26 Quotes by A.R. Torre

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

That part is kind of fuzzy, because then I went all Xena Warrior Princess on his ass.

I don’t mind being killer-crazy, but I don’t want to be loony-bin-crazy. That would probably be bad for business – a bit of a turnoff.

Would I like to run free through life, have friends, fall in love, feel the sun on my face? Yes. But that is no longer an option for me; there is no point in dwelling on and torturing myself over it.

I am content, in these four walls, without normality. Money? Yes. Miserable? At times. But that is what being content is. Comfortable enough with the situation not to prompt change.

Life as a recluse is harder than one might think.

I hate my former self; hate her selfishness and her lack of appreciation for her perfect suburban life. I had everything in the palm of my perfect, lazy hand and didn’t even realize it.

I’ve taken those drugs, and I don’t want the life they would bring. To have a free body but a caged mind? To stumble through the world in a zombielike state, never feeling anything, never conscious enough to really know anyone? I’d rather live my life as it is. Where I experience everything, even the horrific fantasies of my psychotic mind.

The second pile is for FedEx. I couldn’t bear the thought of another man in brown picking up my packages.