4 Alice Borchardt Quotes on Strength

Alice Borchardt quotes on strength

4. 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

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

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

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