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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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DK
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I am sorry I didn’t tell you the truth before. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to. You kept asking about Romeo and what he was really like. I was hoping that”—he smiled wistfully—“you would recognize me.
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
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
...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
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
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
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
Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
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
Only weak men want women to be weak.
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
Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry I was not so sure about the reason part.
Anne Fortier
I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
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
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
I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
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
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
In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
Anne Fortier
You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
Anne Fortier