Alice Borchardt Quotes

Elin wondered, sitting in the sweat bath, what that had to do with passion or desire, and decided – nothing. It was justification. They had murdered the men and must prove, on the helpless bodies of the women, that they were truly stronger. Prove it to exhaustion… not even pleasure was in it for them

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

Then he turned and walked away, and I gazed after him in sorrow. “Don’t look so, girl. He’s the first to fall at your feet; he will not be the last”

One who forced another was beneath contempt. One who needed to was despised

the little death. What would or could be left of a human being after such an experience?

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

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