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Life is Beautiful
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
You mean there’s someone out there better than your father? (Quills) No, idiot. My father trained him. Just FYI, my father is also his godfather. So you want to be real nice to Dev. All of us take it personally when people aren’t. (Adron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Born of Ice (The League: Nemesis Rising, #3; The League: Nemesis Legacy, #2))
A man’s first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
After all, I need to be a godfather slash uncle. I think the term is ‘guncle’.” “Guncle?” “Abbreviated, ‘gay uncle’.
Sean Kennedy (Tigerland (Tigers and Devils, #2))
When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us – we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against misfortune.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
The man who plays alone never loses.’ ” Guiliano
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
As bread is sweet to us,” he said, “so is the blood of the poor to the rich who drink it.” It
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.” That’s from the original Godfather,
Stephen King (Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2))
A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
he sells the souls in his keeping to the devil.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
the Don never held a grudge that impaired his future profits.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
Again it was like the English he so much admired, those people who could be so subtly rude that you basked in their insults for days before you realized they had mortally wounded you.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
The government in Rome with its legal forms demanded the truth. The priest in the confessional box commanded the truth under pain of everlasting hell. But truth was a source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
truth was a source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
they would never shame a statue of the Virgin Mary, but in the hot blood of vendetta they would shotgun the Pope himself for breaking omerta,
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Always remember that and live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Mafia,” in Arabic, means a place of sanctuary, and the word took its place in the Sicilian language when the Saracens ruled the country in the tenth century
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
A belief in one’s own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one’s cunning.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
That is Sicily,” the Don said. “There is always treachery within treachery.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Don Croce immediately led him into the garden, for like all Sicilians he ate his meals out of doors when he could.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
He said to the cardinal, "I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
I mean, you should see me,' he said. 'I do not look like some alpha-male rapist. I look like a twerp. I am a twerp. ... I weep during Godfather 2. Every time.' 'Fredo?' I asked. 'Fredo, man, yeah. Poor Fredo.
Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
I made decaf,” he said. “Caffeine isn’t good for you.” “Thank you, Mama Lane.” He made a face at her. “Tate and I used to share everything. Let him go off in a snit. I’ll share his baby. If he doesn’t come back, I’ll appropriate it, and you.” “That’s one area where all your commando skills will fail, dear man,” she said affectionately. “I like you very much, and you can be baby’s godfather. But I’m raising this child myself.” “Godfather.” He was savoring the word when the toast popped up. “Bad choice of words,” she murmured. “I wouldn’t want to give you any bad ideas. I don’t want my child outfitted in a fedora and a machine gun.” “Commando godfathers are a different breed.” “Black bags and camo gear aren’t much better,” she informed him. “Spoilsport. Where’s your sense of adventure?” “Hanging in the shower trying to dry out.
Diana Palmer (Paper Rose (Hutton & Co. #2))
Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
Bury Me Deep, Megan Abbott Red Baker, Robert Ward Ghost Story, Peter Straub The Getaway, Jim Thompson The Godfather, Mario Puzo Suggested Viewing Misery (1990) The King of Comedy (1982) A Place in the Sun (1951) I Want to Live! (1958) The Wire, season 2
Laura Lippman (Dream Girl)
They exploit, and deal, and shift ground constantly, but for all that you can get used to them. You can get used to their gleaming company towers and their nanocopter security, their cartels and their HOGs, their stretched-over-centuries unhuman patience and their assumed inheritance of godfather status for the human race. You can get so you're grateful for the there-but-for-the-grace-of-God relief of whatever little flange of existence they afford you on the corporate platform. You can get so it seems eminently preferable to a cold gut-swooping drop into the human chaos waiting below. You can get so you're grateful. Got to watch out for that.
Richard K. Morgan (Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2))
He reminded him that whatever sins were committed here on earth, no man must forget that eternal forgiveness awaited him if he were a proper Christian.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
The promised reward of heaven is too far away, men must have some pleasure now. God will forgive them.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
My only business is to save souls in danger of hell. What a man does is his own business.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
The cruel things a mother tells a daughter live until the daughter’s dying breath. They often are a daughter’s dying breath.
Mark Winegardner (The Godfather's Revenge (The Godfather Returns Book 2))
The trick with women is knowing when to just let them talk.
Mark Winegardner (The Godfather's Revenge (The Godfather Returns Book 2))
My only point is that it’s also possible once in a while to do everything right and still have things go wrong.
Mark Winegardner (The Godfather's Revenge (The Godfather Returns Book 2))
There has never in human history been a culture where optimism and cynicism existed side by side on such a scale as this, not even ancient Rome.
