Mary Balogh Quotes

The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you.

There is a terrible pain,' she said softly, 'about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.

Yet now he felt that perhaps he had missed one of the few chances life offered to step off the wheel of routine and familiarity and duty to discover if there was joy somewhere beyond its turning.

You have a disconcerting way of looking at me so directly that I feel as though you could see right through into my soul, Mr. Cunningham, she said. I suppose it is the artist in you.

Move a little faster than we originally planned, it is true, but we could rise to the challenge. We have been very successful during our first year. Rebecca, he said, turning to face her, I must tell...

Park came into view—the double arched stone bridge over the fast-flowing river;

Studied its architecture and intricate decoration

Edward describing Angeline's bonnet)Then it is overbright and those colors should never been seen togther upon the same person, not to mention the same . he said. And it actually suits you perfectly....

Having a dream and being on the journey to fulfilling it sometimes brings more happiness than actually achieving it. We have a habit, do we not, of thinking happiness is a future state if only this an...

But most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.

Ah, those eyes, he said. They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent enough signs for deeper thoughts and feelings.

All people, he thought with a sigh as he left the room, had their own demons to be fought—or not fought. Perhaps that was what life was all about. Perhaps life was a test to see how well we deal with...

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 th...

And then, when I was at my lowest ebb, you came. And you somehow coaxed me into talking to you as though you were a trusted confidant. And then you flirted with me. For a few moments you bore me off w...

And what may I do for you? Jane had intended to try to draw her away to the refreshment room, but it seemed they were

Ben walked into the house and up the stairs with his two canes, but he propelled himself about much of the time after that in a wheeled chair, having decided that it was not an admission of defeat but...

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...

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

En ocasiones sucede algo tan catastrófico que durante un tiempo, a veces durante mucho tiempo, resulta imposible ver algo en la oscuridad,incluso parece imposible creer que haya algo más allá. Pero si...

Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.