Top 100 Anne Fortier Quotes
#1. It may upset my secret sisters that I say this, but between you and me, if you're so fortunate as to have captured the perfect male, peeling off that chain-mail bikini and becoming a part-time Amazon is not so bad after all.
-Author's Note, Anne Fortier
Anne Fortier
#2. Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.
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#3. We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.
Anne Fortier
#4. Don't invite a girl on board if you don't have a six-pack antilock braking system.
Anne Fortier
#5. 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
#6. He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.
Anne Fortier
#7. Happiness is the worst threat to my business. Dreams are what it's all about. Frustrations. Fantasies that never come true.
Anne Fortier
#8. And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his ...
Anne Fortier
#9. Men always like to blame women for everything that goes wrong. Look at Adam and Eve.
Anne Fortier
#10. Instead, a strange voice whispered, "How can love be a sin? If God did not want us to love, then why did he create such beauty as yours?" Giulietta gasped in surprise and fear. "Romeo?
Anne Fortier
#11. In the face of a true friend a man sees, as it were, a second self. - CICERO, De Amicitia I
Anne Fortier
#12. I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.
Anne Fortier
#14. Why must a woman always surrender? I am not prey!"
"No I am. Your arrow struck me long ago." Paris took her hand and placed it on his chest."Right here. And every time I try to pull it out." He used her hand to demonstrate. "You force it back in.
Anne Fortier
#15. There are some things," he said softly, "that a princess has to do alone.
Anne Fortier
#16. Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.
Anne Fortier
#17. We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss.
Anne Fortier
#18. I should have never taught you girls to read! I suspect you have been reading the Bible behind my back-that is enough to fill a girl's head with folly?
Anne Fortier
#19. 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
#20. But are you not fond of me?" Paris looked up, his eyes full of reproach."Fond of you? Myrina you are my queen. I want you more than I want life itself.
Anne Fortier
#21. Or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.
Anne Fortier
#22. Fear not! I would rather tear the heart from your bosom than take your bow, for I believe you would miss it less.
Anne Fortier
#23. Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.
Anne Fortier
#24. That is the lightest coffin I have ever carried," observed one of Romeo's companions. "Your [bell]ringer must have been a very slender man, Friar Lorenzo. Make sure to choose a fat one next time that he may stand more firmly in that windy bell tower.
Anne Fortier
#25. To Hell with the cherub! roared Comandante Marescotti.
Anne Fortier
#26. I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.
Anne Fortier
#27. It's what we call a dolce pazzia ... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
Anne Fortier
#28. What's rule number two?" Granny stopped, her hands on the back of a chair, and looked straight at me. "Always make sure," she said, slowly, to ensure I paid attention, "that they underestimate you. That is the key.
Anne Fortier
#29. Knowledge can be a dangerous thing - " "Not as dangerous as ignorance.
Anne Fortier
#30. But then, as Myrina knew only too well, it is the loss of hope that kills the prey
the loss of will to keep struggling.
Anne Fortier
#31. Constancy is my true nature! I shall never look at another woman for the rest of my days, or rather, I shall look, but they shall be to me like chairs, or tables. Not that I intend to sit, of course, or eat off them, but in the sense that they are but furniture.
Anne Fortier
#32. 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
#33. In no other place had I ever seen female purity celebrated by a 355-foot phallic object. But maybe that was me.
Anne Fortier
#34. 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
#35. Only kings are put in writing, you know. Kings and heroes. The rest of us are but fading echoes in the valley of eternity.
Anne Fortier
#36. Stay away from stingy people. They are trapped in small souls.
Anne Fortier
#37. Of course, I always knew I was Romeo, but I had never thought much about Giulietta before. Now I started thinking about her, and I realized that it was a very strange thing to be Romeo, when there is no Giulietta in the world. Strange and lonely.
Anne Fortier
#38. What kind of woman agrees to a blind date at the top of a tower? And what kind of man spends his nights with a helmet on his head, visor closed, communicated with people via tennis balls?
Anne Fortier
#39. Why are we so eager to turn a beautiful myth into reality? I
Anne Fortier
#40. death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!
Anne Fortier
#41. 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
#42. You can tease it's mane all you like, but you can't turn a house cat into a lion.
Anne Fortier
#43. When the old men fight, the young people die.
Anne Fortier
#44. I must have you, completely, at my table and in my bed, or I shall waste away like a starving prisoner. There you have it; forgive the lack of poesy.
Anne Fortier
#45. In his usual fashion, Stalin had wholly denied the defeat; by refusing to take the bodies of his soldiers back, he had left it to the Finns to bury the men sent to destroy them.
Anne Fortier
#46. But most important, it made me look as if I ate hidden heirlooms - and financial advisors - for breakfast.
