia, mamlaka, nidhamu, philosophy, police, polisi, punishment, sentence, serikali, uhalifu, ujambazi, umbali, woga
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“Domenico had that ‘look-at-me I’ve-got-money’ attitude about him. A proper nouveau riche. In combination with his pig-like table manners at home, it was a sight to behold.”
― K.A. Merikan, Guns n' Boys: Book 1, Part 1
tags: gay-romance, mafia
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“Cry Wolf' is a hard-boiled thriller written at break-neck pace of political corruption and organised, very violent crime.”
― Mike Ripley
tags: crime-thriller, italy, mafia, umbria
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“Seth rubbed his nose against Dom’s shoe in a silent plea. The leather was so soft. So unlike Dom’s heart.”
― K.A. Merikan, Guns n' Boys: Book 1, Part 1
tags: gay-romance, mafia
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“A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.”
― Misha Glenny, McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime
tags: caviar, crime, eastern-europe, mafia, wealth
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“You’d better be sure about this because this,” he pointed at Nora, then at Tony, “will start a war.”
― Christian Ferreti -- Mafia Princess
tags: mafia, mafia-princess, mob, romance
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“And the single action scam was dispensing cash like water gushing down Niagara Falls.”
― Joe Bruno
tags: mafia, mobsters, niagara-falls, racketeering
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“How many times do I have to tell you? We are not gangsters!”
― Peter Cimino, The Four Corners, a Sicilian Story
tags: irony, mafia
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“Vladimir leaned forward. “Never dilute vodka. Is sin.”
― Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior
tags: bar, crime, fbi, grant-madsen, mafia, mob-boss, romance, romantic-suspense, russian, the-conduct-series, undercover, vodka
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“I’m going to make you feel so good,” I swore to her, “that you’re going to not just scream my name, but forget yours.”
― Shay Savage, Uncockblockable
tags: crime, dirty-talk, evan-arden, mafia, mob, nick-wolfe, sex, sexy-humor
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“The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”
― David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
tags: communist-party, corruption, mafia, russian-politics, soviet-union
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“We assassinate. We don't accessorize. But I understand how it is possible to confuse the two.”
― Angelika Rust, A Rat for a Rat
tags: crime, fantasy, humor, mafia
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“I didn’t marry the mob; I was born into it.”
― Shay Savage, Uncockblockable
tags: crime, evan-arden, mafia, mob, nick-wolfe
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“When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station”
― James Patterson, Kill Me If You Can
tags: james-patterson, killer, mafia, russian
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“Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. “Contessa.God, Contessa.”
She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen.”
― Christie Ridgway, An Offer He Can't Refuse
tags: countessa, italian, love, mafia, queen
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“Her recoil confirmed the disgust Grant felt inside. Who was he kidding, trying to put Vladimir and Andrei behind bars? He was no different from his father. Then he remembered Sophie’s words.
“You’re not like them. You’re my McSailor.”
A soft touch made him smile, thinking of Bonnie, before he realized it was Innochka’s hand stroking his face. The touch of a mobster’s girlfriend. He leaped back, still crouched on his feet.”
― Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior
tags: bonnie-and-clyde, crime, fbi, grant-madsen, mafia, mcsailor, prison, romance, romantic-suspense, russian, sophie-taylor, the-conduct-series, undercover
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“I thought it had a very compelling opening, and after a couple of pages, I had that feeling of 'I'm in good hands,' and eager to see where this is going. I felt lots of intrigue, stakes, and conflict right from the outset, with a clear, terse writing style that drew me in right away.
--Erik Bork, Emmy Award winning screenwriter, Band of Brothers.”
― Robert Child, Blood Betrayal
tags: band-of-brothers, mafia
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“By connecting Oswald to several parts of the JFK–Almeida coup plan, those working for Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli could ensure that when Oswald surfaced as the main suspect, the CIA and other agencies would have to cover up much information to protect the coup plan—which is exactly what happened”
― Lamar Waldron, The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century
tags: conspiracy, mafia, politics
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“Are they Russian by way of the Ozarks?”
― Alexa Land, Way Off Plan
tags: hilarious, inbreeding, kissing-cousins, mafia, russian
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“I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.”
― Wendy Ely, Dangerous Flames
tags: crime, mafia, mafia-hearts, romantic-suspense
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“Okay, I’ve got the hidden microphones with GPS here,” Agent Bounter said. “Let’s get one on you.”
“Now, sir?”
“The Russians are on the radar. It’s time.”
As Bounter turned to pick up the tiny button-size microphone, Grant clenched his hands into fists, his anticipation building.
It’s time.”
― Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior
tags: crime, family-drama, fbi, grant-madsen, love, mafia, prison, romance, romantic-suspense, russian, the-conduct-series, undercover, wired
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That is an example of a message sent between two mafia men. I sent that message myself and tis a quote of me, "Elijah Don Quickwit" my chosen name from Las Vegas Nevada! I affirm I desire to deliver this website organized, polished, and perfectly to the heart. Eventually I will read all these and edit them, but tis a burden for me now and while not making this page was a burden, reading the opinions of over 200 random strangers is a burden. Love the Lord Jesus Christ the King Love Almighty God the Lord Almighty of Israel! Amen!
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“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
― John Gottman (
tags: business, crime, humor, inspirational, mafia
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
― Frédéric Bastiat
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, countries, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nations, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, thugs, voluntaryism
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“Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,
your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don
tags: don, family-values, life, mafia, rules
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“He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive”
― Mario Puzo
tags: life, love, mafia
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“Step one, accept she was a damn boss. Step two, hide all the knives, guns, and maybe the pillows, too.”
― J.J. McAvoy, Ruthless People
tags: funny, liam, love, mafia, melody, ruthless-people
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“The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
tags: crime, diplomacy, mafia
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“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
― Stefan Molyneux
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, collectivism, communism, countries, delusion, democracy, evil, fascism, freedom, government, knowledge, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nationalism, nations, nazis, patriotism, philosophy, politics, psychopath, rationality, religion, self-esteem, self-knowledge, socialism, states, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, voluntaryism
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“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, state, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism
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“A cop's JOB is to violently enforce upon the rest of us whatever arbitrary bullshit the political parasites declare to be "law." It is, therefore, impossible to be a "law enforcer" and behave morally, for the same reason one can't be a moral car-jacker.”
― Larken Rose
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, crime, evil, free, freedom, government, laissez, law, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, peace, police, politics, socialism, society, state, statism, violence, voluntaryism, war
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“I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.”
― Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., A White Man Speaks Out
tags: bibliophile, books, jail, mafia, pioneer, prison, reading, vikings
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“I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.”
― Holly Black, Red Glove
tags: choices, family, honor, life, loyalty, mafia, mob, mobster, pride, protection
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“God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals”
― Mario Puzo
tags: life, mafia, strength
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“The IRS! They're like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!”
― Jerry Seinfeld
tags: government, humor, irs, mafia
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“If the bulk of the public were really convinced of the illegitimacy of the State, if it were convinced that the State is nothing more nor less than a bandit gang writ large, then the State would soon collapse to take on no more status or breadth of existence than another Mafia gang.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, criminal, freedom, gang, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism
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“Property taxes' rank right up there with 'income taxes' in terms of immorality and destructiveness. Where 'income taxes' are simply slavery using different words, 'property taxes' are just a Mafia turf racket using different words. For the former, if you earn a living on the gang's turf, they extort you. For the latter, if you own property in their territory, they extort you. The fact that most people still imagine both to be legitimate and acceptable shows just how powerful authoritarian indoctrination is. Meanwhile, even a brief objective examination of the concepts should make anyone see the lunacy of it. 'Wait, so every time I produce anything or trade with anyone, I have to give a cut to the local crime lord??' 'Wait, so I have to keep paying every year, for the privilege of keeping the property I already finished paying for??' And not only do most people not make such obvious observations, but if they hear someone else pointing out such things, the well-trained Stockholm Syndrome slaves usually make arguments condoning their own victimization. Thus is the power of the mind control that comes from repeated exposure to BS political mythology and propaganda.”
― Larken Rose
tags: anarchy, ancap, brainwashing, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, force, free, free-market, freedom, government, indoctrination, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, media, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, propaganda, public, public-education, school, schooling, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“There were a lot of terms you had to learn, as opposed to the shylock business where all you had to know how to say was 'Give me the fuckin money.”
― Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty
tags: film-industry, humor, idiom, mafia, mob, movie-business
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“I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.”
― William Balsamo, Crime Incorporated: The Inside Story of the Mafia's First 100 Years
tags: crime, mafia
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“In particular, the State has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly over police and military services, the provision of law, judicial decision-making, the mint and the power to create money, unused land ("the public domain"), streets and highways, rivers and coastal waters, and the means of delivering mail...the State relies on control of the levers of propaganda to persuade its subjects to obey or even exalt their rulers.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, collectivism, force, free-market, freedom, gang, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, monopoly, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism
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“When the media enjoy such excessive profits from this mass hysteria, what incentive do they have to restrain it?”
― T. Rafael Cimino, The Heir Apparent
tags: mafia, media, politics
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“Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and yale.Me?I was brought up like a mushroom.”
― Frank Costello
tags: mafia
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“Слухи о том, что он связан с японской мафией, сделали его в моих глазах еще более привлекательным. Ну кто не хочет иметь своего человека в мафии?”
― Кауи Харт Хеммингс
tags: mafia
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“There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to a man from the North, and he visualizes the scene of an accident with one dead and one injured man; it's reasonable to let the dead man be and to set about saving the injured man. But a Sicilian visualizes a murdered man and his murderer, and the living man who's to be helped is the murderer.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, To Each His Own
tags: italy, mafia, sicily
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“You're not driving home if it's late, though. I am accustomed to dropping my women off at their door," he snickered because he knew she'd blush and he wanted her to, "and sometimes I put them to bed.”
― S.W. Frank, Alfonzo
tags: alfonzo, mafia
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“Loyalty is beyond what anyone can explain, someone may claim to love you but still betray you, only a loyal person can stay with you even if it's going to cost them their peace and joy.”
― Bamigboye Olurotimi
tags: betrayer, death, determination, friendship, honesty, leadership, life, loyalty, mafia, trust
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“Loyalty has nothing to do with having billions in your accounts, giving food to the poor, having rich people as friends or allies, it's about having people in your life who are ready to die for you to live.”
― Bamigboye Olurotimi
tags: betrayer, death, determination, friendship, honesty, leadership, life, loyalty, mafia, trust
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“Every life I take, I give to you. I will bathe in the blood of any man who tries to come for you, for our family.”
― MINK, His Virgin Queen
tags: devotion, mafia
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“Can you not forgive him, Ricco? Please, I am begging you, for his sake. . . please forgive him.”
Their eyes locked.
His, agonizing.
Hers, pleading.
“You truly loved him, did you? You loved my grandfather.”
She met his gaze unflinchingly. “I wouldn’t marry a man I do not love.”
“Enough to ask forgiveness for his stead?”
She nodded solemnly. “And more, if need be. I would do anything for him who had done nothing but kindness to me because he deserved it, Ricco. Despite everything he’d done, and because of everything he did for you, your grandfather . . . deserved to be un-hated.”
― Mayumi Cruz, The Billionaire's Widow
tags: billionaire, italian, love, mafia, revenge, romance, widow
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“There are too many whys between us. How do we cross that interminably long bridge?”
― Mayumi Cruz, The Billionaire's Widow
tags: drama, italian-mafia, mafia, romance, suspense, suspense-romance
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“A society like the Italian, the very disorder of which renders the action of the State useless and ridiculous, is not without its charm and helps us to grasp this political truth: the principal task of the State today is to justify its own existence. To do so, it has to annihilate society's capacity to survive by itself. Surreptitiously undermining all forms of spontaneous regulation, deregulating, desocializing, breaking down the traditional mechanisms of bodies and antibodies, in order to substitute its artificial mechanisms - such is the strategy of a State locked in a subtle struggle with society - exactly like medicine, which lives off the destruction of natural defences and their replacement by artificial ones.
In Rome, Niccolini manages to counter the obsessive fear of terrorism with a cultural revival. To the Romans who no longer dare go out in the evenings he offers festivals, performances, poetry galas. He brings culture down into the street. He combats the terrorist festival with the cultural, advertising festival. He will be criticized for wasteful expenditure, but the only way to fight terrorism is not to create 'solid' institutions, but to put upon the stage a culture that is as sacrificial, eccentric, and ephemeral as the terrorist acts themselves. One festival against the other. If terrorism is a sort of murderous advertising campaign which keeps our imagination on tenterhooks, it can be countered only by a piece of even more effective advertising.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories
tags: advertising, culture, mafia, medicine, mob, society, state, terrorism
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“She looked like what she was.
A woman on a mission.
Stone fucking cold.
A part of me itched to slip my hands up her skirt, to warm her up.”
― Jessica Gadziala, The Woman in the Trunk
tags: cold-women, mafia
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“The family that eats together maintains a successful interstellar criminal organization together!”
― Amie Kaufman, Gemina
tags: mafia
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“When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed. I really thought that after getting killed on The Sopranos, I should not accept scripts where I die. I mean, there's nowhere to go after getting killed by Tony Soprano.”
― Steve Buscemi
tags: acting, art, character, comedy, death, funny, humor, life-quotes, mafia, steve-buscemi
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“It's better to live one day as a lion than a thousand as a lamb." -- Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo (boss of the Philadelphia/Atlantic City Mafia Family)”
― Roman Martin
tags: humor, mafia, non-fiction, true-crime
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“Brutality was never something that Made Men wanted to hide. They were too proud of it.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“There was nothing good in him, just as he said. Black. Pitch black.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“But no one cared about the fake news as long as there was something to talk about.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense-thriller, thriller
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“And here I thought you were a good girl, like your mother. Taking after her in all aspects.”
