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  • #1
    Alessandra Torre
    “Love is only made more valuable by the risk of heartbreak.”
    Alessandra Torre

  • #2
    Alessandra Torre
    “Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.”
    Alessandra Torre, Do Not Disturb

  • #3
    Edna O'Brien
    “Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.”
    Edna O'Brien, In the Forest

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    David Sedaris
    “Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.”
    David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

  • #6
    Chris Abani
    “What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
    Chris Abani

  • #7
    Alessandra Torre
    “The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.”
    Alessandra Torre

  • #8
    Alessandra Torre
    “Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.”
    Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

  • #9
    Neil Gaiman
    “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #10
    Alessandra Torre
    “A gentleman holds my hand.
    A man pulls my hair.
    A soulmate will do both.”
    Alessandra Torre

  • #11
    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    Dr. Seuss

  • #12
    Elizabeth Strout
    “I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”
    Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

  • #13
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #14
    Alessandra Torre
    “Gentlemen are a dying breed.
    Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.”
    Alessandra Torre

  • #15
    Alessandra Torre
    “Lust is a dangerous thing. It can make you believe things that are not real. It can seduce your mind and lead it blindfolded to the cliff that will be its demise.”
    Alessandra Torre

  • #16
    Alessandra Torre
    “(Regarding Marriage) Both people need to care deeply about the other person, to put the other’s needs before their own, and to make a daily commitment to that person to stick it out.”
    Alessandra Torre, Blindfolded Innocence

  • #17
    Alessandra Torre
    “Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.”
    Alessandra Torre, To Have

  • #18
    Alessandra Torre
    “Wait for the man who will do anything to be your everything. And will continue to do it after he has your heart.”
    Alessandra Torre

  • #19
    Alessandra Torre
    “The act of sex is healthy, normal, God-given. It's the emotions and entitlement that everyone attaches to it that is harmful.”
    Alessandra Torre, Blindfolded Innocence

  • #20
    Alessandra Torre
    “I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.”
    Alessandra Torre

  • #21
    Alessandra Torre
    “Sex should be about mutual enjoyment, connection, the borrowing from another’s fire at a moment when you want it most.”
    Alessandra Torre, Sex Love Repeat

  • #22
    Alessandra Torre
    “A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.”
    Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E

  • #23
    Francis Bacon
    “Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
    Francis Bacon

  • #24
    Selma Lagerlöf
    “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
    Selma Lagerlöf

  • #25
    W.C. Fields
    “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #26
    John Guare
    “It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
    John Guare, Landscape of the Body

  • #27
    Selena Kitt
    “Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.”
    Selena Kitt, Temptation

  • #28
    Kate Chopin
    “The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
    Kate Chopin, The Awakening

  • #29
    Jason Luke
    “Every woman who is aroused by submission is also aroused by an alpha male who can tame her. These women aren’t looking for a husband in the bedroom who will make them feel safe and loved. They already have that in their relationship. These women are looking for a man who is strong enough to conquer them. That way the woman can still feel vibrant and independent… but also feel comfortable submitting to their lover. That’s the turn-on for women. They don’t want to be submissives… they want to feel like they can’t resist submitting.”
    Jason Luke, Interview with a Master

  • #30
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
    Abraham Lincoln



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