Mary Balogh Quotes

Insults are only really effective, she said, when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter

More annoying than her general righteousness. But Camille

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into i...

I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, incl...

She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of he...

Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.''There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our head...

It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.

Love does not last forever, then?He asked me the same thing this morning, she said. No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never reall...

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

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble fre...

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

We all have to find our own way in life. It is, I believe, what life is all about.

I prefer to think of marriage as an equality of give and take.

The comforting thing about difficult days, Chloe had learned from experience, was that the sun rose at the start of them and set at the end just as it did on any other day. And there was always the as...