Mary Balogh Quotes

Forever is not granted to any of us, the duchess said. Even tomorrow is not granted as by right. Any of us can go at any moment.

He loved me, she said, her voice leaden. It is so easy to take love for granted when one has always had it. I knew he loved me as I loved him, but I did not realize perhaps how much until all love was...

Home had always been a place to dream of.

I am free, you see, she said, to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you ha...

Why have you done all this for me? She turned her head to look at him. Tell me the truth.He shook his head slowly.I don't think I could have been more terrified of the devil than I was of you, she sai...

Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and...

What she ought to have done as soon as she discovered that Lady Webb was not in London to help her. She was going to find the Earl of Durbury if he was still in town. If he was not, she was going to f...

Instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of t...

Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species

Ah, these double meanings, she said. Who invented the English language, I wonder? He did not do a stellar job of it, whoever he was.

Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and those times when two or more of us would sit up talking far too late into the night. Which i...

Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.

And yet he had taken her to that inn wanting to soothe himself with feminine compassion and warmth. Her very silence and self-possession had inflamed him, angered him. He had wanted her to reach out t...

But Ashley had always understood. He had always known there was a person behind the silence - not just a person who listened with her eyes and would have responded in similar words if she could have,...

But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.

But he was not Matthew. He was everything that Matthew was not. He was safety and comfort and warmth. He was home. He was everything in the world that was hope and sunshine. He took a step toward her...

But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix o...

But that was the second version, she reminded him. In the first one you had died and gone to heaven and found it was a brothel..

But there really was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by huma...

Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.