Every Last Secret Quotes

“There were men you owned. There were men you borrowed. And then there were men you took. I would never let anyone take him”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Some of you may hate it. Some of you will love it. If I made you feel something, then I’ve done my job.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Broken women cannot be held accountable for their actions.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Blurred lines. Smear enough of them together, and you could change the color of everything.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“That was the secret to success in this town. Presenting a picture of effortless perfection with behind-the-scenes ruthless hard work. Everyone thought I woke up as Cat Winthorpe one day, but I had clawed and scraped for every piece of this life. Still did.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“you had to act decisively and take the consequences. Grab life by the balls. My husband liked to tickle them with a feather and then wander away.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“There were men you owned. There were men you borrowed. And then there were men you took. I would never let anyone take him from me.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Act. Enjoy. Regret. Push away. Yearn. Obsess. Justify. Obsess. Turn against those who keep them from their addiction. Obsess. Act.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Fine.” He dropped his hand from my chin. “Skirt up. Panties down. And if you feel the need to scream, don’t.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Don’t Be A, followed by a photo of a rooster and a lollipop.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Keeping my mouth shut was a skill I’d perfected a long time ago.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“William Winthorpe had been the right mark, targeted with a well-oiled execution, but I had made the horrible assumption that I was the smartest person in this game.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“hand”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“All I wanted was for her life to be systematically destroyed. Goodbye, reputation. Goodbye, career. Goodbye, husband.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Every time he reestablished boundaries or held himself in check, I wanted him more. I appreciated him more.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“The real William Winthorpe was an asshole, and I was fascinated by him.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Maybe because part of me wanted to see if I would get caught and what my sweet, perfect wife would do when she found out what I’d done.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Keeping my mouth shut was a skill I’d perfected a long time ago. It was the gossipers who got in trouble. The braggers.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Chess is easy if you think ahead, the further out the better. You have to weigh the strengths you have. Decide what pieces can be sacrificed. Choose what pieces need to be protected. But the key, Scott preached, if playing against any skilled opponent, was the fake. You had to convince them that you were moving down one path—maybe a dumb path, an innocent path—while you skillfully tiptoed through your true plan, the one that would lead them straight to checkmate.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“It was brilliant of her, expertly played, a cat lying quietly in the bushes and watching all her mice dance to their deaths.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Our first solo activity—brunch last weekend—had been a painful process that had reminded me of why I had stopped taking on new friends. I could only listen to someone brag about themselves for so long before I needed to see a genuine side.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“I don’t think either of us are. William was ready to throw us away over an ego boost. I was ready to destroy a woman’s life out of protective spite. How can I raise a baby if I can’t even control myself?”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“She did?” There was such painful hope in his voice. How did he still love her, a year later? A year full of blind dates, and one-night stands, and eating whatever he wanted, and pure freedom, and yet he wanted her back. Yearned for her. Called me in the middle of the night, drunk and heartbroken, aching for her.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Guilt over torturing a woman who was clearly mentally unhinged. Guilt over ruining her marriage with the one man who could live with her faults. She had set out to destroy my marriage, but I had succeeded in destroying her life.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“It had all been going perfectly until the hard right turn that had thrown me into hell. Hell and a queen-bed hotel room with a rattling air conditioner and questionable pay-per-view options.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Which was why I’d had to do this. I’d had to show him how terrible his life was with her. I’d had to force the break, or he’d never have done it on his own, and she would never have any repercussions for her horrible actions.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“I wanted him to bind himself to us and to vow to never so much as look at another woman.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“Matt was a good guy, but I had been a good wife. He had sworn to love, honor, and protect me, and that’s where his guilt should have been focused.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“used to think of him as a god. When had he fallen? When had he changed, so definitively, from the man I had married? Was he really this weak and helpless against basic human desires? It meant nothing. “That was not how I expected you to find out. If you ever found out.” He turned his head to the side, his profile visible but his eyes still elusive. “I’m sorry you had to hear it like this.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret

“It meant nothing. I choked on the words, vaguely aware that we had an audience, the kitchen staff falling quiet as my husband pissed all over our marriage. He had risked our marriage over something that meant nothing? What did that say about us? Our life? Its worth to him? I gripped the edge of the counter to keep myself from sinking to the floor, my response silenced by Matt’s next words.”
― A.R. Torre, Every Last Secret