“Rage is the one thing I got from my father,”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Are you ready for your first mission as a made man?”
― Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Sons of War
tags: mafia, post-apocalyptic
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“This is a tough business. The cops, the army…,” he said, and he appeared to be struggling for words. “Put a uniform on somebody, tell ’em you got to kill this other guy because he’s the bad guy, you got to kill him—and then anybody can pull the trigger. But in this business, sometimes you got to kill people who maybe they’re your friends.” He stopped and shrugged, as if he were taking a moment to think about this himself. “That’s the way it is in this business. Sometimes maybe it’s even people you love and you got to do it. That’s just the way it is,” he repeated, “in this business.”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone
tags: mafia, mob, murder
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“After all, she had learned something from her father. People preyed on the weak and she was anything but.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“She didn’t have a choice. Not once in her life had someone asked her what she wanted or needed. It was always about the Famiglia.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Family was important for every Sicilian. But the Famiglia was just as important, if not more.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Everything revolved around money and power while she was just a mere piece of the equation.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“She wanted to be strong no matter what the mafia world made females look like. Just because she was a woman didn’t mean that she was born to be fragile. A far cry from it.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“It was the goddamned mafia world that had made her this way. Lies didn’t fall far from the Made Men’s occupation. More often than not it was impossible to detach one from the other.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“She was always meant to follow rules. That much was sure by a single glance her way.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“He was a monster, but she could only pray that he had a fraction of humanity left in him.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“Falcone elenca le scoperte che il discorso di Buscetta consente. Cosa Nostra ha la sua ideologia, anche se censurabile. Sfrutta certi valori del popolo siciliano: l'amicizia, l'onore, il rispetto della famiglia, la lealtà... La mafia strumentalizza virtù e meriti, è un inganno storico.”
― Enzo Biagi, Il Boss è solo: La vera storia di un vero padrino
tags: mafia
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“People do bad things in order to survive.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“L'uomo d'onore vive nel terrore di essere giudicato: per questo non è mai sincero nella parola e spontaneo nelle iniziative. Ricorre, e negli anni diventerà un esperto, alla ipocrisia, farà in modo di non essere mai il primo ad esprimere la sua opinione, e si accorderà sempre, anche controvoglia, con la decisione dei più, che come lui non sono schietti e aperti, ma seguono le direttive di altri più furbi di loro" (Tommaso Buscetta)”
― Enzo Biagi, Il Boss è solo: La vera storia di un vero padrino
tags: mafia
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“Your faith in a better life is not a salvation. It will only lead you to total destruction.”
― Anna Widzisz, Innocent
tags: crime, mafia, romance, suspense, thriller
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“The Mafia, Donna Poldina, is just an invention of the fascists in the north.”
― Mario Giordano, Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions
tags: fake, invention, mafia, organized-crime
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“Well organized criminal group we call mafia, the best organized mafia we call the state.”
― Andrzej Majewski, Aphorisms - quotations about: life, art, woman&man, politics and money: 64 fields
tags: criminal, criminal-group, government, mafia, policy, state
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“She indeed was his sickness. But he no longer wanted to be cured. He didn’t care if it was a sickness or some dangerous form of cancer, as she long as she stayed near him.”
― Meena Love, Heart of the Beast
tags: alpha-male, alpha-male-romance, arms-dealers, beast, crime-lord, mafia, romantic-book-quotes, romantic-suspense
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“All fairy night clubs and gathering places are illegal, and operate only through pay-offs to the authorities. They are organized into a national circuit, controlled by the Mafia which also finds unique opportunity to sell dope in such dives. Many gangsters like it that way, too, after indoctrination in prison.”
― Lee Mortimer, U.S.A. Confidential
tags: gay, lgbtq, mafia
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“Firenza said, “I kind of like Pete. He’s a funny guy.”
“We’ll send him a nice wreath,” Bocatelli said. “The family will appreciate it.”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone
tags: mafia, mob, murder
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“Sometimes there's nothing more satisfying than a good old-fashioned sandwich with potato salad.”
― Dianne Harman
tags: appraisals, art-glass, dogs, horses-palm-springs, mafia, polo, sisters, trusts, weddings
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“There are still people in New York who call themselves Italian
Mafia, but it is a motley collection of low-level criminals that would
embarrass Lucky Luciano. It more closely resembles The Sopranos, without
the therapist.”
― James Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
tags: crime, mafia, mobsters
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“México es el origen de todo. El mundo en el que ahora respiramos es China, es la India, pero es también México. Quien no conoce México no puede entender cómo funciona hoy la riqueza en este planeta. Quien ignora a México no entenderá nunca el destino de las democracias transfiguradas por los flujos del narcotráfico.”
― Roberto Saviano, ZeroZeroZero
tags: cocaine, drugs, mafia, mexico, money, narco, narcos, power
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“I love her. But I hate her, too. How can I feel both for her. . . at the same time?”
― Mayumi Cruz, The Billionaire's Widow
tags: crime, drama, italy, mafia, revenge, romance, romance-novels, suspense, suspense-and-drama
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“Even if it means I’ll never be the man you give yourself to, I’ll always do anything to protect you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
tags: alpha-male, love, mafia, mafia-princess, mafia-romance, protection, safety
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“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”
― Ayn Rand
tags: clinton, collectivism, communism, corruption, evil, freedom, gang, government, hillary, libertarian, liberty, mafia, objectivism, politics, socialism, state, statism
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“Lucy: Why do you want me to stay?
Asher: Because I like you.
Lucy: Why do you want me to go?
Asher: Because I like you.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
tags: friendship, friendship-and-love, like, love, lust, mafia, mafia-princess, mafia-romance
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“Is this how Julia Roberts' character feels like in Pretty Woman? Two parts princess, one part whore?”
― Parker S. Huntington, Asher Black
tags: cinderella, clothes, love, love-story, lovers, lust, mafia, mafia-princess, mafia-romance, mob-romance, pretty-woman, princess, whore, whoring
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“For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.”
― Nicholas Pileggi, Goodfellas: Screenplay
tags: mafia, movie-quote
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“If the Clericuzio Family was the Holy Church for the Mafia empires scattered over the United States, then the head of the Family, Don Domenico Clericuzio was the Pope, admired not only for his intelligence but for his strength.”
― Mario Puzo, The Last Don
tags: mafia, power
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“For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. "You want to learn," he said. "Now listen to me. A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone else calls honor. This dishonor, as you call it, I willingly take upon myself. I did it to save your life as you once took on dishonor to save mine. You would have never left Sicily alive without Don Croce's protection. So be it. Do you want to be a hero like Guiliano, a legend? And dead? I love him as the son of my dear friends, but I do not envy him his fame. You are alive and he is dead. Always remember that and live your life not be be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish."
Michael sighed. "Guiliano had no choice," he said.
"We are more fortunate," the Don said.
It was the first lesson Michael received from his father and the one he learned best. It was to color his future life, persuade him to make terrible decisions he could never have dreamed of making before. It changed his perception of honor and heroism. It helped him survive, but it made him unhappy. For despite the fact that his father did not envy Guiliano, Michael did.”
― Mario Puzo, The Sicilian
tags: heroism, honor, inevitability, mafia, michael-corleone, survival, the-godfather, the-sicilian, vito-corleone
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“It’s true, I couldn’t see how you’d fit. But then I found out my life doesn’t fit me anymore. Not without you.”
― Renee Rose, The Russian
tags: alpha-male, bad-boy, bdsm, mafia, novella, tattooes, the-russian
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“Fame, power,money,love. The moon, the stars, the whole galaxy. Give it to me.My fetish is domination; not of men, not of my self, of everything. A shiver goes up my spine when I watch other bow their head, In my previous life I must have been a born great queen”
― J.J. McAvoy, Vicious Minds
tags: love-fiercely, mafia, mob
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“Boys. It’s late. If you’re not gonna kill me, what do you want?”
― Edward Falco, The Family Corleone
tags: crime, funny, humor, mafia, murder, peter-clemenza
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“There was something wild beneath the surface that his suit couldn't hide. He had the cocky arrogance of a man who broke the rules with impunity. A man who feared nothing. A very, very dangerous man.”
― Sarah Castille, Luca
tags: contemporary-romance, fiction, mafia, romance, romantic-suspense
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“A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.”
― Basma Salem, The Art Of Black
tags: enemy, friends, gang, mafia
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“Everyone thought the mob was done after RICO.... And they were. Then the Towers came down. Overnight, the feds shifted three-quarters of their personnel into anti-terrorism and the mob made a comeback. Shit, they even made a fortune overcharging for debris removal from Ground Zero.... 9/11 saved the mafia.”
― Don Winslow, The Force
tags: 9-11, fbi, ground-zero, mafia, mob, new-york-city
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“In 1934, strongman Fulgencio Batista forced President Grau’s resignation. Then in 1940, Grau lost his bid for the Presidency to his adversary Batista. Four years later in 1944, he did win the election and took office for a four-year term starting on October 10th. After Grau won the election and was the President elect, Batista still in office, blatantly attacked the National Treasury, leaving the cupboards bare by the time Grau was actually sworn in as President.
Since Grau and Batista were staunch adversaries, it is highly unlikely that any deal could have been made in 1946 to allow “Lucky” Luciano into Cuba, especially with Luciano having been exiled to Sicily by the United States government that preceding February. Still, Lansky had enough political pull within the Cuban government to prepare for a strong Mafia presence in Havana.
In October of 1946, in an attempt to keep his whereabouts a secret, “Lucky” Luciano covertly boarded a freighter taking him from Naples, Italy, to Caracas, Venezuela. Then Luciano flew south to Rio de Janeiro and returned north to Mexico City. On October 29, 1946, he arranged for a private flight from Mexico City to Camagüey, Cuba, where Meyer Lansky met him. Having the right connections, Luciano passed through Cuban customs unimpeded and was whisked by car to the splendid Grand Hotel.
Luciano, having just arrived in Cuba, was looking forward to setting up operations. Cuba would actually be a better place than the United States for what he had in mind.”
― Captain Hank Bracker
tags: cuban-history, lansky, luciano, mafia, mob
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“A Conspiracy Theory that took hold was introduced by Anthony “Tony” Summers, the respected author of The Kennedy Conspiracy, published in 1980 and again in 1998 as “Not in Your Lifetime.” He believes that anti-Castro activists, funded by Mafia mobsters who had been ousted from Cuba, killed Kennedy. Summers believes that members of the CIA took part in this conspiracy and named the people he suspected. Summers also stated in an article published in the National Enquirer magazine, on October 25, 2013, that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone. The National Enquirer stated that Herminio Diaz, born in Cuba in 1923, had, in 1948, shot Pipi Hernandez, who was a Dominican exile employed at the naval base at Guantanamo. This killing took place at the Cuban Consulate in Mexico. In 1957, he was involved with an assassination attempt against President José Figueres of Costa Rica, who incidentally was a trained Army Ranger and a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
According to JFKFacts published on May 27, 2014, General Fabián Escalante, the historian of Cuban State Security and Castro’s former bodyguard, said that the assassin Herminio Diaz, along with Eladio del Valle and three American mobsters: Richard Gaines, Lenny Patrick, and Dave Yara, were the shooters at Dealey Plaza.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba"
tags: american-history, conspiracy-theory, kennedy-assassination, mafia
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“Una de las cosas que sí tenía clara acerca de aquellas organizacio-nes era lo que tan bien recitaba aquel dicho italiano: la sangre llama a la sangre. Si traicionas o engañas a un mafioso, ten por seguro que la muerte vendrá a ti; si sales de la mafia, lo harás dentro de una bolsa para cadáveres.”
― Paquibel Sánchez Rueda, No existe el perdón
tags: italia, mafia, muerte, sangre
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“Marita Lorenz, was born on August 18, 1939, in Bremen, Germany. In January of 1960 Marita, described as an attractive “curvy, black-haired young lady was named American’s “Mata Hari” by New York Daily News reporter Paul Meskil. Having had an affair with Fidel Castro that turned sour, she now returned to Havana where she attempted to take part in an assassination attempt, supposedly orchestrated by the Mafia and the CIA. Marita brought along poison pills in her cold cream jar, which predictably melted in the tropical heat. Besides, she later said that she really did not have the stomach for killing her former lover. Apparently Castro aware of why she returned to Cuba, handed her his pistol with a dare for her to use it. Even after knowing the truth regarding her visit, he allowed her to safely leave Cuba.
Returning to Miami, Marita said that Frank Sturgis, presumably a CIA operative, was involved in this attempt, however it was his close associate, Alex Rorke, who was responsible for orchestrating the plan to poison Castro. Sturgis was extremely angry when she returned and rebuked her for putting the pills into the warm cold cream, calling her stupid, over and over again.
