Alessandra Torre Quotes

“The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I loved you. I still love you. Even when I hate you, I love you. I always will. I'm not a smart man, but I know that." ... "Tell me what you want. If you want it, I'll leave. Not for him. I'll never do anything for him. But for you, I'll do it. I'll fucking kill myself inside of him.”

— Alessandra Torre

“Love isn't about being happy. Be single and be happy. Love is about putting him, his sanity, his happiness, first. If you aren't willing to do that then you aren't really in love.”

— Alessandra Torre

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else-grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

— Alessandra Torre

“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

“I love her. She knows it. I don't hide the fact. But I don't think she knows how much I love her. How much my chest expands to a point of pain when she smiles. How I ache when I leave her, how my hands shake when I finally get to touch her again. She is everything I don't deserve, and everything I could ever hope to attain”

— Alessandra Torre

“Kissed you. I just kissed you. Big fucking deal. You wouldn't shut up.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I was, and still am, a dramatic rider. I believe that there's no point in doing something if you aren't going to do it with all of your heart.”

— Alessandra Torre

“He couldn't. Never again, not with anyone else. Nothing would ever, after that moment, compare. Not with her cry, not with her reaction, not with her kiss. A woman shouldn't be created in such heartbreakingly beautiful combinations. A woman shouldn't, in fifteen minutes, have the ability to ruin him for life.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I'll do anything you want. Anything. It is true. The last two years have taught me that. Anything. It is a heavy word when used correctly. It is a word that can hold unknown possibilities”

— Alessandra Torre

“I got the memo, Nathan," I interrupt him crossly. "You don't love me. Aren't going to love me. I hear it loud and clear. A fucking cuddle session isn't going to change that.”

— Alessandra Torre

“That might seem fucked up, but that is how I am. I take what I want, and I own what I have.”

— Alessandra Torre

“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.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I was a stupid, self-assuming girl. Sitting at that table? Smug in my confidence of my ownership?”

— Alessandra Torre

“But on this man the look was different. Hungry and possessive, he ate me with his stare, with the blatant desire that he made no attempt to hide.”

— Alessandra Torre

“He grinned, that sexy, I-fucking-own-you grin and released my ass, dropping me full force on top of my full-time obsession.”

— Alessandra Torre

I want to flip you over and bury my face in between your legs and fuckin' own you with my mouth.

— Alessandra Torre

“During these minutes, he owns me, regardless of the money or the orders. I am fully and completely his.”

— Alessandra Torre

This is the animal Brad, my favorite side of him, a side I only see in these moments, when he is watching me with another, and every alpha male instinct is on high alert.

— Alessandra Torre

“Southern women are unique; there is no disputing that. We are women born of conflict, our pasts littered with battles and chaos, self-preservation, and protection. We've run plantations during wars, served Union soldiers tea before watching them burn our homes, hidden slaves from prosecution, and endured centuries of watching and learning from our men's mistakes. It is not easy to survive life in the South. It is even more difficult to do it with a smile on your face. We have held these states together, held our dignity and graciousness, held our head high when it was smeared with blood and soot. We are strong. We are Southern. We have secrets and lives you will never imagine.”

— Alessandra Torre

“That's right, bitches. I couldn't balance my checkbook and didn't know the capital of Iowa but I apparently gave amazing head. I could die a happy sexpot.”

— Alessandra Torre

“SohelpmeGod if there weren't a hundred people staring at us, I would have his nuts in a vice. A steel one. With teeth.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I can understand your judgment. I know that I am a prostitute. I'm not proud of it.”

— Alessandra Torre

“... has complete control of his heart. He will never stop loving her.”

— Alessandra Torre

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

— Alessandra Torre

“It was worth it as soon as I saw you'.”

— Alessandra Torre

“Did I at least look kick ass?" "In your baggy tee, grandma bathing suit and ripped shorts?" he grimaced. "Oh yeah. Totally kick ass.”

— Alessandra Torre

“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

“Ty." It was only one word, but a gruff plea that said everything. I lifted my gaze from his lips to his eyes and saw the hurt in them, the miss, the need. Need that I couldn't step away from. Need that I felt in every part of my body. "Take me somewhere, Chase.”

— Alessandra Torre

I love you, Chloe. Everything else fades away from that.

— Alessandra Torre

“This was not a rebound, this was not infatuation, this was the end of his life as he knew it, and the realization hit that even if she didn't want him, he would never ever find another woman like her.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I am grateful that I got kicked in the ass. That I had a taste of reality before I traveled too far and that persona became permanent.”

— Alessandra Torre

“It was a shame, really, to have that much beauty. God could have divided up his thick eyelashes, strong features, hazel eyes, and delicious mouth among three men, therefore giving more women a chance at happiness.”

— Alessandra Torre

“CRUSHER: [NOUN] SOMEONE WHO SURFS HARD, AS IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND NO FEAR INSIDE”

— Alessandra Torre

“Pray tell, what is wrong with the swimsuit model that I have delivered to your doorstep?”

— Alessandra Torre

It's made me more relaxed about life. I take each day as it comes. Try to enjoy myself. I don't hang with people who bring me down, don't hold on to things that don't make me happy.

— Alessandra Torre

“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

“She finished just after him, scooping out fried corn and an okra-tomato-corn medley on his plate.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I have only ever thought of my demons as constricting-heavy chains that I drag around, trying constantly to wrestle myself free of-their cumbersome weight restricting me in daily movement, stopping me if I try to reach too high or go too far. The thought that I could actually put this personality quirk to good use-to help someone instead of hurt them-has put a glimmer of hope into my heart. A glimmer that I am trying my best to ignore.”

— Alessandra Torre

“Didn't want to know what made a few squeals come from that general vicinity. That was textbook romance. I'd give up an ovary for that right there.”

— Alessandra Torre

“I need to know how many men ... " I glanced at the door. "How many men Brant has ... " I tried to find the right word to use in this public setting. " ... been in contact with. If Lee is the only one. What the possibilities are for more.”

— Alessandra Torre

And that look, that vulnerability? It was even more irresistible than her strength.

— Alessandra Torre

Sole Alessandra Torre I've had a lot of firsts in the last three years. Today is a new one. First time throwing a three-year-old Birthday party, Hollywood Style. Too bad my sexier-than-sin husband is absolutely no help. And Cocky is in the pool. And Ben is having a panic attack. And Justin is feeding my child sugar at every opportunity. This is past the dirt, and more than just Hollywood. This is our life as Sole.

— Alessandra Torre

“Love has its own timeline, Tyler. Remember that.”

— Alessandra Torre

“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.”

— Alessandra Torre

Spikes first had been our code. Our mantra in life, the thought that you dove full force into confrontation, damn the repercussions to others, should they be too dumb to move out of the way. Sometimes you made it there safely. Sometimes you didn't, the enormous effort a waste. But if you had the opening, you had to try.

— Alessandra Torre

First loves were supposed to be flimsy and temperamental. They were supposed to burn bright and fade fast. They weren't supposed to stick. They weren't supposed to eat away at a man's heart, his capacity for life.

— Alessandra Torre

“HUMILIATION: Humiliation play is connected to sexual fetishism and can be associated with exhibitionism in the sense of wanting others to witness one's sexual degradation. Activities such as name-calling are a way of achieving ego reduction or getting over sexual inhibitions.”

— Alessandra Torre

“There was madness in those eyes. Love does that to a person.”

— Alessandra Torre

“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