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When the old men fight, the young people die.
Anne Fortier
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Anne Fortier
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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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
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
By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
Anne Fortier
Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
Anne Fortier
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.
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
Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
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
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
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
.... death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
Anne Fortier
I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
Anne Fortier
Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
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
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
Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
Anne Fortier
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
Anne Fortier
Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
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 did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
Anne Fortier