For a few years after leaving the island, Marita was looked after and protected by a mobster named Ed Levi. It was his job to protect her from, what was considered, a likely attempt on her life by “Cuban Intelligence Operatives.” In 1961, Marita met Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the former President of Venezuela, in Miami. Marcos told her that he was anxious to meet her because he knew she was “Fidel's girl." He successfully pursued Marita, and when she gave in, they had an affair that resulted in the birth of a daughter.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba
tags: cia, cuban-history, mafia, sex
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“My father was a renowned chef, who had learned his trade as an apprentice in Europe. During the depression with work hard to find, he accepted employment at Mafia run speakeasies “The Top Hat” and the “Gay Haven,” along with some other similar places, were roughshod, working class nightclubs in Union City, New Jersey, that hosted top performers. Ultimately, being recognized for his abilities, my father was offered the position of “Sous Chef” at the famous Lindy’s Restaurant in New York City, referred to as “Mindy’s” in Damon Runyon’s Broadway play “Guys and Dolls.” Being a loyal employee, he worked at Lindy’s for over three decades until his retirement. Union City, New Jersey, now has the second largest Cuban population concentration in the United States. But in earlier times it was known for having the rowdy “Hudson Burlesque,” as well as gathering places at the “Transfer Station,” where “men of means” could connect with “ladies of the night” and buy them a drink at one of the classy watering holes, such as the “Key Hole Bar and Grill.” I guess that it all came under the heading of “Entertainment.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One...."
tags: mafia, nightclubs, restaurants, speakeasies
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“People in Sicily were unsure which possible scenario was worse: that a judge entrusted with the most delicate mafia cases had sold himself to the enemy of that an honest man had been destroyed by an occult hand. Some suggested a third possibly, that Signorino was not guilty of outright collusion but that he had committed some impropriety, accepted some favor, met or knew certain people of dubious reputation, which would invariant create an appearance of guilt with which he could not live.”
― Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
tags: mafia
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“The following year, on June 20, 1947, not suspecting what was about to happen, Bugsy Siegel was sitting on a couch in the living room of Virginia Hill’s home at 810 Linden Drive in Beverly Hills. As he was reading a newspaper, an assassin fired a number of shots, from a rifle, through the front window. Siegel was shot twice in the head, with one bullet exiting his skull near the bridge of his nose, causing his left eye to be blown out of its socket. He was also hit twice in the torso. His death was instantaneous and the graphic photos of his bullet-riddled body made headline news. Although there were enough suspects to go around, Eddie Cannizzaro, the “Cat Man,” a connected west coast mobster, made a deathbed confession that he was the one who carried out the contract. Although the case isn’t closed, it is cold and will most likely remain so, as it rests on the desk of Detective Les Zoeller of the Los Angeles Police Department.”
― Captain Hank Bracker
tags: american-history, mafia, the-exciting-story-of-cuba
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“I got taken in by my uncle Frankie, know to his friends as Butcher Franchetti and to his enemies as 'Oh God no, don't kill my children, Don Franchetti'.”
― Garth Ennis, The Darkness: Origins, Volume 1
tags: mafia
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“«Un omo dovrebbe campare quanto è di giusto. Novant'anni sono assà, troppi. E addiventano ancora chiussà quanno che uno è obbligato a ripigliare le cose in mano doppo che pinsàva d'essersene sbarazzato. E la facenna di Japichinu mi ha consumatu, dottore. Non dormu per la prioccupazione. È macari malatu di petto. Io ci dissi: consegnati ai carrabbinera, almeno ti curano, Ma Japichinu è picciotto, tistardu come tutti i picciotti. Comunque, io ho dovuto ripinsàri a pigliari la famiglia in manu. Ed è difficili, difficili assà. Pirchì intantu lu tempu è andato avanti, e gli òmini si sono cangiati. Non capisci cchiù come la pensano, non capisci quello che gli sta passando per la testa. Un tempu, tantu pi fari un esempiu, su una data facenna complicata ci si ragiunava. Macari a longo, macari pi jorna e jorna, macari fino alle mali parole, alla sciarriatina, ma si ragiunava. Ora la genti non voli cchiù ragiunari, non voli pèrdiri tempu».
«E allora che fa?».
«Spara, dottore mio, spara. E a sparari semu tutti bravi, macari u cchiù fissa di la comitiva. Se lei, putacaso, ora comu ora scoccia il revorbaro che tiene nella sacchetta...».
«Non ce l'ho, non cammino armato».
«Daveru?!».
Lo sbalordimento di don Balduccio era sincero.
«Dottore mio, 'mprudenza è! Con tanti sdilinquenti ca ci sono in giro...».
«Lo so. Ma non mi piacciono le armi».
«Manco a mia piacevano. Ripigliamo il discorso. Se lei mi punta un revorbaro contro e mi dice: "Balduccio, inginocchiati", non ci sono santi. Essendo io disarmato, mi devo inginocchiari. È ragionato? Ma questo non significa che lei è un omo d'onore, significa solo che lei è, mi pirdonasse, uno strunzo con un revorbaro in mano».
«E invece come agisce un omo d'onore?».
«Non come agisce, dottore, ma come agiva. Lei viene da mia disarmato e mi parla, m'espone la quistione, mi spiega le cosi a favori e le cosi contro, e se iu in prima non sugnu d'accordu, u jornu appressu torna e ragiunamu, ragiunamu fino a quannu iu mi fazzu convintu ca l'unica è di mettermi in ginocchiu comu voli lei, nell'interessi miu e di tutti».
Fulmineo, nel ricordo del commissario s'illuminò un brano della manzoniana Colonna Infame, quando un disgraziato è portato al punto di dover pronunziare la frase «ditemi cosa volete che io dica» o qualcosa di simile. Ma non aveva gana di mettersi a discutere di Manzoni con don Balduccio.
«Mi risulta però che macari a quei tempi beati che lei mi sta contando si usava ammazzare la gente che non voleva mettersi in ginocchio».
«Certo!» fece con vivacità il vecchio. «Certo! Ma ammazzare un omo pirchì si era refutato d'obbediri, lo sapi lei che significava?». «No». «Significava una battaglia persa, significava che il coraggio di quell'omo non ci aveva lasciato altra strata. Mi spiegai?».”
― Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari
tags: mafia, onore
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“Il catafero di Japichinu sarebbe andato a finire nello sbalanco di qualche chiarchiàro... No, il nonno sapeva quanto fosse religioso il nipoteddru. L'avrebbe fatto seppellire anonimamente in terra consacrata. Dintra il tabbuto di un altro.”
― Andrea Camilleri, Excursion to Tindari
tags: humor, mafia, religion
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“Tim, playing ball with them [the Chicago mob] doesn’t mean you lost the game—it means you’re finally in the game.”
― Jennifer Samson, Piece of Work
tags: chicago, gangster, mafia, mob, sam-wyatt, tim-kelly
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“Well, they didn’t beat the smart ass out of him.”
― Jennifer Samson, Piece of Work
tags: beating, mafia, mob, smart-ass
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“Among other jobs that we did, my brother Bill and I were shoe shine boys in Jersey City and Hoboken during the World War II years. We went from tavern to tavern shining shoes for ten cents and hopefully a generous tip. The Hoboken waterfront bristled with starkly looming, grey hulled Liberty ships. Secured to the piers facing River Street, they brandished their ominous cannons towards what I thought was City Hall. An unappreciated highlight was when I shined Frank Sinatra’s shoes at a restaurant on Washington Street, just west from the Clam Broth House. There was no doubt but that Hoboken was an exciting place during those years. Years later I met Frank at Jilly's saloon, a lounge on West 52d Street in Manhattan, for a few drinks and a little fun around town. Even though I was an adult by then, he still called me “kid!”
It was obvious that Frank Sinatra enjoyed friendly relations with Mafia notables such as Carlo Gambino, “Joe Fish” Fischetti and Sam Giancana. Meyer Lansky was said to have been a friend of Sinatra’s parents in Hoboken. During this time Sinatra spoke in awe about Bugsy Siegel and was in an AP syndicated photograph, seen in many newspapers, with Tommy “Fatso” Marson, Don Carlo Gambino 'The Godfather', and Jimmy 'The Weasel, Fratianno. Little wonder that the Federal Bureau of Investigation kept their eye on Sinatra for almost 50 years.
A memo in FBI files revealed that Sinatra felt that he could be of use to them. However, it is difficult to believe that Sinatra would have become an FBI informer, better known as a “rat.”
It was in May of 1998 when Sinatra, being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles told his wife Barbara, “I’m losing.” Frank Sinatra died on May 14th at 82 years of age. It is alleged that he was buried with the wedding ring from his ex-wife, Mia Farrow, which she slid unnoticed into his suit pocket during his “viewing.”
Aside from his perceived personal and public image, Frank Sinatra’s music will shape his enduring legacy for decades to come. His 100th birthday was celebrated at the Hollywood Bowl on Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Somehow Frank will never age and his music will never fade….”
― Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba
tags: cuban-history, frank-sinatra, mafia, world-war-ii
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“Among the organizational means that humans have used to commit aggression against each other, those recognized as governments have been by far the most harmful. However they have not been the only institutional instruments of aggression. Other institutions – churches, corporations, groups such as the mafia and the narco-cartels, etc. – have also committed aggression on a scale that exceeds the individual capacity for evil. Although they did not call themselves governments, one could say they acted governmentally. Meanwhile, though rarely, some governments have mostly left people in peace. Therefore I say that government is as government does.”
― Starchild
tags: aggression, calling-a-spade-a-spade, churches, corporations, evil, government, institutions, mafia, organizational-culture, society
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“Los Ascione y los Rossi eran algo así como los Capuleto y los
Montesco: rivales desde el día que nació cada cosca. Por eso este plan
era el doble de delicado y peligroso que los demás; si algo salía mal, ya
podíamos darnos por muertos.”
― Paquibel Sánchez Rueda, No existe el perdón
tags: cosca, intriga, mafia, novela-negra, romeo-and-juliet, romeo-y-julieta
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“—Si supieras… Si te probasen que algo es cierto. Si tú supieras que
algo es cierto y mucha gente te dijese lo contrario, incluso… si te
amenazasen de muerte. ¿Harías lo que crees que es correcto? ¿Seguirías
la verdad, como hizo Galileo, o cederías ante las amenazas?”
― Paquibel Sánchez Rueda, No existe el perdón
tags: evangeline, héctor, mafia, mario
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“In Havana, Vito Genovese, the patriarch of the Genovese family, met with Luciano in his room at the luxurious Hotel Nacional. Genovese informed him that the United States government knew where he was and was applying pressure on the Cuban Government to deport him. It was with this in mind that Genovese proposed that Luciano should turn over his interests to him. Luciano flipped out and rejected Don Vito’s suggestion. Consulting with his capos “caporegimes,” Anthony “Little Augie Pisano” Carfano and Michele “Big Mike” Miranda, who was soon to become his advisor and counselor “consigliere,” they firmly believed that, here in Cuba, Luciano would be able to survive the onslaught and be able to remain in Havana. He also understood that if he remained in Cuba it would cost him, and buying his way out of this mess would only be the beginning.”
― Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba"
tags: american-history, cuban-history, mafia
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“This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow
tags: broken, crow, hell, love, mafia, trauma, triggers
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“Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, fair, free-markets, freedom, gang, government, interventionism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, protectionism, rulers, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, trade, voluntaryism
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“State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: anarchy, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, criminal, evil, fascism, free-market, freedom, gang, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, statism, theft, thieves, violence, voluntaryism
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“I never realized how empty my life had really become until I had him in it. He did that to me. He said I wrecked him, but he completely destroyed me. Everything was fine when I was alone. When I didn’t have to feel or think or care about someone else. Sure I was sad and broken, but I was okay. Now, I’m anything but.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow
tags: broken-heart, crow, destroyed, love, mafia
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“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, communism, fascism, free, free-markets, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nazism, non-aggression-principle, omnipotent, politics, regime, slavery, socialism, state, statism, totalitarian, trade, voluntaryism
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“My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.”
― Lawrence W. Reed
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, democracy, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, individualism, laissez-faire, legal, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, mob-rule, non-aggression-principle, plunder, politics, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism
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“Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: anarchist, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, gang, government, individual, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, non-aggression-principle, politics, principle, rights, socialism, statism, taxation, taxes, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“It must be remembered that a vast majority of mankind’s history has been spent living under the rule of tyrants and authoritarians. The ideas of Liberty are very new when you consider the big picture. By contrast, various forms of socialism and fascism have been adopted over and over again. Be wary of those who try to present these old and tired ideas as something new and exciting. Liberty and free markets are the way forward if we truly desire peace and prosperity.”
― Ron Paul
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, communism, fascism, free, free-market, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism, war
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“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.”
― Robert Higgs
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, contracts, economics, evil, force, free, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, law, libertarian, liberty, mafia, market, markets, non-aggression-principle, statism, taxation, theft, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“I thought I told you I don’t play by the rules,” I argue.
“Ye’re mistaken,” he says. “Ye just walked into my world unbidden. So you will play by the rules, butterfly. You’ll be playing by all my rules.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow
tags: crow, love, mafia, rules
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“Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything "back" to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.”
― Jeffrey Tucker
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, business, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communication, company, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, free-market, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, parasites, politics, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, violence, voluntaryism
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“Actually, in its essence, democracy is a totalitarian ideology, though not as extreme as Nazism, fascism or communism. In principle, no freedom is safe in a democracy, every aspect of the individual's life is potentially subject to government control. At the end of the day, the minority is completely at the mercy of the whims of the majority. Even if a democracy has a constitution limiting the powers of the government, this constitution too can be amended by the majority. The only fundamental right you have in a democracy, besides running for office, is the right to vote for a political party. With that solitary vote you hand over your independence and your freedom to the will of the majority.”
― Frank Karsten, Beyond Democracy: Why democracy does not lead to solidarity, prosperity and liberty but to social conflict, runaway spending and a tyrannical government
tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, communism, free-society, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, mob-rule, non-aggression-principle, politics, socialism, society, thugs, violence, voluntaryism, war
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“There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.”
― Albert Jay Nock
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, communism, democracy, free, free-market, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, trade
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“This is everything I thought I didn't want. Or didn't need. But I'm here now and it's everything I need and the only thing I want.”
