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Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
Anne Fortier
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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
Anne Fortier
A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.
Anne Fortier
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
Anne Fortier
Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly way.
Anne Fortier
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
Anne Fortier
She had died peacefully, in her sleep, after an evening of listening to all of her favorite Fred Astaire songs, one crackling record after another. Once the last chord of the last piece had died out, she had stood up and opened the French doors to the garden outside, perhaps waiting to breathe in the honeysuckle one more time.
Anne Fortier
Only weak men want women to be weak.
Anne Fortier
Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
Anne Fortier
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
Anne Fortier
Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?
Anne Fortier
It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
Anne Fortier
When the old men fight, the young people die.
Anne Fortier
For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.
Anne Fortier
I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.
Anne Fortier
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
Anne Fortier
...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
Anne Fortier
I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.
Anne Fortier
We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
Anne Fortier
But he is an Italian, was Umberto's sensible reply. He doesn't care if you break some law a little bit, as long as you wear beautiful shoes. Are you wearing beautiful shoes? Are you wearing the shoes I gave you?...principessa? I looked down at my flip-flops. I guess I'm toast.
Anne Fortier
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
Anne Fortier
