Top 40 A.R. Torre Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

— A.R. Torre

2. “It’s funny how your mind will create an image of a person and how wrong your mind almost always is.”

— A.R. Torre

3. “The first shrink I had said I have anthropophobia, which is fear of human interaction. Anthropophobia, mixed with an unhealthy dose of dacnomania, which is obsession with murder.”

— A.R. Torre

4. “You manipulate people for a living. Manipulation to fit and believe your narrative. You play with emotions and, sometimes, facts.”

— A.R. Torre

5. “Star light. Star bright. First star I see tonight. I wish I may, wish I might. Not kill those whom my heart holds tight.”

— A.R. Torre

6. “Enablers don’t love. They ruin.”

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7. “Then he drove home, to an expectant wife and a warm dinner. And he realized, with shock, that he felt no guilt. That the fantasies he’d been harboring his entire life had finally been satisfied without any negative side effects.”

— A.R. Torre

8. “Disappointment in others is tough. But disappointment in yourself is far worse.”

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9. “Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.”

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10. “To girls with broken hearts and vengeful souls. Go forth and raise hell.”

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11. “None of them really know the true me. I am who they want me to be, and they like it like that. So do I.”

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12. “Life as a recluse is harder than one might think.”

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13. “I’ve taken those drugs, and I don’t want the life they would bring. To have a free body but a caged mind? To stumble through the world in a zombielike state, never feeling anything, never conscious enough to really know anyone? I’d rather live my life as it is. Where I experience everything, even the horrific fantasies of my psychotic mind.”

— A.R. Torre

14. “I was lying on my side, atop my pink bedspread, the pattern picked out specifically because it looked young, innocent. Virginal. Men like that.”

— A.R. Torre

15. “He doesn’t know why he loves her. But does anyone know why they love? We don’t love people for their traits – traits are common. We love them for their unique ability to tug at our soul, to connect to us in a way that no other person can. Love is unexplainable, unpredictable, and often unreasonable. It doesn’t make sense, and doesn’t care to explain to us its thought process.”

— A.R. Torre

16. “But if done correctly, stripping can be the ultimate foreplay, a sexual seduction that can wipe clear any rational thoughts and leave a man totally and utterly at your mercy.”

— A.R. Torre

17. “It’s like that feeling when you are really aroused; when your body is consumed with the need for release – you would do anything, and are in such a blind fervor that you lose all rational thought.”

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18. “They believe what they see, because they want to believe. They want to believe that I am normal. And for the brief moments I am with them, I fool myself into thinking the same thing.”

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19. “The second pile is for FedEx. I couldn’t bear the thought of another man in brown picking up my packages.”

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20. “I love him because in our relationship, I see a normal future.”

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21. “From my doorside seat, I hear the fights, the secret phone conversations, and the everyday normalcy that gives away so much about a person. Simon was, for a long time, “the Brown-Haired Smoker.” I keep a notebook next to the door, in the cardboard box.”

— A.R. Torre

22. “Nice guys occasionally do win.”

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23. “I hate my former self; hate her selfishness and her lack of appreciation for her perfect suburban life. I had everything in the palm of my perfect, lazy hand and didn’t even realize it.”

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24. “I am content, in these four walls, without normality. Money? Yes. Miserable? At times. But that is what being content is. Comfortable enough with the situation not to prompt change.”

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25. “I don’t mind being killer-crazy, but I don’t want to be loony-bin-crazy. That would probably be bad for business – a bit of a turnoff.”

— A.R. Torre

26. “That part is kind of fuzzy, because then I went all Xena Warrior Princess on his ass.”

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27. “Would I like to run free through life, have friends, fall in love, feel the sun on my face? Yes. But that is no longer an option for me; there is no point in dwelling on and torturing myself over it.”

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28. “With this glass, rich and deep, we cradle all our sorrows to sleep.”

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29. “Blurred lines. Smear enough of them together, and you could change the color of everything.”

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30. “Losing a child was like losing a limb. You were reminded of it every time you moved, until the consistent adjustments to life became a permanent part of you.”

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31. “Broken women cannot be held accountable for their actions.”

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32. “Because he was good in bed? Trust me, the better the motion, the more screwed up the ocean.”

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33. “Obsession, as I frequently told my clients, never affected outside situations. They only made your internal struggles – and resulting personal actions and decisions – worse.”

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34. “That was the secret to success in this town. Presenting a picture of effortless perfection with behind-the-scenes ruthless hard work. Everyone thought I woke up as Cat Winthorpe one day, but I had clawed and scraped for every piece of this life. Still did.”

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35. “Ha!” She laughed. “Honey, it’s not a life. It was a fart in a silent room. That’s why it made a big stink.”

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36. “Keeping my mouth shut was a skill I’d perfected a long time ago.”

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37. “The last thing I need, in the midst of a lethal, perfectly orchestrated attack, is an attack of diarrhea.”

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38. “When you are the darkest presence in the room there is very little to fear.”

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39. “Some of you may hate it. Some of you will love it. If I made you feel something, then I’ve done my job.”

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40. “There were men you owned. There were men you borrowed. And then there were men you took. I would never let anyone take him.”

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41. “We were a wrecked car, barreling down the highway without lights, our steering locked into place. I could put a seat belt on. I could reach out and jab the hazard lights on. But I couldn’t turn off the car, and I couldn’t seem to open the door and fling myself out.”

— A.R. Torre

42. “William Winthorpe had been the right mark, targeted with a well-oiled execution, but I had made the horrible assumption that I was the smartest person in this game.”

— A.R. Torre