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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
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Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose 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. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.Anne Fortier
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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.Anne Fortier
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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.Anne Fortier
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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 FortierAnne Fortier
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He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fully understood until that moment. It was more apology than accusation---a dark stare of acknowledgment that told her he had long since seen his own fate in her actions, and had long since ceased to hold her responsible.Anne Fortier
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We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.Anne Fortier
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You can tease it's mane all you like, but you can't turn a house cat into a lion.Anne Fortier
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.Anne Fortier
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Courage has no age.Anne Fortier
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Juliet by Ann Fortier. The Maestro (Chapter5). . the slight nausea he was feeling must be somewhat near what God was feeling every minute of every day. If indeed He felt anything. He was, after all, a divine being, and it was entirely conceivable that divinity was incompatible with emotion. If not, then the Maestro sincerely pitied God, for the history of mankind was nothing more than a long tale of tears.Anne Fortier
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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.Anne Fortier
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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.Anne Fortier
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It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.Anne Fortier
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Neeta showed us there can be as much virtue in the things we do not do as on those we do.Anne Fortier
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...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
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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
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It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.Anne Fortier
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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