Giana Darling

“Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked”

I’ll say it one hundred times, just because someone is not who you want them to be, it does not mean they are incapable of good.”

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

– Leonardo di Vin

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

– Leonardo di Vinci

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”

“You say nothing for a woman with eloquent eyes,”

The world, Ms. Lombardi, wants me to the be their villain. So, I will give them one they can truly sink their teeth into.

Death was nothing.

Sacrifice, that was the real killer.

“Elena, lottatrice mia, you are just a girl in a very large world that owes you nothing. Not one thing in your life will come easy. This is the way of girlhood in Napoli. I wish it was not so. I wish I could have given you a better start, but understand, every woman must be a fighter, Elena, because history has tricked men into thinking women are less.” Caprice gripped my face in her hands so tightly, I remember thinking she might pop my head like a crushed watermelon. “This is what you must understand, Elena. They are wrong. Women bear the trials of their men, the delivery of their babies, the weight of their families. Women are extraordinarily strong. So, you must trick the men into giving you power. Do not tell them you are strong, and do not fight them with words because words can be undone. Fight the injustice with action, lottatrice mia, because action can be understood in any language, by any man.”

I didn’t want to be safe. I wanted to be brave and bold in the only arena I’d ever felt capable in—my job.