Top 160 Alessandra Torre Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “How does someone keep a chicken inside a fence? I had closed my eyes at that one, picturing Cocky running off into the cotton fields, and me, standing at the edge of the fence, hollering the rooster’s name like a crazy woman.”

— Alessandra Torre

102. “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

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

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

105. “I will worship at the shrine of Brad from this day forth.”

— Alessandra Torre

106. “I love her completely. She returns the love wildly. This love is worth the unsaid truths. The hidden lies.”

— Alessandra Torre

107. “Closure. Such an odd concept. Did relationships really need it? Or was it just an excuse for one last glimpse at what could have been?”

— Alessandra Torre

108. “You know this business, Cole. Your production budget is climbing faster than Lindsay Lohan’s chance of a crack baby pregnancy.”

— Alessandra Torre

109. “He doesn’t know anything yet. He knows I fell for a boy. He knows I had a baby. All he knows are the first lines of a song. He hasn’t even heard the melody yet.”

— Alessandra Torre

110. “Control. It is a food that Nathan feeds on, devours with a vulgarity that clashes with his smooth exterior. He wants to control me, and he wants an audience – an audience that he controls in the process.”

— Alessandra Torre

111. “There is something soothing about the act of writing, a drug that lures you into another world, but then forgets to stop, and sometimes carries you all the way into sleepdom.”

— Alessandra Torre

112. “Full of innocence, full of hope. It is almost a shame to destroy that. The sweetness never stays long. It is destroyed quickly, replaced with tears and fear. It is sad that he now connects that fear with the experience, has grown to enjoy it on a level almost equal to the innocence.”

— Alessandra Torre

113. “I delete the last line, and then the entire paragraph. Lies. I am forgetting that this is not an ordinary novel, that I can’t take fictional liberties, can’t provide clues, or lead the readers down a path I didn’t travel.”

— Alessandra Torre

114. “If our love was lingerie, it would never come off.”

— Alessandra Torre

115. “But back then, I only dreamed about, yearned for, and wrote about love. I didn’t realize what a brutal beast it could be.”

— Alessandra Torre

116. “I spend my days on a strict schedule. It helps to tell my brain when to behave a certain way and helps to keep my impulses and fantasies under control.”

— Alessandra Torre

117. “You can become anything,” I say to her. “Make sure that you don’t become selfish, unimaginative and dumb.”

— Alessandra Torre

118. “You meet the guy and tell me you aren’t going to hide in a plane restroom and whisper when you complain about him.”

— Alessandra Torre

119. “She made me feel that in all of the rotten of my soul, there still existed goodness, light. Hope.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

121. “Silence doesn’t mean interesting. It could just mean boring. Sometimes you open the door and find out that it’s a big ornate sexy door to an empty closet. Maybe the only thing you’re interested in is the mystery, and you’ll find yourself bored with what’s inside.”

— Alessandra Torre

122. “Please.” The word was disgusting as it came out, rank with misuse, and he felt irritation in the midst of his panic. But it was the panic that drove this train, panic that pushed every retort out of his mind and left him broken and desperate, in front of this man.”

— Alessandra Torre

123. “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

124. “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

125. “The man shouldn’t be allowed to have a mouth. Shouldn’t be allowed to use that thing like a weapon.”

— Alessandra Torre

126. “I cannot be rescued; there is no Happily Ever After because, at the end of all this. Cinderella isn’t allowed to kill the prince.”

— Alessandra Torre

127. “Killer: yes. Exploiter of secrets: no.”

— Alessandra Torre

128. “I understood cheating, understood the betrayal that you went through when you found out. Understood the lows that your self-esteem struggled with, the validation that you tried to find, the loneliness that haunted your nights as you mourned a future that, in an instant, disappeared.”

— Alessandra Torre

129. “When there is evil in someone, it grows, unattended by all and fielded by its harborer. I know this; I feel it each and every day, growing stronger inside of me till one day – snap – it will take control, and every logical thought process, every thought of survival and preservation, will disappear, and I will be a loose cannon, fired and on my path of destruction, with nothing but my own doom ahead of me and the demise of whoever lay in my final path.”

— Alessandra Torre

130. “Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.”

— Alessandra Torre

131. “I am a woman. I don’t always act rationally, especially when it’s a week before my period, my brain was still strung out from orgasms, and I was looking at another woman’s lipstick on my man.”

— Alessandra Torre

132. “New York. Tomorrow. He needed more time to prepare. But a lifetime wouldn’t be enough. He’d never be ready to face her again. Not without pulling her into his arms. Not without refusing to ever let her go.”

— Alessandra Torre

133. “You live here, you work in the industry. You don’t have to be it.”

— Alessandra Torre

134. “The story of their marriage. Bits of time stolen between lives apart.”

— Alessandra Torre

135. “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

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

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

138. “Something stops in my chest, and the guilt is almost impossible to breathe through. I tighten my fingers around the pen and force myself to lower it to the page.”

— Alessandra Torre

139. “I loved this man back. Done. My heart was officially toast. When the kiss ended, I told him as much, his mouth taking mine with a final touch that celebrated the occasion.”

— Alessandra Torre

140. “I didn’t want another vibrator night.”

— Alessandra Torre

141. “I have a whole world of victims outside these walls.”

— Alessandra Torre

142. “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

143. “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

144. “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

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

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

147. “Maybe there is a chance for happiness after all, despite my online slutdom and psychopathic urges.”

— Alessandra Torre

148. “First kisses were often last kisses also.”

— Alessandra Torre

149. “In the world of fight or flight, I froze in place and got eaten.”

— Alessandra Torre

150. “Who hides more than he gives. Who lies more that he tells the truth.”

— Alessandra Torre