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Torre DeRoche is an Australian native and self-proclaimed fearful adventurer. She is a writer and author of the blog, fearfuladventurer.com, which chronicles refreshingly honest travel and adventure stories from the perspective of an alarmist who likes to arm-wrestle her fears. When she's not writing, she's designing, reading, snapping photos, painting, or eating cheese. DeRoche currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.


“It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit.” –Andre Dubus

Don't Quit – FearfulAdventurer.com


Eight and a half years. That’s how long I’ve been working on my memoir, from living the story, to learning how to...

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Average rating: 4.43 · 88 ratings · 39 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
Love with a Chance of Drowning
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions

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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.Mary Oliver
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Some trees are too deeply rooted to move … And if they are uprooted, they will die…Jocelyn Murray
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" Torre DeRoche, author of the new memoir, LOVE WITH A CHANCE OF DROWNING, makes no bones about it, she is terrified of water. And yet she follows a handsome Argentinean she met in a San Francisco bar across the Pacific Ocean in a 32-foot sailboat.... " Read more of this review »
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The sick puppy inside of me loves an adventure-gone-wrong book, and Trek is exactly that. This is a harrowing survival story that contains a truckload of lessons on What Not to Do When You Attempt To Cross the Sahara. "Don't be an arrogant ass" is le...more
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“Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he had taken the passion he felt for Susan and folded it in half, so he no longer had a drowning, helpless feeling when he glimpsed her beside him in bed: her ropy arms and soft, generous ass. Then he’d folded it in half again, so when he felt desire for Susan, it no longer brought with it an edgy terror of never being satisfied. Then in half again, so that feeling desire entailed no immediate need to act. Then in half again, so he hardly felt it. His desire was so small in the end that Ted could slip it inside his desk or a pocket and forget about it, and this gave him a feeling of safety and accomplishment, of having dismantled a perilous apparatus that might have crushed them both. Susan was baffled at first, then distraught; she’d hit him twice across the face; she’d run from the house in a thunderstorm and slept at a motel; she’d wrestled Ted to the bedroom floor in a pair of black crotchless underpants. But eventually a sort of amnesia had overtaken Susan; her rebellion and hurt had melted away, deliquesced into a sweet, eternal sunniness that was terrible in the way that life would be terrible, Ted supposed, without death to give it gravitas and shape. He’d presumed at first that her relentless cheer was mocking, another phase in her rebellion, until it came to him that Susan had forgotten how things were between them before Ted began to fold up his desire; she’d forgotten and was happy — had never not been happy — and while all of this bolstered his awe at the gymnastic adaptability of the human mind, it also made him feel that his wife had been brainwashed. By him.”
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