Juliet Anne Fortier Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I am not callow enough to suppose that books are not powerful
on the contrary, a book is the most delicious of paradoxes, an inert collection of symbols which are capable of changing the universe when once the cover is opened.

Lyndsay Faye

#3. Come on! You were the one who told me I was Paris! Rich, handsome, and evil. Of course I want Juliet to test-drive me." He looked over and grinned, enjoying my scowl. "What kind of Paris would I be if I didn't?

Anne Fortier

#4. The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth
And then returning to earth, forever alternating.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.

Rick Warren

#6. You know, I've heard you actually have to have sex to get pregnant.

Stephanie Perkins

#7. No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

George Matthew Adams

#8. We live in a society where everything's packaged.

Paloma Faith

#9. Getting out on stage and playing music for people feels great when people are cheering for you, that's obviously really exciting. But what's most exciting is the idea that we're all experiencing something that's bigger than us.

Dan Mangan

#10. If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

William Graham Sumner

#11. I feel like I'm neither a girl nor a boy. I don't feel like a man.

Ariel Pink

#12. One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!

Richard Rohr

#13. I wouldn't want to do a whole movie with effects.

Stephen Dorff

#14. I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have the blueprints of what not to do ... I think I'd be a good parent, actually.

Drew Barrymore

#15. Writing my own novels in the '90s ... I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

Mary Doria Russell

#16. Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

Anne Fortier

#17. 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.

Sara Gruen