― Tamara Lush, Hot Shade
tags: florida, love, mafia, romance, romance-novels
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“What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather
tags: grudges, grudges-against-people, mafia, reason, the-godfather, vendetta
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“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force by the government, or with the sanction of the government. Monopoly exists insofar as the freedom of competition is violated, with the freedom of competition being understood as the absence of the initiation of physical force as the preventive of competition. Where there is no initiation of physical force to violate the freedom of competition, there is no monopoly. The freedom of competition is violated only insofar as individuals are excluded from markets or parts of markets by means of the initiation of physical force. Monopoly is thus a market or part of a market reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of the initiation of physical force. It is thus something imposed upon the market from without—by the government. (Private individuals—gangsters—can initiate force to reserve markets only if the government allows it and thereby sanctions it.)
Thus, monopoly is not something which emerges from the normal operation of the economic system, and which the government must control.”
― George Reisman
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, crapitalism, crony, economics, evil, free, freedom, human, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, markets, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, rights, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, trade, violation, voluntaryism
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“What I want you to understand is that when I heard your words, it was as if every single second we had spent together up to that point was a lie. Every word, every touch, every kiss. You were looking at me, but you wanted him. I was this…thing to be endured to keep your family safe. You would allow me to touch you, to make love to you all the while wishing for Colin. I thought all that passion we had between us was a complete figment of my imagination and it was a bitter pill to swallow. I hated you. Worse than I’d ever hated anyone in my life. I was determined to make you pay. I’d keep you shackled to me forever as punishment. Keep you away from your true love.” Bree stared at him, unable to fathom such cruelty. Who was this man she loved that was capable of such a thing? “And then?” He took a deep shaky breath and leaned against the edge of the desk, crossing his arms over his chest. “Then I spent all my energy trying to prove to myself by looking at you that you were lying to me, to justify what I was doing by picking up little gestures or flickers in your eyes that would prove to me that you felt nothing for me.” Bree rolled her eyes and gave a tearful snort. “And did you, after how hard I fought for you, did you get what you wanted? Did you prove to yourself what a lying bitch I am?” “No. Of course not. So I started to doubt what I heard.” “After living with Bernardo for all your life it had just occurred to you that he just may have tampered with the fucking thing?” Bree bit out, furiously.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“The course she was on was as fixed and unalterable as the trajectory of a bullet, but you could see she did not believe that. No one in the life ever believed it. They saw a dozen, a hundred, a thousand people precede them into the trap, saw how unvarying and pitiless the end was, and with all that fresh in their minds they did the same, of their own free will.”
― Miles Watson, Cage Life
tags: crime, criminal-minds, hustlers-ambition, mafia
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“The Mafia’s involvement with gay bars is ironic on so many levels. Macho guys ruled gangland but supported a subculture for nelly queens. Most mobsters were evil sociopaths motivated only by financial self-interest but nevertheless were doing a good thing in providing social spaces for the gay community. The mob was on the wrong side of the liquor laws by serving gay folk but on the right side of the 14th Amendment in arguing for equal protection. The Mafia exploited an oppressed community but advanced the gay cause.”
― Phillip Crawford Jr., The Mafia and the Gays
tags: gay, gay-rights, mafia
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“Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.”
― Mario Puzo
tags: dogs, funny, mafia, omerta
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“Darling!” Alessandro exclaimed with a cold sneer as a police guard led him into a holding cell. “What are you doing here? Did you come to tell me that the crazy fog has lifted and you’re ready to resume your place by my side?” “Not in this lifetime. That nut house is not my home, and you really are crazy if you think I’m going anywhere with you.” Alessandro’s eyes flickered dangerously. “Careful, sweetheart. You are still my wife. Let’s not forget that, eh?” Bree shook her head. “You are unbelievable. Do you feel any remorse at all for what you did?” Alessandro clenched his jaw. “I believe I expressed my remorse quite thoroughly if you recall. I begged you to forgive me and I beg for nothing, Brianna. I laid myself bare and pleaded for you to understand but all you had for me were hateful words.” “Oh, was I supposed to believe that little performance?” Bree snapped, forcing herself to block out the image of his hands cupping her face, his tears mingling with her own. “It’s hard to know because I believed you when you looked me in the eye and told me you had nothing to do with what happened to Colin.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Have you thought about what will happen when you start living the life that's right for you, instead of the one you promised to live for someone else?”
― Tamara Lush
tags: florida, mafia, romance, romance-novels, romantic-suspense
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“Hello, darling,” Alessandro smiled at her. Oh, that smile. Bree wanted to close her eyes, press her hands against her eyes and keep them shut forever so she wouldn’t see that smile. She must have had the question on her face, the knowledge on her face because as she looked at him now, something flickered in his eyes. Guilt. Oh God. “Mommy, look. I make good bouncies. See?” Will said, dribbling the ball. “I gonna be a basset ball player when I gwoed up.” The little boy’s voice sounded far away as Bree narrowed in on Alessandro and the look in his eyes. “Brian. I want you and Vanessa to take Will and Gianni out for a little while.” “Oh but we’re having a good time out here, aren’t we Gianni?” Alessandro asked, tickling Gianni who squealed and curled inward. “Now,” Bree said, her voice tight. Will stopped bouncing the ball and held it against his chest looking at both of them, picking up on the angry tension that suddenly covered them all. “Uh oh. I tink mommy’s mad.” “I’m not leaving you alone in your condition, Bree. Alessandro, we just came from the hospital. Colin’s awake,” Brian informed him, his voice tight with anger. “You spoke to Colin?” Alessandro asked, meeting Bree’s eyes. “I did. And Carrie.” He looks like a cornered animal. And what do Dardanos do when they’re cornered? They lie. They cheat. Oh God. “Fine, then can you just take the boys upstairs?” Bree said, speaking to Brian, but not moving her gaze from her husband. “Come on, guys. Let’s go play upstairs for a while,” Vanessa said walking past Bree and taking Gianni from Alessandro’s lap.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Bree blinked her tears back and shook her head. “Wow. Then I guess you really are your father’s son, huh?” “You have no idea,” Alessandro snapped before leaving. Part of her wanted to run after him but a stronger part of her knew he wouldn’t listen to anything she had to say while the red haze was still burning inside of him. He wanted a fight. She’d give him one”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Bree grit her teeth and lunged for him but Brian held her back and Will spoke up instead. “You go away!” Will cried back angrily. “I know you did sumting dat made my mommy mad at my daddy. Is you fault!” “I suggest you put a muzzle on your brat and get back in the living room,” Bernardo ordered. “Careful, Father. This is none of your concern,” Alessandro said. “Are you kidding me?” Bree asked. “Of course this is his concern because he’s the only one you give a damn about. You’ll do anything for him. Absolutely anything even if it means betraying me or Will or God forbid Gianni.” “That is not true. I would never—” “It is true!” Bree yelled. “Everything you’ve done has proven that.” “Look, every marriage has problems and that is no reason to turn back on the vows you made to each other,” Bernardo pointed out. “You made a promise to honor the terms of the O'Reiley/Dardano vendetta. Be careful before you renege on those vows, Mrs. Dardano.” “You and your stupid vendetta!” Bree hissed. “Begun by a man who couldn’t handle the fact that he couldn’t have what he wanted! God it must be genetic. Well, I guess I shouldn’t blame you, Alessandro. Knowing Bernardo and Adriano, at least you come by it honestly.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“It was while he was fixing the footage Max had given him that the doubts about the disc Bernardo had played for him began to
plague him with ever growing strength. Alessandro couldn’t contemplate his father doing something so cruel but…Bernardo would certainly know how. Hell, Bernardo had taught him how to fiddle with electronics when he was still a teenager. And he wanted Alessandro under his control, under his roof. Knowing that Alessandro was trying to keep his family together and that entailed moving into their own house, out from the Dardano mansion, would Bernardo try to turn him with false information?”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Di mafia non si parlava mai allora, tutti sapevano che esisteva una forza maligna capace di imporre la sua volontà col coltello e col fucile. Ma chi stringesse quel coltello e chi imbracciasse quel fucile era difficile dirlo. D'altronde, per chi lo sapeva, era meglio fare finta di non averlo mai saputo. I maggiorenti del paese, signori che giravano per i marciapiedi in giacca di pigiama col cappello a larghe falde in testa, negavano che esistesse questa mafia. E quando pronunciavano la parola, piegavano le labbra in giù, come per sputare. Portavano le mani all'aria e dicevano ridacchiando: favole sunnu… roba per turisti… E con questo il paese si richiudeva nella sua vita quotidiana, fatta di soprusi, di sofferenze, di torti subiti in silenzio, di cose taciute e mai dette, come fosse il più felice dei paesi.”
― Dacia Maraini, Bagheria
tags: mafia, sicily
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“Già:cos'è la mafia? [...] Bellodi raccontò la storia del medico di un carcere siciliano che si era messo in testa,giustamente, di togliere ai detenuti mafiosi il privilegio di risiedere in infermeria: c'erano nel carcere molti malati, ed alcuni addirittura tubercolotici che stavano nelle celle e nelle camerate comuni; mentre i caporioni, sanissimi, occupavano l'infermeria per godere di un trattamento migliore. Il medico ordinò che tornassero ai reparti comuni, e che i malati venissero in infermeria.Nè gli agenti nè il direttore diedero seguito alla disposizione del medico, e così scrisse al ministero. Una notte fu chiamato dal carcere,gli dissero che un detenuto aveva urgente bisogno del medico. Il medico andò, a un certo punto si trovò solo in mezzo ai detenuti: i caporioni lo picchiarono,accuratamente,con giudizio.Le guardie non si accorsero di niente.[...] si rivolse ai compagni di partito per avere appoggio:gli risposero che era meglio lasciar correre. Si rivolse allora a un capomafia:che gli desse la soddisfazione almeno di far picchiare uno di coloro che lo avevano picchiato.
Ebbe poi assicurazione che il colpevole era stato picchiato a dovere.”
― Sciascia, Leonardo
tags: ilgiornodellacivetta, mafia
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“Secondo me, ogni volta che si scrive un articolo si racconta la storia di uno di loro, secondo me bisognerebbe fare questa premessa: il pidocchio tal dei tali ha vissuto di merda, ha ingoiato la merda degli altri pidocchi e degli sbirri ogni giorno che il cielo l'ha mandato in terra, ha dormito in posti di merda per scappare alla merda del carcere duro, è finito in cella a spalare merda, ha finito per puzzare di merda e, ah, sì, una volta l'hanno visto guidare una macchina di lusso.
Strappo un sorriso a Mario, che però subito replica: È più complicato di così.
Certo che è più complicato di così, gli rispondo. Non mi sognerei mai di dire che Il padrino ha fatto crescere il numero dei pidocchi, forse quello dei turisti, ma non quello dei pidocchi. Però se la si smettesse di far sembrare i pidocchi sempre dei fichi, forse male non farebbe. Voglio dire, pure i Sopranos, belli, per carità, e di Toni si sente anche un po' il profumo della merda che pesta ogni giorno, però mai una volta una cosa brutale che faccia dire Oh, gran bei coglioni questi, tutta questa vucciria per vivere così di merda.”
― Giuseppe Rizzo, Piccola guerra lampo per radere al suolo la Sicilia
tags: mafia, sicilia, vita-di-merda
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“After the Stonewall riots the gay activists had their idealistic hearts in the right place but it turned out they had underestimated the realpolitik of organized crime. Indeed, as gay liberation blossomed in the wild 1970s the bars and bathhouses became increasingly lucrative enterprises, and the Mafia had no intention of abandoning a racket it had controlled for decades. The Mafia families maintained their control by exercising the proverbial carrot and stick. The wise guys seemingly embraced the gay rights movement and cut more so-called Auntie Gays into the action as their fronts, and resorted to violent threats and sometimes murder against others who refused to play ball with the crime families. There were few legitimate businessmen in gay nightlife of the 1970s.”
― Phillip Crawford Jr., The Mafia and the Gays
tags: 1970s, bars, gay-history, lgbt, mafia, nightlife, stonewall-riots
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“Every socialist is a disguised dictator.”
― Ludwig von Mises
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“If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.”
― Lysander Spooner
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, force, free-market, freedom, gang, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, theft, violence, voluntaryism, welfare-state
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“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
― Ayn Rand
tags: austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, force, free-market, freedom, government, idiots, individualism, irrationality, keynesian, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, superstition, taxation, theft, useful-idiots, voluntayism
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“What do you think you’re doing?” She snapped, watching Alessandro pull back the covers and pull his legs in under the blankets. “I’m going to sleep, darling. I don’t think any amorous advances would be welcome tonight seeing as you’re in a bit of a snit, so ’night, darling.” “Get out of this bed, right now or so help me, I will do something to you that will severely compromise your ability to father any more children.” “Ah, so you admit that there will be more children for us?” He gave her a small smile. Bree came up on her elbows and narrowed her eyes. “Alessandro, go back to your coffee table.” “No.” “What do you mean, no? I’m furious with you. I don’t want to sleep with you, now get out,” “Let me put it another way, Sunshine,” he reached over and tapped her nose playfully. “Not bloody hardly. I am paying for this room and that includes this bed.” “Fine. Then I’ll go somewhere else,” Bree said, kicking the blanket off of her. Alessandro reached out a long leg and hooked it around one of hers, trapping her. “If you don’t want me to tie you to this bed, you’ll stay where you are. And you know how much I’d enjoy that.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Good morning, Sunshine,” Alessandro whispered, dragging the satiny soft object across the tip of her nose. Curiosity made her open her eyes. A rose. A blue rose. “I figured a single rose was safer than a dozen considering the massacre of the last blue roses I gave you,” he smiled sheepishly. “Happy birthday, darling.” Bree blinked and tried to remember what day it was. The fifteenth apparently. She groaned and pulled the blankets back over her head. She was officially thirty today. “Come on now, up we go,” Alessandro pulled the blankets off her face and grabbed her arm, bringing her up. “For my birthday, I want sleep,” she groaned. Gianni had suffered through a painful night as another tooth was starting to come in and thus his parents had suffered as well. “Nope, we’ve got a long day ahead of us. Let’s go.” “Why?” Bree yawned. “Because thirty years ago you were born and my life as I knew it would never be the same,” Alessandro explained, nuzzling her neck.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“What did you do to make him smile?” “Ah…” Alessandro bit back a grin and cleared his throat. “I might’ve sung a song.” “Really? What song?” “As his mother, I don’t think I should repeat it for you,” Alessandro said, his cheeks and the tips of his ears pink. “Oh come on, Alessandro. The windows didn’t break so you couldn’t have done that bad a job.” “It’s not my ability that I’m referring to,” Alessandro replied. Bree narrowed her eyes. “Just what were you singing to my son? And so help me if you say anything by Sir Mix-a-lot I’ll castrate you,” “Not quite,” Alessandro said. “All right. But, remember you asked for it. Your cousin Max, taught it to me.” Bree crossed her arms over her breasts and waited.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro…we should go down-” “Oh I agree.” He smiled, mischievous brown eyes lifting to hers. “Downstairs,” she corrected. “I like my meaning better,” and with that he went down on his knees. “No!” Bree hissed even as her body was screaming YES! “Stop arguing with me, darling.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“I like that,” Bree admitted. “It’s like…it’s never too late to change.” Her eyes met his, and she hoped he understood that she meant it for him as well as for herself. She wanted Alessandro to give in to the good she knew was in him and leave the Dardano family behind.
“I forgot about that. I feel rather ashamed of it now. Because of the things I’ve done. Then I was looking at this tiny creature here, and you’re going to think I’m mad but…every time I look at him, he looks different to me. He’s the same boy, but something in him is always changing. It’s not a physical thing that I can explain to you, but it’s…like…I don’t know,” Alessandro said shrugging and lowering his head. He sat on the bed next to her and stared at the incubator. The baby’s eyes were open, staring back, blinking slowly, sleepily.
“You’re seeing him become a person. Like all the parts of him are coming together and making this tiny person’s soul. He was one person in here,” Bree pointed to her stomach. “And now he’s changing on the outside so he can be a part of the world.”
“That’s it,” Alessandro nodded. “He’s a part of the world now. My world, in a completely different way than when he was inside of you. It’s like having two sons and watching them become one as a slow minute by minute process. He’s never going to stop changing. What he thinks and feels now is not going to be what he thinks and feels tomorrow or fifty years from now.”
“It’s the same for you,” Bree said, closing her fingers over his on the bed.
“I don’t want to forget that again, Brianna. I don’t ever want to forget that I can change.”
He looked so earnest that Bree couldn’t help bringing his hand to her lips. “Then don’t.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“That girl didn’t have a moment’s peace from the day Adriano Dardano set foot in Galway and started chasing her.” Sister Brannigan said, as she led them around the convent garden. “Nice of Francesca to stay still for him to catch her then wasn’t it?” Alessandro remarked dryly. “Mmph,” the nun responded. “My grandfather loved Francesca,” Alessandro insisted. “Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead. But let’s call a spade a spade, hmm? Your grandfather was a charmer. Now perhaps he didn’t realize just how naïve our Francesca was and how besotted with him she was.” “Mmm, very generous of you,” Alessandro grumbled. “I will say that on the times he brought some food he had made with Francesca up to the convent, it was clear he had a wonderful talent in the kitchen. Now mind ye, the Italian food was a bit rich for my taste but still, rather good.” “I’m sure my grandfather’s resting easier in his grave now that the holy sister has complimented his cooking,” Alessandro whispered in Bree’s ear making, her laugh out loud and Sister Brannigan turn to her in question.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree stared at the items and the simple silver chain around her finger. Why? The question stayed with her as she paced around the inn, waiting for Alessandro and the boys. Why wouldn’t she keep Adriano’s locket around her neck. Who was in plot 777 in London and why was it important? Whose address was this? Bree wondered, staring at the slip of paper. Her curiosity was most definitely peaked.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree turned to him and gave him an uneasy nod. She had no idea if they were gonna make things better or worse, but she had to know for herself what Francesca had gone through, where she lived and why she made the decisions she had. If she could find out more about the ill-fated romance between Francesca and Adriano, maybe she and Alessandro could avoid a similar, miserable ending.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Well, no, Sister Brannigan was the one putting her name on the checks to the cemetery. Someone else was making the deposits into her personal account.” “But now that she’s gone?” “I suppose the Neapolitan benefactor will have to find someone else if he wants to remain anonymous.” Bree snorted, “For a second I thought maybe it might be Bernardo.” “Well, why not? I mean, a little bank fraud isn’t likely to keep my father up at night,” Alessandro said. “But he’s in New York,” Bree reminded him. “Geography, darling?” Alessandro asked amused. “You say that with such pride it scares me,” Bree said rolling her eyes. “I love you too,” Alessandro smiled. “But no. If he was, why let us go off on this whole journey?” “It’s Bernardo. If there’s something I’ve learned about your father it’s that the rules of logic don’t apply to him. Or any other kind of rules,” Bree added, “Maybe this is all some kind of big elaborate plan and we’re gonna go home and find out he’s been keeping Francesca and Adriano frozen in his basement in one of those sci-fi freezers that they say you can buy and use to come back to life in a hundred years.” Alessandro shook his head at her, not impressed with her sense of humour.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro watched as Luke burrowed his nose in the snow and then shook his small body. “Well, that depends on whether you want a male or a female horse.” “Mmm. I tink I want a boy horsie. Girl horsies have babies and dat’s too much trouble.” Alessandro bit back a laugh. “Male horse it is then. Let’s see. My favourite horse’s name is Abbott.” “A But?” Will asked laughing. “Abbott,” Alessandro corrected. “Chimney,” Will suddenly decided, stopping. Alessandro blinked in confusion. “I’m sorry, did you say ‘Chimney’?” “It make sense,” Will assured him. “Santa come down da chimney and he is my pesent, right? So his name be Chimney.” “I agree. Quite logical,” Alessandro nodded. “Well, dat one ting on my list. Der be more.” “Duly noted,” he said.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alex cornered her right before she was going to make an appointment at the nurse’s station to see him. “Bree, I’m going to be referring you to Carlo from now on,” Alex informed her. “I think in light of recent events it would be a conflict of interest for me to continue to be your doctor.” “Is that right?” Bree asked leaning her elbow on the counter and raising an eyebrow. “Yes, I wouldn’t feel comfortable about it considering what you did to Carrie.” “Aw, that’s nice,” Bree smiled sarcastically, staring up at his smug self-righteous face. “Nice to know this place has such moral upstanding doctors.” “Yes, so I will be referring you to him from now on,” Alex said, clenching his jaw. “Great,” Bree said, fighting not to roll her eyes. “Have a good afternoon,” he said curtly and turned to walk away. Don’t do it. Don’t do it, Bree. The evil Bree won though. “You too, Dr. Home Wrecker.” Alex’s step faltered but he didn’t turn around.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“I’m insatiable? I am?” Alessandro asked cocking an eyebrow as he ran his warm hands along the satin material covering her body. “Alessandro. You’re alive. I can touch you, look into your eyes and hear your arrogant English voice. We’re gonna spend the rest of our lives together, that’s plenty romantic for me.” Bree pressed her mouth against him. He tasted of coffee and peppermint. He nibbled slightly on her lower lip before pulling away. “Darling, that sounds lovely, but my wedding night fantasy was more along the lines of fucking you into the mattress.” Bree smacked his shoulder. “Patience, Dardano. Tonight we take things slow, the mattress fucking will come in time. Now, get on your back and let me put my hands on you and assure myself that you’re real.” Alessandro sighed but did as she ordered. “Now if you feel anything-” “I certainly hope so or we have a very big problem,” Alessandro joked. She smacked his chest. “If you feel any pain you let me know and we’ll stop.” “Says the woman who’s smacked me twice in the past five minutes,” Alessandro said, but his eyes were shining with amusement.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“She walked slowly towards him, taking in how he looked so eerily still. “Okay you,” she said, her voice choked. “We have to have a talk. I know you’re a Dardano, but a wedding reception in the ICU? Not so classy.” She lowered her head, her attempt at levity falling flat under the weight of her heartbreak. She blinked back her tears and cupped his face. “You listen to me, okay? You are not leaving me. You’re not allowed. You’re going to fight, understand? Alessandro, I will not bury another husband. Do you hear me? I refuse to grieve for you. That is not even an option because you are my life.” She kissed his forehead, the beeping of the heart monitor and the respirators the only sounds in the room. “Funny huh? I spent so much time pushing you away and here I am begging you to stay. Not just for me, but for our boys. Will’s already lost one father, don’t you leave him too. And Gianni…don’t you dare leave him nothing but stories about some man in a picture frame.” Bree took his hand, rubbing his ring finger. “Please, Alessandro. Fight. I won’t survive without you. I won’t.” She kissed his palm. “We’ve fought too hard for you to just give up when we’re finally going to be happy. Dammit Alessandro, you owe me! You owe me a life, a happy life together. So don’t you dare die on me. Don’t you leave me to deal with that son of a bitch father of yours by myself.” She covered her mouth with her free hand to stifle her sobs. She leaned down and kissed his still mouth. “I love you…I love you so much…” Her tears fell on his face as she rested her forehead against his.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“She met her father in the living room. “I'm begging you not to kill him.” Her father scowled at her. “This man is our sworn enemy. He has-” “I know who he is and I know what he's done. I also know he is Gianni's father, and in our hearts, he is Will's father. Will loves him.” “And you,” Jack snorted. She glared at her uncle. “This is not about me.” He was silent, but his disbelief was there in his eyes. Bree turned back to her father. “He did what he did on the order of his father. Even though I despise Bernardo, we all know that family is everything. It doesn't make it forgivable, but it does make it understandable. I'm begging you for Will's sake. Don't make him lose another father.” “She could be pregnant with his child,” Beth said softly, coming out of the kitchen. Bree gave a start. They hadn't been trying to conceive but it wasn't outside of the realm of possibility. She grabbed on to the lie. “I am.” Her father's mouth fell open and her uncle swore. She met her sister's gaze in gratitude. “That's right. I found out in Ireland that, yes, I'm pregnant again.” Beth gave her a tiny nod, acknowledging the lie. “Son of a…” Her father clenched his fists. “Don't leave this baby without a father, Daddy. Please.” John looked from her to her sister. “Untie the son of bitch and toss him on the street.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro burst out laughing and Bree wrapped her arms around his neck. “Don’t think about the past anymore. Let’s move forward and let’s be happy.” Alessandro cocked an eyebrow. “Is that an order, young lady?” “Yes, Sir. From this second on, you’re not allowed to think about how much we hurt each other and how stupid you were-“ “How stupid I-“ “Ah!” Bree pressed her fingers against his lips. “How stupid we both were.” “And what would the punishment be for disobeying such an order?” Alessandro asked, his fingers trailing down her back. “Oh it would be very bad,” Bree assured him playfully. “Very?” Alessandro asked, his eyes lit with amusement. “Oh yes. Brutal. Vicious even.” “Oh that does sound terrible,” Alessandro agreed. “There might even be whips,” Bree warned. “Oh dear,” Alessandro smiled.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“How could she even think what she’s thinking? Alessandro wondered silently as he watched Brianna glare pure murder at the misguided Gertie smiling up at him. Alessandro cocked an amused eyebrow and gave her a polite smile when he noticed the look on Brianna’s face. Didn’t she know that if it weren’t for all these people, Alessandro would drag her onto the bar and fuck her madly? As it was, his body had maintained its state of semi arousal for most of the morning and into this late afternoon. He was half-tempted to drag her into the nearest closet. And she was jealous. Alessandro wanted to laugh at the ridiculous notion. While he could still appreciate the beauty of young Gertie on an aesthetic level, Brianna really had ruined him for other women. If anything, the fact that she had carried his son in her body, given birth to his child, made his primal need and want of her all that more intense. Alessandro considered himself sophisticated and well-schooled in the ways of women and how to seduce them. With Brianna, he just wanted. Her strength, her heart, her passion, her courage, all coupled with a body that kept him hard as a rock for more time than was surely healthy, created the only woman he would ever love. Ever.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“She took one look at Alessandro and Bree and placed a hand on her chest. “Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Francesca, lass. Is that you?” And then she fainted. “Holy shit!” Bree rushed to the fallen nun's side, ignoring Sister McReady’s scowl of disapproval at her language. “Mommy! You killed da penguin lady!” Will cried out in surprise. Bree lightly slapped the old woman’s face and felt a rush of relief when the Mother Superior stirred. The last thing she needed on her conscience was a dead nun. The old woman’s blue eyes opened and anger filled them when her gaze shifted to Alessandro. “You. You spawn of the devil. Why don’t ye take yerself back where ye came from and leave our poor Francesca alone?” “Oh, Mother Superior, yer confused is all. Come now. On yer feet, mum,” Sister McReady said helping the old woman up. “Uh, I’m sorry. Sister. Francesca was my great aunt. My name is Bree.” “Bree? Jaysus but it’s a ridiculous resemblance it is,” the old woman panted, holding her chest. “And you?” She asked turning to Alessandro. “Of course yer not Adriano Dardano, of course but I’ll be a drunken fairy if yer not the spitting image of that demon of temptation, sent to corrupt our poor Francesca. Such a good girl she was,” Sister Brannigan murmured, tears filling her eyes. “Such a good girl.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series, trilogy
