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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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And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.
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
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
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
Anne Fortier
Romeo was cute …” “Cute?” Alessandro rolled his eyes. “What kind of man is cute?” “… and an excellent dancer …” “Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!” “… but most importantly,” I concluded, “he had nice hands!
Anne Fortier
.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
Anne Fortier
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
Anne Fortier
Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
Anne Fortier
I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
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
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
...had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples.
Anne Fortier
Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
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
I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.
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
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
Anne Fortier
If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?
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
I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
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