Love, Chloe Quotes

“I am a woman. I don’t always act rationally, especially when it’s a week before my period, my brain was still strung out from orgasms, and I was looking at another woman’s lipstick on my man.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Closure. Such an odd concept. Did relationships really need it? Or was it just an excuse for one last glimpse at what could have been?”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Life isn’t the bitch we should all fear. It’s love.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Not since last week, when the easy wealth I’d enjoyed my whole, pampered life ended faster than a Taylor Swift relationship.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“In the world of fight or flight, I froze in place and got eaten.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“I love you, Chloe. Everything else fades away from that.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“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, Love, Chloe

“This man who was not good for me. This man who had a thousand faithful and dedicated bones in his body, but four or five wildly promiscuous ones, bones that jump out of order occasionally and had their fun. Bones that shattered promises, ruined happily-ever-afters, and broke apart soul mates.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“I wasn’t dipping into blue-collar territory, no matter how hot the man was. That just wasn’t my style, not in a city that had millionaires on every corner. But he was certainly nice window dressing. And I might dip my toe into that pool once or twice this summer, just to taste that poison. Just to have it on my skin.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Life might be a bitch, but love? She kicked that bitch’s ass.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“First kisses were often last kisses also.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“I gave him that watch, back when I spent weekends with Daddy's AMEX in my wallet and eight inches of Vic in my hand.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“I didn’t want another vibrator night.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Sometimes we all need protection from ourselves.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“I'd spent my whole life trying to impress people. Maybe that was the start of my fall, the last two decades one plush float into the depths of shallow, insecure, hell.
All I know is that when I hit the bottom, I hit hard.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Too passive. Wow, she knew how to sell ’em. “Pass. I could use some singledom.” “You’ve been single eight months. It’s been long enough.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Yeah?” I looked at her. “Then why aren’t you dating him?” “He’s too passive for me. I need a man who’ll fight back when I kick.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“Forget Vic. Let me set you up with this guy we’ve hired. He’s gorgeous, Chloe, and he’s hilarious.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe

“... and noticed his eyes, they stayed on me whenever I spoke - almost intimidating in their focus. He was actually listening to me, not just waiting for a chance to speak, his focus one hundred percent on me. It felt odd, a man paying such rapt attention to me, and I tried to remember the last time I had such complete attention, without eyes darting to a phone, or a sentence interrupted, details lost.”
― Alessandra Torre, Love, Chloe