Anne Fortier Quotes

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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It is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.

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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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Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.

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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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It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.

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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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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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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.

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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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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!

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

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"death turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!

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She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women's lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.

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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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