Anne Fortier Quotes

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• Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

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  Stories

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.24, Ballantine Books

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• We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

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  Destiny, Cups, Influence

  Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.448, Ballantine Books

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

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  Believe, Love You, Great Love

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.149, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Views, Different, Might

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• When the old men fight, the young people die.

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  Fighting, Men, People

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.362, Ballantine Books

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• In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

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  Ideas, Training, Degrees

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• 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.

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  Reality, Wish, Flip

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• There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything you know as a human being. When you are human, you discover that there is great power in hating the earth. And it can almost make you fly. But it never will." I had frowned, not quite understanding him. "So, what's the trick?" "Love the sky.

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  Hate, Angel, Forget Everything

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.148, Ballantine Books

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• And whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his.

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  Blessing, My Blessing, Dues

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.444, Ballantine Books

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• ...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

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  Thinking, Fifty, Percent

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Italian, Law

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Poison

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.362, Ballantine Books

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• 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?

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  Letting Go, Years, Risk

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.372, Ballantine Books

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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.

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  Sorry, Asking, I Am Sorry

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.326, Ballantine Books

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• Only weak men want women to be weak.

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  Men, Weak Man, Want

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• The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

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  Book, Reading, Passion

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• 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.

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  Believe, Warrior, Past

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• Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

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  Reason, Instinct, Used

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.171, Ballantine Books

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• 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?

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  Order, Needs, Machines

  Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.532, Ballantine Books

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• You owe me nothing, but I want everything.

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  Want

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.130, Ballantine Books

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• I did not know my soul until I saw it's reflection in your eyes.

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  Love, Eye, Reflection

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• Don't underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.

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  Men, Long, Events

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.34, Ballantine Books

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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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  Suicide, Poison, Afternoon

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Cute, Weed, Flower

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.41, Ballantine Books

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• Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

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  Tragedy

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.128, Ballantine Books

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