Anne Fortier
Anne Fortier
Anne Fortier is a Danish / Canadian writer who has lived in the US and Canada since 2002. She was born to mother Birgit Malling Eriksen. Fortier submitted her first manuscript for publication at the age of 13. Since then, she has written the novels Hyrder på bjerget,Juliet, Julie, Amazonerne's Ringand The Lost Sisterhood...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionWriter
CountryDenmark
giving-up men indulge-in
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.
golf men long
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.
home past wind
as a bird swoops down on it's prey, and assumes this land bound wretch into heaven, so did romeo steal her lips before they fled him again. suspended somewhere between cherubs and devils, his quarry ceased to buck, and he spread his wings wide and let the rising wind carry them off across the sky, until even the predator himself had lost every hope of returning home. within that one embrace, [he] became aware of a feeling of certainty he had not thought possible for anyone - even the virtuous. with her in his arms, all other women, past, present, and future, simply ceased to exist.
hurt life-hurts worth-living
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
tragedy
Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.
cute weed flower
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.
blessing my-blessing paid
...and whether or not we had now paid our dues, he was my blessing, and I was his...
hate angel forget-everything
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.
reason instinct used
Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.
oxford challenges married
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.
order needs machines
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?
destiny cups influence
We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.
views different might
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.
reality wish flip
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.