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“Bree stared down at Bernardo’s still form. The monitor was the only sound in the room apart from his deep breathing. Alessandro had gone down to the cafeteria with Will and Gianni to grab something to eat before they left for home. Bree lied and told him that she wanted to check in with Tina and her mother Roxanna for a few minutes before they left. Even unconscious, the son of a bitch was formidable and Bree felt nervous around him. “Why don’t you do everyone a favour and just die already?” Bree said. No response. Bree sneered and shook her head, turning to leave. “You could always smother me with a pillow,” a groggy voice said behind her, making her heart nearly stop. Bree whirled around wide-eyed and met Bernardo’s dark gaze. She forced herself to shrug and crossed her arms. “Do you think Alessandro would forgive you for murdering his father?” Bernardo asked. They both knew the answer to that.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree arched, trying to stretch out her muscles and Alessandro gave her a dirty look as if she was displaying herself to him on purpose. Well, maybe she was a little. Even though he blocked her from the hotel attendant’s gaze with his body in the doorway, Bree was sure to cover herself with the blanket. Alessandro turned around, pulling in the tray with him and his eyes flared hungrily as he looked down at her. “You look like a beautiful debauched angel,” he said, his voice rough with desire. “And you’re what, the demon that’s corrupted me?” Bree asked raising an eyebrow and letting the blanket fall down to her waist, baring her to him. “It’s my life’s work, you know?” Alessandro grinned, going down on to his knees and leaning over her. Bree placed a hand on his chest, halting him. “Is that coffee, I smell?” she asked. “The debauched angel is kind of hungry.” She bit her lip and smiled up at his frustrated face.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree nodded eagerly, anxious to see her friend again. “Oooh. I like that idea. Yeah. Let’s stay, Alessandro and then in the morning, we can have wine with our toast! Oh hey, that’s funny, huh. Wine, toast, get it?” Bree giggled. Oh wow. Her head was feeling really, really fuzzy. “Okay, let’s go to bed,” Alessandro said rising from the couch after he and Kevin finished discussing the plans for the vineyard in the coming year as well as the progress it had made thus far. Bree gasped. “Alessandro! We can’t have sex in someone else’s house!” Alessandro blushed and placed a hand on her back, leading her towards the stairs after wishing Hadley a good night. “It’s my house, darling,” he reminded her. “Oh well, that’s okay then, but you can’t be loud though cause that would still be rude,” Bree said, reaching down and squeezing Alessandro’s ass. Gosh, her hubby had a really nice tight ass. “Here we are,” he said, leading her into one of the mansion’s many bedrooms. “Alessandro, I hass…have…a little confestion to make,” Bree said leaning her head on his shoulder. “You do?” he asked placing her on the bed and bending down to remove her shoes. Bree lay back and stared up at the spinning ceiling. “Mmhm. I think…I’m ina...Little drunk bit.” “Really?” Alessandro asked with feigned surprise.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mobsters, series-romance, trilogy
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“A loud clang of what sounded like a tray hitting the marble kitchen floor made Bree jump and Gianni go wide eyed with apparent terror. He covered his ears and shook his head. “Bang! Bang! Bang!” He fell over and covered his head. Bree rushed over to him as he began shrieking fearfully. “Maaammaaaaaa!” “Is okay, Gianni. Just a ting falled down,” Will said patting Gianni’s back but Bree noticed her little boy’s hand was shaking. “It’s okay, sweetie. Mommy’s here. That’s okay,” she crouched down and gathered Gianni into her arms. “Bang! Mama. It bang!” he wailed into her shoulder, trembling in her arms. “It was just a loud noise. Cook just dropped something, probably a whole big plate of yucky beets. Isn’t that funny?” she said, forcing a laugh. Jesus Christ, how much more violence would her children be forced to endure? Again, Bree felt selfish for bringing her innocent babies into the Dardano world. Gianni looked up at her, picking up on her tone he gave a small watery smile. “Ucky ee “Yucky yucky beets,” Bree repeated bouncing him lightly as her heart returned to its normal rhythm in her chest. Gianni giggled and shuddered against her as the last remnants of his fear dissipated. Bree looked over at Will. “You okay, sweetie?” Will blinked and looked over at her, wide eyed and his lower lip quivered, but he set his chin like she knew he’d watched Alessandro do and nodded. “I bwave. I nod scared.” Bree smiled at him and kissed his cheek as she ran her fingers through his hair. “Wow. That is pretty brave. I know I was
scared when I first heard the noise.” “Really?” Will asked hesitantly. “Definitely,” Bree nodded. Gianni echoed the gesture. “Well, dat’s diffen. You’s a girl.” “Oh, is that so?” Bree asked setting Gianni on the blanket next to her. “So you think ’cause mommy’s a girl she’s a fraidy cat. Huh? Huh?” she asked poking him. Will curled in on himself and giggled as he tried to avoid her fingers.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Yeah, well, he’s having a hard time dealing, you know?” Bree asked uneasily. “That’s understandable. How are you coping?” he asked, reaching out and touching her arm. Gianni shifted in her arms and looked down at Colin’s hand. “It’s taking some getting used to. Let’s just say it’s a bit of a relief to take a break for a little while. I’m more worried about the kids though and this is affecting them so I’m hoping to get in to see Dr. Graham. She was a big help to Will a while back.” “Oh, yeah. I hear great things about her. You know she doesn’t just work with kids, right?” Bree narrowed her eyes but smiled in amusement. “Is that a hint?” “Not a very subtle one, I know. Hey Gianni, how you doing, huh? Wow, you’re sure getting big,” Colin remarked. “He sure is. He’s almost standing all by himself now, aren’t you, Gianni? You wanna show Colin?” Bree asked. “Nooo,” Gianni insisted, burying his face in Bree’s neck. “Oh, speaking of Mr. Cranky Pants, huh? He didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.” Gianni lifted his head and then looked down, and it was then that Bree noticed Colin still had his hand on her arm. “Dat,” Gianni said. Bree cleared her throat and took a step back, not wanting to make the movement seem like she was uncomfortable with Colin touching her.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Colin. Just the name made Alessandro’s gut burn. He knew the man wanted his wife, even if Brianna was too blind to see it. The moron had been cuckolded by the paragon of supposed virtue, his wife Carrie and now he had finally opened his eyes and seen what Alessandro had known all along. Brianna put every other woman in New York to shame. No woman could come near her beauty, her passion, her fire. Colin had tossed her aside for the angelic Carrie and now he was changing his mind. Oh no you don’t, you miserable fucker. “Her friend indeed,” Bernardo drawled, his Italian accent thick with unmistakable implication. “Dat’s da truth. He no make her cry all da time.” That was directed at Alessandro, with small dark accusatory eyes. “He nice.” Alessandro couldn’t look at those eyes without feeling a sickening pang of guilt. She’s mine! He wanted to scream. Mine! Mine! Mine! “Oh yes. Very nice. He was very nice when he held her at the cemetery and very nice when he was dancing with her at Adresca.” That made Alessandro’s head lift in surprise. “Oh yes, my boy. She’s been there, cleaning up the rubble and word is that she’s working on re-opening it. Her friend Colin has been quite helpful in that endeavour.” “I don’ like how you say dat,” Will said scowling. “Really young William, I only speak the truth,” Bernardo taunted. Alessandro’s mind was racing. NO! Not Colin. He could not let that imbecile take Brianna away from him. He’d have to be eliminated somehow. Alessandro began to plot all the different ways he could ensure that Colin Neally stayed away from his wife, permanently. They all involved grisly, violent methods. He could not be allowed to win Brianna.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“He grinned at her. “Well, then I have a bit of a confession to make. Colin said some things to me and the sound of his voice irritated me so I had one of those clowns with the big red noses in the paediatric wing turn him into a balloon animal. A giraffe I’m afraid. Sad fate it was,” Alessandro joked with no sign of remorse at all.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Not…” Bree struggled for the right words. “All my life, I’ve just wanted someone to put me first. I thought Alessandro was that man. But even after everything Bernardo has done, I mean, Arturo wouldn’t have ever shot Alessandro if Bernardo hadn’t raised him to be a monster, even knowing that, Alessandro refuses to cut his ties with his father. So…yeah, I guess I do blame Alessandro for getting shot. God, that sounds so horrible.” Bree covered her face with her hands again.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“The pain of it was crippling him. He couldn’t breathe. Be a man! Be a Dardano. Alessandro felt the protective wall shoot up around his heart in one quick instant. Dardanos weren’t weak and stupid like he had been. Dardanos didn’t let their emotions blind them. Love was for fools. Love made men stupid. But oh, she would never make him stupid again. Oh, how Alessandro would make his darling wife pay.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Will, was not as taken with the photo of the new baby as the grown ups around him. “It look like Mr. Potato Head.” “I’m sure your baby sister will appreciate that,” Alessandro said with a wry grin. “A girl? It’s a girl?” Will asked with a grimace. “That’s right,” Bree announced as Vanessa and Brian congratulated them. “I can play wif Gianni but what we gonna do wif a girl?” he asked, handing the picture back to them. “Nope, send it back
and get another boy dis time.”
― E. Jamie, The Betrayal
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, trilogy
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“Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am -- not stuck in the middle, but hovering above the entire farcical spectrum, weeping as I behold my fellow man's devotion to political illusion and self-destruction.”
― Robert Higgs
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, evil, freedom, gang, government, individualism, knowledge, libertarian, liberty, mafia, matrix, philosophy, politics, rationality, reason, self-knowledge, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, truth, useful-idiots, voluntaryism, voting
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“When people say 'let's do something about it', they mean 'let's get hold of the political machinery so that we can do something to somebody else.' And that somebody is invariably you.”
― Frank Chodorov
tags: aggression, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, statism, taxation, theft, voluntaryism
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“His eyes widened. “Pain? Darling, you haven’t yet experienced the pain I can inflict when I’ve been played for a fool. I’m in awe at your gall to try and fool me.”
Bree went still as panic froze her. Oh, God. No.
“Ah, the light bulb finally goes off,” he purred against her face; his voice low and
cold.
Even knowing who he was, and the family he came from, Bree could say that deep inside, she’d never felt any real fear of him.
She did now. He knew. The look on his face told her he knew that she had lied about him being her baby’s father. Frantically, she grasped for any foothold she could find. “I don’t know what you’re talking-“
“DON’T!” he snapped, grabbing the sides of her face.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“He’s lying to me, Bree thought. I don’t know how I know, but I do. And really, wasn’t it better if she didn’t know for sure? Bree moved closer to him and pressed her mouth to his, inhaling the strong, musky scent that seemed to be his alone. Like a mix of spiced wine, dark chocolate and warm leather. Bree eased her tongue in and ran it across his teeth as his fingers moved up her spine to cup her head and bring her closer.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-male, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Mmm,” Bree licked the ice cream scoop and tossed it into the sink. “Let’s just say that for the sake of the baby, Alessandro and I have reached a sort of…an...agreement, I guess.”
“Does that mean I can’t punch him anymore? ‘Cause that was fun.”
“Yes. It does. Sorry.”
“So are you two…”
“No. Hell no. Not after him using Rebecca Malford as a scratching post,” Bree grumbled, her stomach clenching tight at that little reminder.
“He’s what? Alessandro and that...viper?”
“That’s right.” Bree clenched her teeth.
“Rebecca and Alessandro? Oh my God. Mental bleach! I need mental bleach!” Meggie rubbed her temples.
“Yeah, keep doing that for another week and you might be where I am right about
now.”
“Oh, he’s a smooth one, that’s for sure,” Meggie said with a sudden smile.
“What’s with that look?”
“You’re so jealous,”
Bree snorted, turning away from her and taking a seat opposite of Will. “That’s ridiculous.”
“And so true.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, mafia, mob-romance, series, trilogy
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“You will never have to worry about safety. Being a Dardano will buy you all the security you’ll ever need.”
Bree shook her head and threw her hands up. “Being a Dardano will put the bulls eye on my back, you asshole,”
“Really, darling, once you become Mrs. Dardano, we’re going to have to work on cleaning up that saucy mouth of yours. At least in public,” Alessandro purred, tapping her nose.
Bree saw red. But she smiled at him. She took the plate from him and set it down on the vanity table. Then she took the vitamin shake, pulled out the waistband of his pants and poured it down inside.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Okay, someone’s been smoking the wacky tobacky. And keep your hands to yourself!” She smacked at his roving fingers, fighting the shivers following his touch. "I agreed to let you accompany me because, well...maybe you're right. We should try and put the animosity between our families-stop that!" She gripped his fingers and tried to twist them, but he easily pulled out of her grip.
Alessandro laughed. “Darling, I haven’t laughed in ages like I do when I’m with you. I propose a clean slate, eh?” He sighed and sat back against the seat. “Brianna. I’m not going to give up until you are mine. You could make this so much easier if you just accept the inevitable.” He lifted his hand to cup the side of her face. “We belong to each other, and you know it.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Last night, Bree had been taken. Thoroughly, utterly taken. Gently or roughly, it didn’t matter. This man had reached into the darkest part of her mind, had brought out and laid bare the desires she admitted to no one but herself in her most secret, quiet moments. Her hunger had been allowed to run free. There’d been no guilt, no remorse. Nothing was ‘wrong’. And God, the feeling of freedom was damned addictive. What did that say about her? How could she love Michael, yet give a part of her she’d never felt comfortable sharing with Michael to this stranger.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“He took a step back and stared down at her, and she watched the cold mask slowly slip back over his face. “So…that’s it? You just decide I’m not good enough to be with and-“
“Oh, Alessandro no! You know that’s not-“
“Well, let me tell you something, if you think you’re going to keep me away from my baby-“
“No,” Bree promised. “You can see him anytime you want…at my apartment.”
