5 Alice Borchardt Quotes on Memory

Alice Borchardt quotes on memory

1. 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

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

25. 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

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

41. till we meet again, my heart awaits you.' 'till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams'