Mary Balogh Quotes

The only thing over which we have any control whatsoever is the very next decision we make.

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 sai...

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

Wept for the death of an ardent and immature love that had been unable to bring any comfort or peace to the beloved. And wept for the woman he had taken to wife with such high ideals—the woman who had...

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and

Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.

There is something infinitely better than happily ever after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a far...

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

Negativity could be frighteningly contagious. Even

People, especially some religious people. would have us believe that it is wrong . even a sin, to love oneself. It is not. It is the basic, essential love. If you do not love yourself, you cannot poss...

Perhaps we should do the learning - and learn not to communicate, or to do it in a different way. Now there is a thought. Perhaps we could learn your peace if we could share your silence.

And some people have the gift of speaking thetruth and convincing their listeners that it is a lie.

Now she realized she had never been kissed before. Not really. Not like this.Ah, never like this.

We all learn to bury a broken heart beneath layers of dignity

She looked at him, her eyes brimming with laughter again. Joel sat gazing at her, wondering how much attention she was drawing from the other occupants of the room. But, however much it was, she seeme...

There was something different about his face. It was not quite smiling, but the disciplined austerity had somehow gone from it. It was as though he had allowed some of himself to come out from that pl...

She was Sophia Fry, though her name was rarely used. She was known by her relatives, when she was known as anything at all, and perhaps by their servants too, as the mouse.

There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught.

They knew only how to see what was wrong in their lives and in the world and never what was right. And that was precisely what she was doing now when thinking of them, Gwen realized with a mental shak...

But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.