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Mary Balogh Quotes | Quotes said by Mary Balogh

  • Mary Balogh Quote #1

    Adaptamos nuestra vida a las circunstancias y cogemos la felicidad donde la encontramos, aun cuando sólo sea en momentos pasajeros. O hacemos eso o nos perdemos la oportunidad de aceptar la gracia en nuestra vida. Este es un momento feliz. Lo recordaré.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #2

    After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #3

    Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises, he said. Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #4

    All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?

  • Mary Balogh Quote #5

    Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
    Life itself had become a secret affair.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #6

    And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #7

    And I need you, my love, he said. I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot quite contemplate the rest of my life if it must be lived without you. I need you so much that—Well, the words speak for themselves. I need you.

    To look after Augusta? she said. She dared not hear what he was surely saying. She dared not hope. To look after Enfield? To provide you with an heir?

    Yes, he said, and her heart sank like a stone to be squashed somewhere between her slippers and the parlor carpet.And to be my friend and my confidant and my comfort. And to be my lover.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #8

    And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all. He disliked her, he resented her, he disapproved of almost everything about her, yet he was head over ears in love with her, like a foolish schoolboy.
    He wondered grimly what he was going to do about it.

    He was not amused.

    Or in any way pleased.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #9

    And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #10

    And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy? he said softly.
    Assuredly, she said, provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #11

    As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped.
    But she had said that perhaps it was from himself he wished to escape and that it could not be done. For wherever he went, he must inevitably take himself along too.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #12

    Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

  • Mary Balogh Quote #13

    But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #14

    But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

  • Mary Balogh Quote #15

    But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #16

    But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #17

    But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #18

    But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #19

    Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?

  • Mary Balogh Quote #20

    Creo que todos soñamos. ¿Cómo, si no, conseguir a veces que la vida resulte soportable?

  • Mary Balogh Quote #21

    Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #22

    Did people... really kiss like that? She had had NO idea. She had imagined being kissed, and in her imagination she had been swept away by the sheer romance of the meeting of lips. In her naivete she had not considered the possibility that a kiss, as a prelude to sexual activity, might have powerful effects on parts of her body, in fact, even parts she had been only half aware of possessing. She ached and throbbed in all sorts of unfamiliar places

  • Mary Balogh Quote #23

    Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #24

    Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #25

    Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #26

    Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
    No one was shallow. Not really.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #27

    Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #28

    Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate gift.
    He had thought himself done with romantic love. He had thought himself an incurable cynic.
    He was not, though.
    He was only someone whose heart and mind, and very soul, had been battered and bruised. It was still - and always - safe to give since there was a certain deal of control to be exerted over giving. Taking, or allowing oneself to receive, was an altogether more risky business.
    For receiving meant opening up the heart again.
    Perhaps to rejection.
    Or disillusionment.
    Or pain.
    Or even heart break.
    It was all terribly risky.
    And all terribly necessary.
    And of course, there was the whole issue of trust...

  • Mary Balogh Quote #29

    Families are wonderful institution, he said. I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that.

  • Mary Balogh Quote #30

    Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

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