Alessandra Torre

“On the bed - now,” he ordered, yanking the band of his shorts and dropping them on the floor. “I need to fuck right now more than I need to breath.”

“Get up and get on the bed in the Master. I’m going to fuck the hell out of you.”

“Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.”

“I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.”

“A gentleman holds my hand.A man pulls my hair.A soulmate will do both.”

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

“A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.”

“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.”

“Marrying the wrong person only denies you both a chance at your soul mate.”

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

“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.”

“I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough.”

“Gentlemen are a dying breed.Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.”

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

“The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful.”

“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.”

“Today is the day that you create worlds, you change lives, you make a something, a someone, out of nothing.Today is the day you become a writer.”

“I stare across the table at Jeremy, and wonder if I will make it through our first date without trying to kill him.”

“Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.”

“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.”