Mark Winegardner (The Godfather's Revenge (The Godfather Returns Book 2))
The Communists and Socialists, those misguided liberals, must be fought against, and that takes money.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Ah, Sicily, Sicily, he thought, you destroy your best and bring them to dust.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Why couldn’t he get a straight answer from any of them? Because this was Sicily, he thought. Sicilians had a horror of truth.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
though Italy governed Sicily, no true Sicilian felt he was an Italian.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
checked the bins in the holy relic workshop
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
All Sicilians are good eaters, when there is food to be had, and one of the few jokes people dared to make about Don Croce was that he would rather eat well than kill an enemy.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
The fabulous land where there was justice for the poor, where the government was not the lackey of the rich, where the penniless Sicilians rose to riches simply by good honest labor.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
At one of these shrines, Michael saw a woman on her knees praying, her husband sitting in their donkey-drawn cart guzzling a bottle of wine. The donkey's head dropped like a martyr's.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather #2))
Nothing you’ve just told us changes how I feel about you. You’re my brother, always were, always will be.” Oswald flinched. “You still want me for Archie’s godfather?” he asked quietly. “Don’t be a fool,” growled Mason. “Of course I bloody do!” “You’re not getting out of that just by being a stone-cold killer,” muttered Roland. “In fact, that probably helps qualify you for the job.
Alice Coldbreath (His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2))
At this point Frisella, the barber, came out of his shop to join in the fun. Behind him was the Maresciallo, pompous and important, rubbing his smooth red face. He was the only man in Montelepre who had himself shaved every day.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
The two men, one so huge, one so tiny, left the cemetery together. Terraced gardens girdled the sides of the surrounding mountains with green ribbons, great white rocks gleamed, a tiny red hawk of Sicily rode down toward them on a shaft of sunlight.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
With children he was playful in that particularly spiteful Sicilian style which is one of the less pleasant sides of the island character; he would nip their ears with his scissors and sometimes cut their hair so short that their heads looked like billiard balls.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
TO LUCY BARFIELD My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2) (Publication Order, #1))
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 (The Godfather #2))
They exploit, and deal, and shift ground constantly, but for all that, you can get used to them. You can get used to their gleaming company towers and their nanocopter security, their cartels and their HOGs, their stretched-over-centuries unhuman patience and their assumed inheritance of godfather status for the human race. You can get so you’re grateful for the there-but-for-the-grace-of-God relief of whatever little flange of existence they afford you on the corporate platform. You can get so it seems eminently preferable to a cold gut-swooping drop into the human chaos waiting below. You can get so you’re grateful. Got to watch out for that.
Richard K. Morgan (Broken Angels (Takeshi Kovacs, #2))
And so on that bright morning, the smoky Sicilian sun making them sweat, the six Mafia chiefs rode their horses up and down along the wall surrounding Prince Ollorto’s estate. The assembled peasants, under olive trees older than Christ, watched these six men, famous all over Sicily for their ferocity. They waited as if hoping for some miracle, too fearful to move forward.
Mario Puzo (The Sicilian (The Godfather, #2))
Forgive my silence, my dear cardinal I should have spoken first, to welcome you, but I must confess that I was dumb with admiration. Madame, your godfather endeavoured to describe your beauty to me but, for the first time in his life, his eloquence has proved unequal to the task; so far unequal that only the fact that none but a poet could find words to express such divinity can excuse him. Let me say how deeply - humbly grateful I am to you for being here - and for being yourself ! ~Prince Corrado Sant'Anna
Juliette Benzoni (Marianne and the Masked Prince (Marianne #2))
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Mark Winegardner (The Godfather's Revenge (The Godfather Returns Book 2))
It’s a beautiful sunlit Monday in August, the kind of day that would make your heart sing, your spirit rise. It’s lunchtime, and I’m standing in an absent-minded fog by the German sausage stall in Borough Market, under London Bridge. I can hear the trains rumbling overhead, and it reminds me of that scene from The Godfather, the one where Michael Corleone is about to assassinate his father’s rival mafia boss. Trains always seem to rumble overhead in movies when something ominous is about to happen, and it’s kind of spooky, not to mention fitting, because things couldn’t get much more ominous for me, right now.
Ruth Mancini (Swimming Home (The Swimming Upstream Series #2))
Uncle George was William's godfather, and he was intensely interested in William's upbringing. It was an interest with which William would gladly have dispensed. Uncle George's annual visit was to William a purgatory only to be endured by a resolutely philosophic attitude of mind and the knowledge that sooner or later it must come to an end.
