Top 160 Alessandra Torre Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.”

— Alessandra Torre

2. “The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.”

— Alessandra Torre

3. “She was such a paradox. In some ways, the strongest woman he’d ever met, her fire and spite and self-sufficiency clear and defined. In other ways, she was the softest, most vulnerable. She put herself too far out there, felt too strongly, would love too fiercely, give too freely, her actions a roadmap to destruction that would one day kill that spirit.”

— Alessandra Torre

4. “You are not a man, I thought. A man doesn’t drink sparkling water; he chugs tap water from a hose after changing his oil.”

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5. “Some people are just having a misfire of judgment or control. But other people are letting you see a bit of the rotten person inside. Their cruel or stupid behavior is a gift of sorts, because it lets you see the real person that they are beneath.”

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6. “I want to flip you over and bury my face in between your legs and fuckin’ own you with my mouth.”

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7. “That didn’t stop you from sucking my cock.” He doesn’t smile, and the first real stab of fear hits me.”

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8. “There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and exposed – the perfect environment for a soul-sucking, heart-crushing burst. It burns brightest, hits hardest, and touches deepest. It’s why Facebook flames erupt two decades later between high school sweethearts. Between two naive and innocent souls, anything can happen. Soulmates or Tragedy. And sometimes, both.”

— Alessandra Torre

9. “But you don’t know the depravity of my mind. You don’t know the thoughts I struggle with, what I fight to contain.”

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10. “She stares in my eyes and loves me with a vehemence all her own. A scary, passionate type of love. One that rips away all pretenses and allows us to love each other bare and without consequence.”

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11. “Lust is a dangerous thing. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise. Nathan takes me to that cliff, my body bending and molding beneath his, my heart coming up for air in between soft caresses with his mouth while his cock hammers out a slick, rapid motion.”

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12. “I am grateful for the chaos. Grateful for the immense change that it brought. Grateful that now, I am in a pleasant state of calm.”

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13. “She brushed off her hands and grabbed her purse, setting off for the back porch with purpose. On the ground, Cocky squawked his indignation at being left. “Hush,” Cole chided him. “You’ve already gotten more play than me.”

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14. “There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and exposed – the perfect environment for a soul-sucking, heart-crushing burst.”

— Alessandra Torre

15. “When you spend half a decade of your life with someone, the ending should occur in a personal fashion. Face to face, hand in hand. Words spoken out of lips kissed, tears shed on seen cheeks. It shouldn’t be easy; it should be painful and honest; it should take hours instead of minutes; it should involve yells and cries and discussions, but it should be substantial. A moment thought over and worked out. Not the casual and simple act of a stranger handing over a legal envelope.”

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16. “Between two naive and innocent souls, anything can happen. Soulmates or Tragedy. And sometimes, both.”

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17. “My heart couldn’t survive a fall, not from the height that my feelings had climbed.”

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18. “God, I love him. The truth that I’d run from every day of my new life smashed into me like a fastball into a mitt, stinging in its impact, radiating through my bones. I love him.”

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19. “I should be riding him like a prize stallion.”

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20. “To the women who teach their sons to open doors, respect women, and make us laugh. Thank you.”

— Alessandra Torre

21. “He went full frontal in The Evidence Locker. America swooned and my vibrator got a fresh round of batteries.”

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22. “Look to the moon when you swing, he instructed. That’s what you want. A ball that disappears into it. One that goes to the moon and past. A moonshot.”

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23. “She smiled brightly, and the sum of their entire relationship could be condensed into that exchange: two actors playing their parts to perfection. Sad that it took so long for him to finally see that.”

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24. “It is the first time, in as far as I can remember, feeling fear. When you are the darkest presence in the room, there is very little to fear. An opportunity to interact with evil would only justify any violent actions my body might take.”

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25. “This is why I avoid men. This is why I avoid people in general. We are a disgusting, foul race, only a few centuries past smearing our faces with feces and dancing for rain.”

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26. “One of the hardest things for a writer to do is delete words.”

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27. “God, do I love this man. The way he touches me, the way he kisses me. The cuts of his body and the intensity of his eyes. He is a drug that I have no way of resisting, bad for my soul, but so heartbreakingly perfect in its deliverance.”

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28. “You will bend for me, spread for me, allow me to have every inch of surface, all while screaming my name and shuddering into my heart.”

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29. “Cole stood in a living room of chicken hell. Wallpaper with chickens on it. Chicken clock. Chicken pillows. Framed plates with chickens on it.”

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30. “I became lost in her face when she orgasmed around my cock, felt the warmth of her smile when we shared a joke.”

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31. “We love them for their unique abique ability to tug at 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.”

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32. “I don’t know what’s going on with you, with your whole “I don’t talk to people, I kill them” act. But I know what’s going on with me, and that’s that I can’t get you out of my mind. Please let me in.”

— Alessandra Torre

33. “Thank you for meeting me. And for not being a serial killer.” I laugh, and take his hand. “Agreed. I was actually planning on being a serial killer but decided against it. My day is kind of full. Meetings.”

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34. “I allowed the weakness to fester, to rot at the bones of my ribcage until my chest was cracked wide open and she had crawled inside and feasted on my heart. Inhaled it until there was no longer her and I but only us.”

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35. “You kiss all your friends?” The corner of his mouth turned up. “When they have a mouth like yours.”

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36. “Sexy. Hot. Gorgeous. Fine. Bitchin’. Pretty, when the man is short on words or unfamiliar with the English language. But beautiful is not a word often used.”

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37. “I don’t judge the men and women who chat with me and reveal their secrets and perversions. How can I? My secret, my obsession, is worse than any of theirs.”

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38. “Every saved soul was a pebble into the stream that was my broken heart. I threw every pebble in and hoped the water would dam, hoped the hurt would fade, hoped the memories would fade. But the stream never dried, the hurt never ceased, and my pain never healed.”

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39. “Cole should have known better. This man had probably tied down his wife and forced the wedding ring on her hand. He.”

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40. “No sweetie. But you will always have a home here, and with me. Let that give you the confidence to take risks.”

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41. “They were as done as our Waffle King after the Cow Incident of ’97.”

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42. “Being a writer all boils down to this: It’s you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you’re either going to stay in that chair until words are written, or you’re going to give up and walk away. The great writers have to fight for their words. They have to choose to write, choose words over distractions, and their characters over their friends. Great writers can be lonely, exhausted souls. But through our characters, we live.”

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43. “Together, we would only bring chaos.”

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44. “We all have a Happily Ever After, each story just needs to pick the right time to claim it.”

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45. “Deepak Chopra once said: “All great changes are preceded by chaos.”

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46. “He can’t help me. Not in the way that I need to be helped. I don’t want a salve or whatever form of support my mother received. I’ve seen one family destroyed. I don’t plan on repeating that trend.”

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47. “I gave him that watch, back when I spent weekends with Daddy’s AMEX in my wallet and eight inches of Vic in my hand.”

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48. “Yes.” Brett smiled and I cringed at his omission of ‘ma’am.’ The word was a Southern requirement, a verbal side dish that must accompany every course. It didn’t matter if the person addressed was six years old. Or twenty. Or ninety. In the South, we said ‘please’ and ‘thank you,’ ‘sir,’ and ’ma’am.”

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49. “The guys are off today,” I said tartly. “Why don’t you run along to the Gap and let me work?”

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50. “So Aunt Jillian quit her job and hitched her wagon to Brant. Lived off food stamps and her savings account in a spare bedroom at Brant’s house for two years. Then she brokered their first deal and all of the Sharps moved their bank account decimals seven places to the right.”

— Alessandra Torre