Mary Balogh Quotes

I am in awe, he said. Where do all these ideas come from? I think from a lifetime of only being able to observe and never being able to do, she said. I have twenty years of inaction to make up for.

I am not afraid of being single. I am afraid of making a marriage I would regret.

I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and...

If you want something, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, you will never get it. Want is a timid, abject word. It implies that you know you will be left wanting, that you know you do not des...

Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to...

One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one’s life.

There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]

There is something about boys, she said, that makes them think it is unmanly to show any feelings other than scorn and irritation or any enthusiasm for anything. It is a very unattractive trait.

What if I should drop the ring? Cyril asked on the way to the church. Surely one of the functions of the best man - the principal function, in fact - was the calm the nerves of the bridegroom. Then yo...

Your dog has not lost any time in catching up on his beauty sleep. Just do not utter any word that begins with w, she said, especially with the letters a-l-k attached. You would soon discover how deep...

He was asked, rhetorically, he guessed, if he supposed the irons would heat themselves, a question that was followed by a not particularly complimentary remark about men.

La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.

There is a l-life lesson here for all of us, is there, M-Mrs. Keeping? he asked her. We should all and always look upward, and all our t-troubles will be at an end? She smiled. If only life were that...