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 p…

- Anne Fortier

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

- Anne Fortier

When the old men fight, the young people die.

- Anne Fortier

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 pas…

- Anne Fortier

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 Umber…

- Anne Fortier

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 yo…

- Anne Fortier

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

- Anne Fortier

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

- Anne Fortier

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

- Anne Fortier