He laughed bitterly and sniffled. “You know something ironic, Brianna? You’re probably the only woman who could have turned me into that man that you deem worthy of your love,” Alessandro walked towards the door and opened it.
“Daddy?” a small voice called out.
Both Alessandro and Bree turned to Will wearing identically stunned expressions.
“Can you stay wif me ‘till I go sleep ‘gain?”
Alessandro choked on a sob and left the room, slamming the door behind him.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“His scowl deepened. “If he wanted to hurt Will, he could have easily come here when I was at work, but no, he respected your feelings, and he allowed us to come together in our own time.”
“As opposed to what? Dragging me up by my hair to the altar?” Bree asked.
“Well that was his suggestion. I suggested a more diplomatic approach.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Alessandro gathered her into his arms and flipped her over so that she was on top of him, her blonde hair falling over him like a gold curtain. The strands tickled his face as she righted herself over him. She caught her lower lip between her teeth as he pushed up inside of her, and Alessandro reached up, bringing her mouth down, wanting to taste that swollen lip. Her breath wafted over his face, and he grabbed her hips, pulling her down as he pushed up deeper, wanting to fill her to her very soul.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Father, perhaps you’ve forgotten the fact that when my child was conceived, neither Bree nor I knew who the other person was.”
“Ai, ai, ai… Alessandro, open your mind, please! It was fate, my boy.”
“Oh, good God, here we go again,” Arturo threw his hands up.
“Don’t you have a puppy to go kick?” Alessandro asked, his brother’s voice grating on his already stretched nerves.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro shrugged and pushed the blade in, dragging it down the man’s skin, making him cry out. He struck him again with his fist, blood spurting onto Alessandro as well. “Did Arturo tell you that the mother of my child was in that limo? She’s carrying my baby inside of her, and that her son was in the limo too? I’m sure he did. I’m sure he left explicit instructions as to who exactly you were supposed to dispose of, didn’t he?”
“He’ll kill me. I swear, he’ll kill me,” the man cried, tears mixing in with his
blood.
“Next, I’ll take an eye, you snivelling little shit!” Alessandro growled, raising his bloody blade to the man’s left eyeball. The unmistakable scent of urine filled the air.
Alessandro stepped back in disgust and turned to Jason and his other man, Marty, two of the best Dardano soldiers, loyal and efficient. They took his cue and slipped on their brass knuckles.
“Just say the words, ol’ boy, and we’ll stop this,”
“Fuck you,” the man shouted.
Alessandro smirked. “Such defiance for a man who just pissed himself.” He crossed his arms as Marty and Jason went to work.
It only took a minute. “All right. Okay! Stop! Stop! Fine, I’ll talk!”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“I understand Mrs. Donovan is a free woman, Mr. Dardano. It’s all for a good cause after all, isn’t it?”
“Fifty thousand dollars,” Alessandro countered, deadly calm though inside he was fairly trembling with rage.
“One hundred thousand dollars,” Hadley countered, getting to his feet, appearing to enjoy the spectacle of all eyes being on the two of them now.
Alessandro stood, his fists clenched tight at his sides. “Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,”
Bree was staring at them both, her mouth open.
Kevin smiled at him. “Three hundred thousand dollars,”
“One million dollars,” Alessandro shot back, his eyes clouding with rage. So help him, if the son of a bitch opened his mouth, Alessandro was gonna shove his fist down his throat.
The entire ballroom was dead silent. Holding its breath.
“Uh…Going once?” Alex announced.
Kevin met Alessandro’s gaze, smirking.
“Going twice?”
Kevin lifted his hands in surrender. “The best man won. I hope you get more than a dance, my friend,”
“Sold,” Alex announced, slamming the little gavel down.
Alessandro felt a rush of both victory and relief as he stared at Brianna. He walked up to her and extended his hand. “Darling?”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Mommy, how come Dona Duck don have no pants?” Will sat on the couch eating cookies. Bree looked up. Then she glanced at the Donald Duck cartoon on the TV. “He have top but he no have bottoms,”
“Good point,” she said. And yet the duck always wore a towel after he showered.
“Dat’s odd,” Will remarked. He leaned over his plate and began to split his cookies into two piles. “And where his pee pee go? He a boy right, mommy? But he don’ have no pee pee. How he go to bafroom?”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“They stared at each other, and Alessandro seriously considered turning away from his father’s wishes and just taking this woman and running off somewhere with her. He could imagine being happy with her. He felt free, easy. The feeling was heady. But dangerously so. He could never just toss aside his father’s demands that way, even if he wanted to. There would be too much at stake.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Bree rubbed her belly. Figured; Alessandro wasn’t one to live in quiet but strained tension. She stared up at the fabric of the canopy and then squeezed her eyes shut. “Alessandro, considering that the outside world has the sterile hospital rooms, not to mention the epidurals, yeah. For goodness sake, Alessandro. You know we can’t stay here forever. I’m entering my eighth month here.”
“I must say, I’m surprised you’re so anxious to leave.”
“Why?” Bree asked, turning to look at his strong profile.
“You know why, Brianna. As soon as we walk out that door, you and I are over.”
Bree felt a guilty tightening in her chest.
“Perhaps that’s what you want, though.”
“That’s not fair,” Bree whispered even as she feared he was right. No. He’s wrong. I love him. She wasn’t going to let anyone shake what she and Alessandro had built here. She’d let her family know that she wanted Alessandro in her life and that she wanted to be a family with him. “Thanks for your confidence in me, though. Really.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Bree shot to her feet and glared at him.
“Look all you want, Brianna. That was the deal, remember? Until Arturo is found, I’m not leaving you alone.”
Alessandro stared down at her with immovable stubbornness.
“How am I gonna explain you to my grandfather? And what if the rest of my family is there?”
“Hello O’Reiley family, you remember Alessandro, the father of my child, the man that I love, the light of my life, ma raison d'être…”
“Are you done?” Bree asked cocking an eyebrow.
“Depends, are you quite ready to go? Look, you can explain that I’m there for answers too. My father’s involvement in this vendetta directly influences my own future and that of my child.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“Well, banks are the biggest mafia, you know, except for the government of course.”
― Kenneth Eade, Predatory Kill
tags: banks, corruption, government, mafia
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“Mmmmmnobaconeggsgottagostore…” She slowly ran her hand down his forearm and gave him a sleepy smile as she sat up. Her eyes remained closed as she rested her hand on his shoulder and before he could realize her intention or even remember his manners and stop her, her mouth was on his in a kiss that was so soft and sweet Alessandro could do nothing but fall into it with her.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, romance, series-romance, trilogy
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“Alessandro! Will!!” He could hear Brianna’s voice a few seconds before his head came up through to the next floor.
Stubborn, bloody woman! he cursed.
“Oh God, Will!” Bree screamed. “What happened?” She rushed towards them, coughing as she grabbed for her son. He shifted his weight to hand him over to her, but the movement sent another bolt of screaming pain from his ankle up to his leg and Alessandro lost his footing, falling back into the basement.
Alessandro!” Bree screamed, and then he heard no more.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“That’s our clue. I know where he is now.” Alessandro said, pulling her away from the dead fish.
“A dead fish means…what? The docks?” Bree asked.
Alessandro gave her a small smile. “You’re as smart as you are exquisite, my darling.”
“I’m sorry. A crazy man has my son. Could we get a move on now?” Bree pushed him towards the door.
“Forgive me, darling. Old habits.”
Bree rolled her eyes, but she was grateful for the brief, light moment. It allowed her to regroup and focus, to lift her head from the haze of panic that gripped her thus far.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“My, my, and you accuse the Dardanos of trying to run the world. As you so succinctly put it, you have no desire to be a part of my life, which means you have no say in where I choose to live, sunshine. I, on the other hand, made no such declaration.”
“God, I hate you,” Bree seethed.
Alessandro smiled and tapped the end of her nose playfully, resisting the urge to tear her thick coat off of her and take her right against the wall. “You keep telling yourself that, love. We both know better.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Bree crossed her arms over her protruding belly. “I’m fine. No one has shot at me in the last twenty four hours, and my family is talking to me again. Things are looking up.”
He grimaced at the mention of her family. “How fortunate for you.”
Bree narrowed her eyes at him, picking up on the derogatory tone. “Well, you should know all about the importance of family. You’d do anything for yours, right? Bernardo says jump, you ask ‘how high?’ “
Alessandro felt a sick twist of guilt in his chest, “Well, congratulations, Brianna. You’ve worked very hard for the title of O’Reiley doormat. I hope it’s all you’ve ever wanted. I hope you’re happy.”
“Blissfully,” Bree shot back and turned on her heel, leaving him there filled with anger and regret.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“I know. You’re a male escort, and you were on your way to your latest…what are female clients called? Not Johns…Jean’s?”
He choked on his cracker, and Bree reached over and patted his back until his coughing fit passed. “Afraid not, darling.” He wheezed.
“Male stripper?”
He snorted. “I don’t know if I should be flattered or insulted by that.”
“Some kind of business tycoon, right?” Bree asked. “A pretty Donald Trump?”
“Pretty? Oh dear.”
Bree raised her hands. “Handsome. Handsome. Better?”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“She realized he wasn’t listening to music and gave him a curious look of amusement as she picked up the cover to an audio book. ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting.’
God forgive me, I love this man.
“Thought I should be informed, you know?” Alessandro explained sheepishly.
Bree tried to tear her gaze away from his gleaming chest.
“Plus all the lactating and dilating and placenta talk does wonders to crush any man’s libido.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“We have nothing!” Bree reached out and slapped him with all her might. He couldn’t know the baby she carried was his. Not ever.
Alessandro’s dark eyes flashed angrily at her for a split second, making Bree’s insides tense in anticipation of his rage, but then he smiled at her, his hand going to her thigh. “Well, I was hoping we’d get to know each other a little better before delving into S & M, but I’m game if you are, sunshine.”
“I want you to get out,”
“And I want you naked screaming my name, now that you know it,” Alessandro growled, leaning in so that his breath brushed across her face in a tantalizing caress.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Lies. All lies. Bree was shaking so hard she bit her tongue, but she didn’t even feel the blood in her mouth.
Kill her husband and seduce the widow. She thought she’d never felt as angry as when Michael died, but this, oh God, her entire body was a live wire of rage. She was so
furious, she was almost numb. So numb that she didn’t even feel herself reaching for the gun she had pulled out of the glove compartment and pocketed.
So numb that she didn’t feel herself lift the gun and aim.
So numb that she saw nothing, but his eyes, staring back at her in wide eyed surprise and confusion.
She felt so numb she didn’t even feel herself pull the trigger.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“He lowered his head and shook it from side to side, giving her a rueful smile. “I find it so ironic that someone I think of as sometimes so brave to the point of stupidity could be so terrified of her own happiness,”
Bree felt the shot hit home, and she couldn’t look at him. She ran her finger along the marble topped of the island. “That’s ridiculous. Who in their right mind is afraid of being happy?”
“Someone who has lost too much,” he moved slowly towards her in gentle careful strides as if he was afraid of startling her.
Fair enough, she did tend to attack him when he tried to corner her, but for some reason, Bree just couldn’t tonight. The much too relaxing bubble bath must be making her sluggish.
“Someone who is so used to being told she caused too much pain to others to ever be worthy of happiness herself,”
Bree closed her eyes. “Shut up. Please, Alessandro.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-hero, erotic-romance, gangster-hero, mafia, mob, series, trilogy
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“I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.”
― Patricia Bellomo, The Prince of Mafia Princes
tags: crime-thriller, mafia, mafia-fiction, organized-crime
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“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”
― Rose Wilder Lane
tags: anarchy, ancap, fascism, freedom, individualism, libertarian, liberty, mafia, philosophy, politics, state, statism, taxation, theft, tyranny, voluntaryism
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“What makes anyone think that government officials are even trying to protect us? A government is not analogous to a hired security guard. Governments do not come into existence as social service organizations or as private firms seeking to please consumers in a competitive market. Instead, they are born in conquest and nourished by plunder. They are, in short, well-armed gangs intent on organized crime. Yes, rulers have sometimes come to recognize the prudence of protecting the herd they are milking and even of improving its ‘infrastructure’ until the day they decide to slaughter the young bulls, but the idea that government officials seek to promote my interests or yours is little more than propaganda—unless, of course, you happen to belong to the class of privileged tax eaters who give significant support to the government and therefore receive in return a share of the loot.”
― Robert Higgs
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, communism, fascism, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, theft, voluntaryism
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“She was mine. She was all fucking mine.I was the king of the jungle, and the woman beside me was my queen.”
― J.J. McAvoy, Ruthless People
tags: king, mafia, queen, ruler
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“Everything I do is for her, for Fallon.”
― Soraya Naomi, For Fallon
tags: intense, mafia, romantic-suspense
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“In the end… he would choose Campisi.
In the end… she would choose Abandonato.
In the end… there would be bloodshed.”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Elicit
tags: blood, bloodlines, eagle, elicit, elite, fight, mafia, mafia-princess
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“When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.”
― Jeffrey Tucker
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, commerce, free-markets, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, trade, violence, voluntaryism
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“A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.”
― Russell Baker
tags: corruption, crime, criminal, criminals, humor, hypocrisy, immoral, immorality, mafia, moral, morality, organized-crime, politicians, politics, religion
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“Seth swallowed and all sorts of cramps ran through his stomach. He’d call them ‘butterflies’, but with Dom they were moths at best. Just as lively, but uncomfortable in daylight, creatures of the night, like Seth’s lust for Dom.”