Richmal Crompton (More William (Just William, #2))
South-east Asia’s high savings rates, most of which flowed into bank deposits, lent themselves to outsize banking systems, which invited godfather abuse. There is, in turn, a pretty direct line from the insider manipulation of regional banks to the Asian financial crisis. The ‘over-banked’ nature of south-east Asia also helps explain a conundrum that has occupied some of the region’s equity investors: why, despite heady economic growth, have long-term stock market returns in south-east Asia been so poor? Since 1993, when a flood of foreign money increased capitalisation in regional markets by around 2.5 times in one calendar year,37 dollar-denominated returns with dividends reinvested (what investors call ‘total’ returns) in every regional market have been lower than those in the mature markets of New York and London, and a fraction of those in other emerging markets in eastern Europe and Latin America.38
Joe Studwell (Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South East Asia)
Our No. 2 bottle, the 2012 Centopassi Argille di Tagghia Via, came from a region of northwestern Sicily more famous from pop culture than from wine, Corleone, the fictional ancestral home of Don Corleone of the “Godfather” movies. In fact, the wine comes from a group of cooperatives that cultivates land seized by the authorities from the Mafia.
Anonymous
His godfather usually had
Gina Welborn (The Kitchen Marriage (Montana Brides #2))
Sin will be completely eliminated. Nothing unclean or immoral or spiritually half-hearted will be there. All thoughts will be true. All desires will be free of any self-exaltation. All feelings will be calm or intense in perfect proportion to the nature of the reality felt. All deeds will be done in the name of Jesus and for the glory of God. Every particle and movement and connection in the material world will communicate something of the wisdom and power and love of God. And the capacity of the glorified minds and hearts and bodies of the saints will know and feel and act with no frustration, no confusion, no repression, no misgiving, no doubt, no regret, and no guilt. All our knowing—whatever we know—will include the knowledge of God. All our feeling—whatever we feel—will include the taste of the worth and beauty of God. All our acting—whatever we do—will comply in sweet satisfaction with the will of God. We will sing forever the “song of the Lamb” (Rev. 15:3)—the Lamb who was slain (Rev. 5:9)—which means we will never forget that every sight, every sound, every fragrance, every touch, and every taste in the new world was purchased by Christ for his undeserving people. This world—with all its joy—cost him his life (Rom. 8:32; 2 Cor. 1:20). Every pleasure of every kind will intensify our thankfulness and love for Jesus. The new heavens and the new earth will never diminish but only increase our boast “in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ” (Gal. 6:14). We will never forget that the recreated theater of wonders—this incomprehensible interweaving of spiritual and material beauty—has come into being through Christ and for Christ (Col. 1:16). God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—will behold the finished work of his providence and rejoice over it with singing (Zeph. 3:17). The Father will rejoice over the excellence of the Son and his triumphant achievements (Matt. 17:5; Phil. 2:9–11). The Son, the bridegroom, will rejoice over his immaculate bride—the glorified church (Isa. 62:5). And the joy of the Holy Spirit will fill the saints as the very joy of God in God (1 Thess. 1:6).
John Piper (Providence)
What did you do to piss off the redneck godfather?
Jack Townsend (Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two (Tales from the Gas Station, #2))
O blessed Trinity, one and only God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! You are the eternal glory and highest beatitude of all the saints and the epitome and perfection of all heavenly powers. From you, through you, and in you alone do all things come into being, exist, and reach their end. Make known to me your ways, O Lord, and teach me your paths; for all your ways are beautiful and all your paths are of peace. You have declared that “blessed are the pure of heart” and “blessed are the peace-makers.”2 These two counsels guide us on the pathways that lead to the blessings of the contemplative life.
Thomas à Kempis (Humility and the Elevation of the Mind to God)
I’m only helping with the training until my godfather, Uncle Carson, can find a suitable replacement for the combat instructor position, seeing as the previous one died of a heart attack.
Michelle Heard (Control Me (Corrupted Royals, #2))
The Godfather amounts to a visual parable of a challenge and critique that dogs the Cultural Liturgies project: while I extol the formative power of historic Christian worship practices, it would seem that there can be—and are—people who have spent entire lifetimes immersed in the rites of historic Christian worship who nonetheless emerge from them not only unformed but perhaps even malformed.2 Or, to put it otherwise: clearly, regular participation in the church’s “orthodox” liturgy is not enough to prevent such “worshipers” from leaving the sanctuary to become (sometimes enthusiastic) participants in all sorts of unjust systems, structures, and behaviors.
James K.A. Smith (Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology)
The Godfather II —" “Nope, not even close. This has the great cliffhanger ending, plus the yummy romance between Princess Leia and Han Solo.” He looked at her, surprised. “Really? I would have pegged you for a When Harry Met Sally fan.” “Nah.” She waved a hand. “Give me sarcastic Han Solo over sentimental Harry any day.
Emily McKay (Tempted Into The Tycoon's Trap (The Hudsons of Beverly Hills, #2))