A.R. Torre > Quotes

“Pity is a bitch I’d like to avoid.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“To girls with broken hearts and vengeful souls. Go forth and raise hell.”
― A.R. Torre, If You Dare

“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, The Girl in 6E

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“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.”
― A.R. Torre

“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.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“It’s funny how your mind will create an image of a person and how wrong your mind almost always is.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“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, Do Not Disturb

“There were men you owned. There were men you borrowed. And then there were men you took. I would never let anyone take him”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“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.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“Some of you may hate it. Some of you will love it. If I made you feel something, then I’ve done my job.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Broken women cannot be held accountable for their actions.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“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.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Disappointment in others is tough. But disappointment in yourself is far worse.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“Because he was good in bed? Trust me, the better the motion, the more screwed up the ocean.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“I look to the other side of my apartment, to my bed of sex, cameras, toys, and lingerie spread all over its surface. Refrain from any sexual activity? Bitch, please.”
― A.R. Torre, Do Not Disturb

“Blurred lines. Smear enough of them together, and you could change the color of everything.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“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, The Girl in 6E

“Enablers don't love. They ruin.”
― A.R. Torre, If You Dare

“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.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.”
― A.R. Torre

“William S. Burroughs once said that no one owns life, but anyone who can lift a frying pan can create death. He was right. Killing is the easy part. The act of living—of finding happiness in life—that’s the hard part. Moving past grief and guilt, and learning to love and to trust . . . I wanted to take that path, but I rather liked cradling my sorrows.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“you had to act decisively and take the consequences. Grab life by the balls. My husband liked to tickle them with a feather and then wander away.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Obsession, as I frequently told my clients, never affected outside situations. They only made your internal struggles—and resulting personal actions and decisions—worse.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“That part is kind of fuzzy, because then I went all Xena Warrior Princess on his ass.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“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.”
― A.R. Torre, The Girl in 6E

“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, The Girl in 6E

“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.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie

“You manipulate people for a living. Manipulation to fit and believe your narrative. You play with emotions and, sometimes, facts.”
― A.R. Torre, The Good Lie