― K.A. Merikan, Guns n' Boys: Book 1, Part 1
tags: gay-romance, mafia
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“Thomas,” the boss said. “How’s your father doing?” “He’s good, Sal.” Always the family questions first. That was Sal Demenci’s style. He could be about to whack someone and he’d ask how the guy’s sister was doing in school.”
― Gary Ponzo, A Touch of Deceit
tags: funny, mafia, manners, mobster
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“There are two and only two ways that any economy can be organized. One is by freedom and voluntary choice—the way of the market. The other is by force and dictation—the way of the State.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, association, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, communism, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, socialism, statism, taxation, theft, voluntaryism
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“The very term ‘public utility’ … is an absurd one. Every good is useful ‘to the public,’ and almost every good … may be considered ‘necessary.’ Any designation of a few industries as ‘public utilities’ is completely arbitrary and unjustified.”
― Murray N. Rothbard
tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, force, freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, socialism, socialized, state, statism, taxation, theft, violence, voluntaryism
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“The instant that any government obtains a monetary printing press, it becomes a deeply dishonest government, empowered to rob people by stealth. A government with the power to print money knows no limits.”
― Jeffrey Tucker
tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-economics, austrian-school-of-economics, collectivism, free-market, freedom, gang, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nap, non-aggression-principle, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, subjugation, taxation, theft, thieves, violence, voluntaryism
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“Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.”
― Angelika Rust, Once A Rat
tags: fantasy, fiction, mafia, novel, suspense, thieves
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“Some people did business with me because they wanted to get close to me, others did business with me because they were afraid to say no.”
― Larry Formato, Connected
tags: mafia, mob, stock-market, stocks
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“She moved to get up, but the man held her down as her car exploded next.
Bree lifted her head and looked back at the wall of fire behind them. “Well. We’re well and truly screwed now.”
― E. Jamie, The Vendetta
tags: alpha-male-romance, erotic-romance, gangster, mafia, mob, series-romance, trilogy
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“Tell him, Cosa Nostra says, HELLAO!”
― Waheed Ibne Musa, Johnny Fracture
tags: italian-mafia, mafia, mafia-mob, mobsters
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“perfection is archieved , not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”
― Carlo Gambino
tags: mafia
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“Comme l'impôt est obligatoire pour tous, qu'ils votent ou non, une large proportion de ceux qui votent le font sans aucun doute pour éviter que leur propre argent ne soit utilisé contre eux; alors que, en fait, ils se fussent volontiers abstenus de voter, si par là ils avaient pu échapper ne serait-ce qu'à l'impôt, sans parler de toutes les autres usurpations et tyrannies du gouvernement. Prendre le bien d'un homme sans son accord, puis conclure à son consentement parce qu'il tente, en votant, d'empêcher que son bien ne soit utilisé pour lui faire tort, voilà une preuve bien insuffisante de son consentement à soutenir la Constitution. Ce n'est en réalité aucunement une preuve.
Puisque tous les hommes qui soutiennent la Constitution en votant (pour autant qu'il existe de tels hommes) le font secrètement (par scrutin secret), et de manière à éviter toute responsabilité personnelle pour l'action de leurs agents ou représentants, on ne saurait dire en droit ou en raison qu'il existe un seul homme qui soutienne la Constitution en votant.
Puisque tout vote est secret (par scrutin secret), et puisque tout gouvernement secret est par nécessité une association secrète de voleurs, tyrans et assassins, le fait général que notre gouvernement, dans la pratique, opère par le moyen d'un tel vote prouve seulement qu'il y a parmi nous une association secrète de voleurs, tyrans et assassins, dont le but est de voler, asservir et -- s'il le faut pour accomplir leurs desseins -- assassiner le reste de la population. Le simple fait qu'une telle association existe ne prouve en rien que "le peuple des Etats-Unis", ni aucun individu parmi ce peuple, soutienne volontairement la Constitution.
Les partisans visibles de la Constitution, comme les partisans visibles de la plupart des autres gouvernements, se rangent dans trois catégories, à savoir: 1. Les scélérats, classe nombreuse et active; le gouvernement est pour eux un instrument qu'ils utiliseront pour s'agrandir ou s'enrichir; 2. Les dupes -- vaste catégorie, sans nul doute, dont chaque membre, parce qu'on lui attribue une voix sur des millions pour décider ce qu'il peut faire de sa personne et de ses biens, et parce qu'on l'autorise à avoir, pour voler, asservir et assassiner autrui, cette même voix que d'autres ont pour le voler, l'asservir et l'assassiner, est assez sot pour imaginer qu'il est "un homme libre", un "souverain"; assez sot pour imaginer que ce gouvernement est "un gouvernement libre", "un gouvernement de l'égalité des droits", "le meilleur gouvernement qu'il y ait sur terre", et autres absurdités de ce genre; 3. Une catégorie qui a quelque intelligence des vices du gouvernement, mais qui ou bien ne sait comment s'en débarrasser, ou bien ne choisit pas de sacrifier ses intérêts privés au point de se dévouer sérieusement et gravement à la tâche de promouvoir un changement.
Le fait est que le gouvernement, comme un bandit de grand chemin, dit à un individu: "La bourse ou la vie." Quantité de taxes, ou même la plupart, sont payées sous la contrainte d'une telle menace.”
― Lysander Spooner, Outrage À Chefs D'état ;Suivi De Le Droit Naturel
tags: anarchisme, anarchy, gouvernement, libertaire, libertarian, libertarien, liberté, mafia, philosophie, statism, theft, thugs, vol, voleurs, état
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“N'importe quel groupe de scélérats, pourvu qu’ils aient assez d'argent pour l'entreprendre, peuvent décider qu'ils sont un gouvernement; car, pourvu qu'ils aient de l'argent, ils peuvent engager des soldats, et utiliser ces soldats pour extorquer davantage d'argent, et ainsi contraindre tout le monde à obéir à leurs volontés.”
― Lysander Spooner, Outrage À Chefs D'état ;Suivi De Le Droit Naturel
tags: anarchisme, anarchiste, etat, freedom, french, gouvernenemt, impots, libertarian, libertarien, liberty, liberté, mafia, taxation, theft, thugs, vol
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“Le fait est que le gouvernement, comme un bandit de grand chemin, dit à un individu: "La bourse ou la vie." Quantité de taxes, ou même la plupart, sont payées sous la contrainte d'une telle menace.”
― Lysander Spooner, Outrage À Chefs D'état ;Suivi De Le Droit Naturel
tags: anarchisme, anarchy, gouvernement, impots, libertaire, libertarian, libertarien, mafia, statism, taxation, theft, thugs, vol, voleurs
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“Nicky turned and bolted. He’d only had about a thirty foot head start and a few were closing ground on him quickly. He cursed his hundred-dollar shoes and his vanity. The shoes looked great, but were definitely not made for running, nor was the suit he was wearing. He vowed that if he made it out of there alive, he’d only wear sneakers and track suits for the rest of his days. "Of course, I’ll probably be laughed out of the mob, but I don’t care at this point.”
― Ian McClellan, One Undead Step
tags: gangsters, mafia, mob, moon-landing, moon-landing-conspiracy-theories, sneakers, track-suits, zombie-apocalypse, zombies
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“Chi sostiene un sistema schiavistico non si ferma mai a riflettere su come egli stesso potrebbe diventarne vittima.”
― Ludwig von Mises
tags: anarchia, anarco, anti, capitalismo, citazione, comunismo, economia, furto, governo, italian, libertà, mafia, schiavitù, scuola-austriaca, socialismo, statalismo, tassazione, volontarismo
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“Kitalifa ni utiifu kamili, woga, umbali (kwa maana ya kuwa mbali na biashara ya mamafia wengine mpaka kwa makubaliano maalumu) na nidhamu ya kutoshirikiana na mamlaka zote za serikali. Ukishtakiwa kwa kosa la madawa au ujambazi ambalo hukufanya, utatumikia kifungo mpaka mwisho bila kushirikiana na polisi (kwa maana ya kutaja aliyehusika au waliohusika na uhalifu huo) hata kama aliyehusika au waliohusika hana au hawana uhusiano wowote na Kolonia Santita. Falsafa ya Kitalifa ni Sheria ya Kitalifa ya Kiapo cha Swastika cha Kolonia Santita. Na adhabu ya kuvunja sheria hiyo ni kifo.”
― Enock Maregesi
tags: adhabu, allegiance, authority, biashara, business, case, crime, criminality, discipline, distance, falsafa, fear, government, kesi, kifungo, kitalifa, kolonia-santita, mafia, mamlaka, nidhamu, philosophy, police, polisi, punishment, sentence, serikali, uhalifu, ujambazi, umbali, woga
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“Domenico had that ‘look-at-me I’ve-got-money’ attitude about him. A proper nouveau riche. In combination with his pig-like table manners at home, it was a sight to behold.”
― K.A. Merikan, Guns n' Boys: Book 1, Part 1
tags: gay-romance, mafia
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“Cry Wolf' is a hard-boiled thriller written at break-neck pace of political corruption and organised, very violent crime.”
― Mike Ripley
tags: crime-thriller, italy, mafia, umbria
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“Seth rubbed his nose against Dom’s shoe in a silent plea. The leather was so soft. So unlike Dom’s heart.”
― K.A. Merikan, Guns n' Boys: Book 1, Part 1
tags: gay-romance, mafia
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“A little of this caviar finds its way to the fish restaurants around Istanbul's Taksim Square, but the bulk is sent on to the United Arab Emirates to be enjoyed by wealthy Westerners and Arabs in the preposterous hotels that have set new standards in unnecessary opulence.”
― Misha Glenny, McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime
tags: caviar, crime, eastern-europe, mafia, wealth
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“You’d better be sure about this because this,” he pointed at Nora, then at Tony, “will start a war.”
― Christian Ferreti -- Mafia Princess
tags: mafia, mafia-princess, mob, romance
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“And the single action scam was dispensing cash like water gushing down Niagara Falls.”
― Joe Bruno
tags: mafia, mobsters, niagara-falls, racketeering
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“How many times do I have to tell you? We are not gangsters!”
― Peter Cimino, The Four Corners, a Sicilian Story
tags: irony, mafia
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“Vladimir leaned forward. “Never dilute vodka. Is sin.”
― Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior
tags: bar, crime, fbi, grant-madsen, mafia, mob-boss, romance, romantic-suspense, russian, the-conduct-series, undercover, vodka
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“I’m going to make you feel so good,” I swore to her, “that you’re going to not just scream my name, but forget yours.”
― Shay Savage, Uncockblockable
tags: crime, dirty-talk, evan-arden, mafia, mob, nick-wolfe, sex, sexy-humor
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“The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”
― David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
tags: communist-party, corruption, mafia, russian-politics, soviet-union
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“We assassinate. We don't accessorize. But I understand how it is possible to confuse the two.”
― Angelika Rust, A Rat for a Rat
tags: crime, fantasy, humor, mafia
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“I didn’t marry the mob; I was born into it.”
― Shay Savage, Uncockblockable
tags: crime, evan-arden, mafia, mob, nick-wolfe
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“When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station”
― James Patterson, Kill Me If You Can
tags: james-patterson, killer, mafia, russian
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“Groaning, he gripped his fists in the wild stuff. “Contessa.God, Contessa.”
She straightened, changing the angle, changing the pleasure. She shook her hair back and undulated. She was a contessa.A princess.No,a queen.”
― Christie Ridgway, An Offer He Can't Refuse
tags: countessa, italian, love, mafia, queen
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“Her recoil confirmed the disgust Grant felt inside. Who was he kidding, trying to put Vladimir and Andrei behind bars? He was no different from his father. Then he remembered Sophie’s words.
“You’re not like them. You’re my McSailor.”
A soft touch made him smile, thinking of Bonnie, before he realized it was Innochka’s hand stroking his face. The touch of a mobster’s girlfriend. He leaped back, still crouched on his feet.”
― Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior
tags: bonnie-and-clyde, crime, fbi, grant-madsen, mafia, mcsailor, prison, romance, romantic-suspense, russian, sophie-taylor, the-conduct-series, undercover
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“I thought it had a very compelling opening, and after a couple of pages, I had that feeling of 'I'm in good hands,' and eager to see where this is going. I felt lots of intrigue, stakes, and conflict right from the outset, with a clear, terse writing style that drew me in right away.
--Erik Bork, Emmy Award winning screenwriter, Band of Brothers.”
― Robert Child, Blood Betrayal
tags: band-of-brothers, mafia
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“By connecting Oswald to several parts of the JFK–Almeida coup plan, those working for Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli could ensure that when Oswald surfaced as the main suspect, the CIA and other agencies would have to cover up much information to protect the coup plan—which is exactly what happened”
― Lamar Waldron, The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century
tags: conspiracy, mafia, politics
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“Are they Russian by way of the Ozarks?”
― Alexa Land, Way Off Plan
tags: hilarious, inbreeding, kissing-cousins, mafia, russian
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“I put fear into the eyes of a member of the Mafia. I’m doing well, she thought, now keep him scared.”
― Wendy Ely, Dangerous Flames
tags: crime, mafia, mafia-hearts, romantic-suspense
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“Okay, I’ve got the hidden microphones with GPS here,” Agent Bounter said. “Let’s get one on you.”
“Now, sir?”
“The Russians are on the radar. It’s time.”
As Bounter turned to pick up the tiny button-size microphone, Grant clenched his hands into fists, his anticipation building.
It’s time.”
― Jennifer Lane, On Best Behavior
tags: crime, family-drama, fbi, grant-madsen, love, mafia, prison, romance, romantic-suspense, russian, the-conduct-series, undercover, wired
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