Alessandra Torre Quotes

Women rarely need the things they want

I've put one foot before another and the years have passed, the time marked by late rent payments and the appearance of wrinkles - tiny ones, on the corners of my eyes. They are a reminder of my youth, and of the hourglass that we all live in, grains of sand slipping through the gap of time, each granule adding another wrinkle, another pocket of fat, another sag that I will fight to overcome, another grey hair to pluck or dye.

I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.

And when one loves kills another, can you still love the one who's left?

His looks are my weakness, his mind my undoing.

Death. It is a strange stalker, one that we spend our whole lives running from, some more successful than others.

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.

Hope, in general, is dangerous. Hope can be the loose thread that pulls apart your sanity.