5 Alice Borchardt Quotes on Desire

Alice Borchardt quotes on desire

6. 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

12. 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

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

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

40. [he] was handsome. Just the sight of him stirred strange longings in me