Alice Borchardt Quotes
d. 2007
Alice Borchardt (October 6, 1939 – July 24, 2007) was a writer of historical fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Also known as: Borchardt, Alice
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I know love is eternal, so also are folly, lies and roses.
Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?
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.”
Pleasure wouldn’t exist without the sharp bite of pain. Even the brief flash of orgasm is too intense to be absolutely pleasurable
Good practical intelligence. Why screech when there is no one to comfort you?
For what is a flower but life’s expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time
I saw he was now and always would be his own man
There’s no sense crying over what can’t be changed” “that’s what people cry over, things they can’t change”
I like a man willing to pay the price of his pleasures
I am no ordinary woman, and born to a different fate. I would not go whimpering.
Remember this central truth. Your enemy is there because he, too, has weighed the consequences of failure and accepts them. Play always to win, because nothing else matters
You’re frightening me” “be frightened. Sometimes its very intelligent to be afraid”
He is tremendously strong, she thought, and liked the idea, even as she had feared that strength when she first met him
For when women take revenge, it is with all their hearts and souls, not to mention considerable inventiveness and ingenuity
One day she would be a formidable female, a creature to be reckoned with
Have I your word?” “yes, you have my word. But, you don’t believe me.” “no, men’s promises to women are easily made and even more easily broken.”
It is human, I think, when we encounter the marvelous to try and bring away some of it with us
Till we meet again, my heart awaits you.” “till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams”
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