Alice Borchardt Quotes

It is human, I think, when we encounter the marvelous to try and bring away some of it with us

One day she would be a formidable female, a creature to be reckoned with

I know love is eternal, so also are folly, lies and roses.

A hint of ‘I’m so pleased that you strong, handsome, stalwart men are going to stand between my flower-like beauty and danger,’ wouldn’t hurt either

She knew he was telling his soul what it needed to hear so that he could gather his courage to go and go what he must

You are very lovely now and soon you will be beautiful. Ant not in an ordinary way. Youth is always beautiful, but you are like some creatures of fairy born to bring ill to mortals. Only trouble can follow such gifts

Know you, boy, women are like cats and must explore any new place until they are satisfied. If they don’t they become weak and vain, fretful and ill

He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers

I apologize.” “you aren’t sorry and don’t apologize.”

Its easier to forget a thing without a name. I’ve learned to guard my affections.” “I know, you’ve never asked mine.”

I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures

He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him

God, to breathe. Air. You don’t know what it means until you cannot take a breath

Till we meet again, my heart awaits you.” “till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams”

Desire was only another weapon, like hunger, loneliness, and cold arrayed against him by his tormentors