“I told myself this was going to be strictly business.

I thought it was going to be easy.

I’m a patient man…but you’re pushing the very limits of my self restraint, lass…”

“‘Kiss me like that again,’ I promised,

‘And I will surgically remove your balls and send them back to Ireland.'”

“My fighting skills come second only to my sense of self-preservation…after my good looks, of course.”

“He tasted like sin and trouble…I wanted more.”

“Tommy was a fighter and a liar and a son of a bitch, but as he held me in his arms and kissed me, I couldn’t help but think that maybe, just maybe, I was falling for him.”

“Love. Whatever it was a person had inside them that allowed it, whatever organ responisble for that kind of vulnerability, I didn’t possess it. My heart was nothing more than an inanimate lump of muscle, existing solely for the purpose of pumping blood throughout my body. Love did not factor anywhere into its function.”

“I’m not a thief by nature. I worked hard to get good grades, and I paid my own way through college. Partied, yes, but always under the radar. Growing up in the Mafia taught me that. I’ve never gotten so much as a parking ticket. But I was not about to walk out of there without my tips.

You don’t mess with a Moretti.”

“There are moments in our lives that, when standing at the end and looking back, we wish we could have frozen time forever, preserved in perfect, crystalline form for eternity.

This was one of those moments.”