Top 60 Anne Fortier Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Stay away from stingy people. They are trapped in small souls.”

— Anne Fortier

2. “Only weak men want women to be weak.”

— Anne Fortier

3. “You owe me nothing, but I want everything.”

— Anne Fortier

4. “Never give up. Goodness will always outrun evil in the end.”

— Anne Fortier

5. “Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.”

— Anne Fortier

6. “It is madness. But sometimes, madness is the only path forward.”

— Anne Fortier

7. “Courage has no age.”

— Anne Fortier

8. “When the old men fight, the young people die.”

— Anne Fortier

9. “Don’t underestimate the power of events that happened a long time ago. That is the tragic flaw of modern man.”

— Anne Fortier

10. “I don’t know where I will be when you read this, but if I can, I will find you and whisper in your ear. The first thing I will whisper is this: Never give up. Goodness will always outrun evil in the end.”

— Anne Fortier

11. “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

12. “So now you know why I think all talk of borders and colors and nationalities is absurd. People try to pin you down on a map and paint you a certain color to make everything simple. But the world is far from simple, and intelligent human beings don’t like to be pinned down and painted by some hand in the sky, whether it belongs to a god, a priest, or a politician.”

— Anne Fortier

13. “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

14. “You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.”

— Anne Fortier

15. “I did not know my soul until I saw it’s reflection in your eyes.”

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16. “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

17. “Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me.”

— Anne Fortier

18. “While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.”

— Anne Fortier

19. “Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.”

— Anne Fortier

20. “You can tease it’s mane all you like, but you can’t turn a house cat into a lion.”

— Anne Fortier

21. “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.”

— Anne Fortier

22. “He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.”

— Anne Fortier

23. “Who knows, maybe there never was a curse. Maybe it was just us-all of us-thinking that we deserved one.”

— Anne Fortier

24. “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

25. “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

26. “Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.”

— Anne Fortier

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

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28. “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

29. “Knowledge can be a dangerous thing – ” “Not as dangerous as ignorance.”

— Anne Fortier

30. “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

31. “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.”

— Anne Fortier

32. “If you want to keep the bad guys in check, make sure the good guys are armed.”

— Anne Fortier

33. “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

34. “I believe in blessings,” he replied, against my temple, “I believe that for every curse, there is a blessing.”

— Anne Fortier

35. “There are some things,” he said softly, “that a princess has to do alone.”

— Anne Fortier

36. “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

37. “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

38. “Exceptions are the exceptions, and finds are like ants; whenever you see one, you may be sure there are twenty.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “Happiness is the worst threat to my business. Dreams are what it’s all about. Frustrations. Fantasies that never come true.”

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41. “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

42. “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

43. “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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44. “My consolation – is that, in one short month, you gave Paris more love than most people find in a lifetime. He was as happy as a man could be, he told me so himself. No grumpy old age for him, wondering why the pleasures of the world had passed him by. Although young, he had his fill, and he knew it.”

— Anne Fortier

45. “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

46. “We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.”

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

— Anne Fortier

48. “I think Shakespeare is everybody’s treasure.”

— Anne Fortier

49. “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

50. “We are the Amazons, killers of men. Only the feeble-headed try their luck with us.”

— Anne Fortier