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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  

✵ 6. October 1939 – 24. July 2007

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The Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen
Alice Borchardt
The Silver Wolf
The Silver Wolf
Alice Borchardt
The Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen
Alice Borchardt
The Silver Wolf
The Silver Wolf
Alice Borchardt
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Famous Alice Borchardt Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

Alice Borchardt Quotes about love

“He was magnificent, and I will never forget that in that moment, I first loved him. And I never stopped loving him. I do now and always will. No one ever brought me more sorrow or pain or joy than he did. No, nothing, not even my sons, has ever outweighed the love I feel and still feel for him. And I believe – had I known what the future held for us: all the trouble, torment, battle, and grief of our lives – I still believe that I would have yielded my heart into his keeping as I did then”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“She was afraid of men, with good reason, but she need not fear all of them. Cai loved her and somehow always would. But above all, she could trust him, because dishonesty wasn’t in him. Not always a good trait but a part of his nature. He kept faith without thinking about it at all. He couldn’t imagine not doing so”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“So easily can we destroy those things we love. Had his moment of wounded pride, his stupid frenzy, snuffed out that fragile courage? Would the strong spirit that survived so much anguish be ended as easily as this?”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“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”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Some of the captured women killed themselves. I didn’t. others yielded and learned to love their captors. I wouldn’t do either one. I knew I would escape. Death is forever; to learn to love the hand that crushes you is a shame not to be borne. Pain and slavery will pass. I believed this and it kept me alive”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“I was angry with you about him, furious that he so much as set eyes on you. I would rather kill you than see you lie in his arms.” “is that love then? A thing that leads to murder?” “I don’t know. In all honesty, I don’t know. You’re mine. What’s mine I keep, I rule, and give my body over to defend. I offer you my honor, and my life. That’s not an easy thing. Its within your power to break my pride, and take that life, insignificant though it is.” “you put it very simply.” “its not. Such a gift rouses strange passions, fears of treachery, and deep distrust. I’m not immune to them.” “no one told me it would be like this. Perhaps it won't go into words, what I feel for you. Its not desire, yet I love your touch, the warm softness of your flesh against mine.””

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

Alice Borchardt Quotes about women

“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”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“for when women take revenge, it is with all their hearts and souls, not to mention considerable inventiveness and ingenuity”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“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”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“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

“He smiled at her, and she felt uncomfortable as she always did when he showed her affection as opposed to lust. Lust she expected from a man but not affection. The men in her life, her brothers and father, had not been affectionate; and lust would have been inappropriate, though she saw them direct that at other women, usually women of low rank, ripe to be used and cast aside”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“And then he remembered that the other function of sex is punishment – men use it to humiliate women. And since turnabout is fair play, women often use it to humiliate men”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

Alice Borchardt: Trending quotes

“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

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

Alice Borchardt

The Wolf King

Alice Borchardt Quotes

“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

“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

“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, 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

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

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“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”

Alice Borchardt book The Silver Wolf

The Silver Wolf

“Everybody always knows where they stand with you, don't they?”

Alice Borchardt

The Raven Warrior

“Good practical intelligence. Why screech when there is no one to comfort you?”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“The eyes were too intense, tortured almost. He was tall, but the body was wiry rather than powerful. Nature had gifted him with a cat’s grace and lethal swiftness, rather than the raw power of a bull”

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“Do you hate me so much?” “no, I can’t hate you. I wish I could, but I can’t””

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“At worst, they were vile creatures who needed to be wiped from the face of the earth. At best, such behavior shows a dangerous lack of self-control. The first business of a warrior is self-restraint”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“He knew he should be furious, but he couldn’t sustain a decent rage around her. She had too much about her of the ferocious kitten. Something small and fuzzy, just learning it had claws and how to use them”

Alice Borchardt

Beguiled

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

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

“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””

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Don’t flaunt your ignorance or try to insult me. I don’t suffer fools gladly and insults irritate me”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“For what is a flower but life’s expressed passion for itself. Sudden and brief, but certain and eternal at the same time”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“You should leave that place, my girl” “you know me better than that.” “yes, I do. Too brave for your own good. Too brave now, I think.” “would you have me any less?” “I’m sorry. No, I wouldn’t have you less.””

Alice Borchardt

Devoted

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

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“I wish. I don’t know what I wish. That you were less I were more, perhaps. Yes, just possibly that’s it”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“Thats the trouble. all i wanted was a tumble in the hay. oh, boy, i said. ill bet that cute thing is fun and games. what he doesn't know about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, i can sure teach him”

Alice Borchardt

The Raven Warrior

“I am no ordinary woman, and born to a different fate. I would not go whimpering.”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“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”

Alice Borchardt

Beguiled

“Shes direct enough”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

The Dragon Queen

“till we meet again, my heart awaits you.”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

“till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams”
The Dragon Queen

“I apologize.”

Alice Borchardt book The Dragon Queen

“you aren’t sorry and don’t apologize.”
The Dragon Queen

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