Anne Fortier
#47. The night belonged to the bold, to the crazed and to the artist
often one and the same
Anne Fortier
#48. Here, we chop wood to keep warm. If you think that's amateurish, all I can say to you is this: You are more vulnerable than you think.
Anne Fortier
#49. Alas, the world turned out so very different from the noble battleground she had led me to expect. The stakes were puny, the people gray and gutless; my Amazon arts were futile here.
Anne Fortier
#50. Ask yourself this: 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
#51. 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
#52. Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.
Anne Fortier
#53. It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.
Anne Fortier
#54. In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.
Anne Fortier
#55. I will say to you what the scientists say about the small particles in the universe: I can't show you where they are, I can only show you where they were.
Anne Fortier
#56. Personally, I am beginning to think death is mostly a matter of opinion.
Anne Fortier
#57. Yes you may come." Paris held up a hand to delay Myrina's raptures. "But this time you will not be wearing my crown. You will be my slave, and believe me I shall enjoy ordering you around.
Anne Fortier
#58. I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.
Anne Fortier
#59. Did your patron specify a motif? Usually I do a standard Virgin Mary from the waist up, and in this case I will throw in Babe Jesus for free, since you have come all this way.
Anne Fortier
#60. It is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
Anne Fortier
#61. We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
Anne Fortier
#62. As you say, nature taunts us with our weaknesses.
Myrina took Klito by the shoulders, 'It is not a taunt, but a challenge.
Anne Fortier
#63. 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
#64. If you want to keep the bad guys in check, make sure the good guys are armed.
Anne Fortier
#65. You can put a girlfriend on a motorcycle, yes, but what about your children and your bridesmaids, and your mother-in-law?
Anne Fortier
#66. Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.
Anne Fortier
#67. Knights don't cry."
"They certainly do," said the Comandante, taking the boy's hand, "but only when they are clean and dressed, and wearing shoes. Do you think you can wait that long?"
"I'll do my best.
Anne Fortier
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. It didn't really matter that we couldn't understand each other, what mattered were those little smiles and nods that said so much more than words.
Anne Fortier
#71. 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
#72. You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.
Anne Fortier
#73. Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
Anne Fortier
#74. In her exquisite handwriting, Eva Maria anticipated that her clothes might not fit me perfectly. But, she concluded, it was better than running around naked.
Anne Fortier
#75. Yself standing in front of Monticello wearing a veil and a wedding gown, hand in hand with a very muscular President Jefferson.
Anne Fortier
#76. Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.
Anne Fortier
#77. Shush!" said Ambrogio to the dog, "I advise you to hide, in case it is the horned one trying to get in. I know him a great deal better than you.
Anne Fortier
#78. But I was no philosopher, and the sun was beginning to let me know that it was the hour when only mad dogs and Englishmen exposed themselves to its rays.
Anne Fortier
#79. Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
Anne Fortier
#80. I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
Anne Fortier
#81. Everything has a shadow-side. In my opinion, that is what makes life interesting.
Anne Fortier
#82. We are the Amazons, killers of men. Only the feeble-headed try their luck with us.
Anne Fortier
#83. We are the Amazons" said Myrina."We are the killers of beasts and men. Wild ourselves, we inhabit the wild places. Freedom courses in our blood, and death whispers at the tip of our arrows. We fear nothing, fear runs from us. Try to stop us, and you will feel our rage.
Anne Fortier
#84. He is right. You have to feel it" - she reached out and touched a hand to my chest- "in here.
Anne Fortier
#85. Remember: women may not be too weak
To strike a blow.
-Sophocles, Electra
Anne Fortier
#86. She squared her shoulders against his charms. "It depends on who kisses me. I highly suspect a kiss from you would instantly void sixteen years of savings."
"What good are savings if you never spend them?
Anne Fortier
#87. Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.
Anne Fortier
#88. 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
#89. Paris shook his head.Do you think I would teach just anyone to fight me to the death? I want you to be my wife. My one and only wife.
Anne Fortier
#91. 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
#92. And so we walked through customs arm in arm; while the officer barely looked at my passport, he did look twice at Eva Maria's cleavage.
Anne Fortier
#93. It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.
Anne Fortier
#95. You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
Anne Fortier
#96. You owe me nothing, but I want everything.
Anne Fortier
#97. Careful!" warned Friar Lorenzo, trying to close the lid. "You know not what infection those lips carry!
Anne Fortier
#98. Exceptions are the exceptions, and finds are like ants; whenever you see one, you may be sure there are twenty.
Anne Fortier
#99. I believe in blessings," he replied, against my temple, "I believe that for every curse, there is a blessing.
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#100. Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do.
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