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You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
Anne Fortier
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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.
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Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
Anne Fortier
I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
Anne Fortier
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
I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
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
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
...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
Anne Fortier
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
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
Peppo! I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. I really don't want to be arrested, okay? Don't worry! Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. I go too fast for police!
Anne Fortier
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
Anne Fortier
We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
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
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the other, but I should rather choose to have my eyes burnt in their sockets than to have been born without.
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
You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
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