Top 160 Alessandra Torre Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I was a stupid, self-assuming girl. Sitting at that table? Smug in my confidence of my ownership?”

— Alessandra Torre

52. “The word ‘tight’ has twenty-two definitions, but my favorite is Webster’s fifth – “a bond which cannot be broken.”

— Alessandra Torre

53. “Fate was funny that way; it had its own way of changing our lives.”

— Alessandra Torre

54. “He held his eyes on her and saw the moment the girl of stone cracked, crumbled, and broke. He saw the quick inhale of breath, the loosening of defiance in her eyes, the tightening of her forehead, in between her eyebrows, her bottom lip curling slightly underneath a tooth. It was a small act, no burst of tears, no wail of drama.”

— Alessandra Torre

55. “And when one loves kills another, can you still love the one who’s left?”

— Alessandra Torre

56. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

58. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

59. “When I arched against him, his eyes drank it in, eager and greedy, and if I could bottle up that moment, I would never have to wonder if he found me attractive. I could open it and sip it, a bit at a time, and be satisfied my whole life.”

— Alessandra Torre

60. “Long ago, I lost any respect for the police, for their inability to find the truth, even when it is thrust, front and center, in their faces.”

— Alessandra Torre

61. “Say the word Pepsi in this town, you best watch your back on the way out.”

— Alessandra Torre

62. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

63. “But in the South, our smiles are our weapons and only a native knows a snarl from sincerity.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

65. “I would once again be an outsider, my nose pressed against the glass, watching the ball with no ticket to attend.”

— Alessandra Torre

66. “First loves were supposed to be flimsy and temperamental. They were supposed to burn bright and fade fast. They weren’t supposed to stick.”

— Alessandra Torre

67. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

68. “You don’t understand the true awesomeness of nature until you watch the sun rise on water that stretches across half the world. Or until you lay back on the board in the pitch black of night and listen to the world sleep. Until you feel the tug of water and know that you are dancing with a partner that could dip you into death should it feel the need.”

— Alessandra Torre

69. “Funny how, in a crowd of so many, a man can feel so alone.”

— Alessandra Torre

70. “Every word out of her mouth was freakin’ silk, and Cole would have bet a thousand bucks, right then, that even Ben had a hard on. Forget The Fortune Bottle. This woman could have a career in food porn.”

— Alessandra Torre

71. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

72. “You can tell the truly wealthy from their confidence, their grace. People here don’t show their wealth, they hide it. They covet it.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

75. “When had I gotten so afraid of love and hope that I strangled it to death with my insecurity? Maybe it was easier to date an ugly man, one with obvious flaws, one who belched and couldn’t dress, and wasn’t so damn perfectly tempting. At least then I’d feel confident.”

— Alessandra Torre

76. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

78. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

79. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

80. “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.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

82. “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

83. “Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don’t know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.”

— Alessandra Torre

84. “Funny what you find out about people when they leave you. Or when your mind stops making excuses for all of their clues.”

— Alessandra Torre

85. “When You Say You Are Going to Do Something, Shut the Hell Up and Do It.”

— Alessandra Torre

86. “I could look in this man’s eyes all day. Could get lost in them, move for them, lie, steal, die for them.”

— Alessandra Torre

87. “It is intoxicating, the heartbeat of the ocean. It flows through my blood; it sucks at my heart and pumps breath through my lungs.”

— Alessandra Torre

88. “I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me – pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.”

— Alessandra Torre

89. “There is no point in dwelling on the darkness. Not when our new life is full of such light.”

— Alessandra Torre

90. “Yes, sweet tea. I had actually converted him into a human being.”

— Alessandra Torre

91. “Its. A. Chicken. There ain’t no Chef Boyardee prepackaged meals in nine different flavors.”

— Alessandra Torre

92. “A Sunday. Only Yankees would think that was an appropriate time to thrust themselves into our lives. Sunday, the Lord’s Day.”

— Alessandra Torre

93. “This was a woman who lunched in fancy restaurants, filtered suitors based on their bank balances, and who looked at women like me as snacks.”

— Alessandra Torre

94. “3. Don’t kill anyone.”

— Alessandra Torre

95. “He is my jailor as much as Nathan. He, like Nathan, seems entitled to sample from my body – but offers nothing in return.”

— Alessandra Torre

96. “How much money I have is not indicative of my worth. If it was, then I would be the lesser individual on this porch.”

— Alessandra Torre

97. “They think their Mercedes makes them a better person, when – to us – it’s just an indication of low self-esteem.”

— Alessandra Torre

98. “Not since last week, when the easy wealth I’d enjoyed my whole, pampered life ended faster than a Taylor Swift relationship.”

— Alessandra Torre

99. “Ben cleared his throat, and the eye of every chicken stared, accusingly, in his direction.”

— Alessandra Torre

100. “She and I were alone in this house, the fireflies more active than our souls.”

— Alessandra Torre