Alice Borchardt: Trending quotes

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

“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”

“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”

“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.”

“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”

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

“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””

“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””

“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.””

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

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

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

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

“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.””

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

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

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

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