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Alice Borchardt

Birthdate: 6. October 1939
Date of death: 24. July 2007

Alice Borchardt was an American writer of historical fiction, fantasy, horror. She shared a childhood of storytelling in New Orleans with her sister, the novelist Anne Rice, who was two years younger. A professional nurse, she also nurtured a profound interest in little-known periods of history. Wikipedia

Works

The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Alice Borchardt

The Silver Wolf

The Silver Wolf

Alice Borchardt

Quotes Alice Borchardt

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

— Alice Borchardt, book The Silver Wolf

In this world our hopes for the best are so often disappointed
Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and in time even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.
The Silver Wolf

„Love doesn’t go away because we want it to, but remains even when it becomes a searing pain, leaving the heart a desert of bitter remorse and grief for joy, a happiness that once has been and now never could return. There had been a time when simply to touch this little bit of linen he held now so casually brought every aching moment of that love back. The sense of desolate pain-drenched loss traveled up his arm, enclosing his heart like a set of icy fingers. A time when to look upon what it held was unbearable“

— Alice Borchardt

Unknown

Love, Pain, Travel, Sense

„Love is important, and woman being shrewd bargainers probably know fame is not worth much. I’d much rather have something I can spend, eat, or love, thank you very much“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge.“

— Alice Borchardt

Source: The Raven Warrior

Life, Death, Peace, Knowledge

„Women are weak, easily swayed by passion, driven by desire, lust. He lit a fire in her body, a fire that still burned, even in his absence“

— Alice Borchardt

Devoted

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

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„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“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„He was conscious that something in [his] personality bolstered his confidence and allowed him to rest, to seek peace and find it. He never game a name to it, and never spoke of it. And never, never would he have allowed himself or anyone to call it – love“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Love, Peace, Confidence, Game

„you’re frightening me” “be frightened. Sometimes its very intelligent to be afraid”“

— Alice Borchardt

The Wolf King

„You, why do you let me say such things when and where I shouldn’t?” “the problem is not ordering the course of your speech. Its shutting you up in the first place”“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„He said truth has a taste, and this had the taste of truth. A wolf would put it that way, but I agree it does. Some things just don’t hang together, but others do. And a lot of times when you encounter it, you say, “I don’t want this to be right, but it probably is, even though it brings me to grief.”“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Truth, Way, Wolf, Time

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

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„pleasure wouldn’t exist without the sharp bite of pain. Even the brief flash of orgasm is too intense to be absolutely pleasurable“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Silver Wolf

have you ever seen anyone who could take anything from me against my will, ever, anywhere, anytime?
The Silver Wolf

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

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„I saw he was now and always would be his own man“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„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.”“

— Alice Borchardt

Beguiled

„some men know from birth that they are expendable… they fought to won. If you did not win, you did not run either“

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

— Alice Borchardt

The Raven Warrior

God, Beauty, Flowers, Lying

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

— Alice Borchardt, book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

„There’s no sense crying over what can’t be changed” “that’s what people cry over, things they can’t change”“

— Alice Borchardt

Devoted

People, Sense, Change, Cry

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