Mary Balogh Quotes

And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a so...

I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos...

It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.

Adaptamos nuestra vida a las circunstancias y cogemos la felicidad donde la encontramos, aun cuando sólo sea en momentos pasajeros. O hacemos eso o nos perdemos la oportunidad de aceptar la gracia en...

Miss Abigail Westcott, he had concluded during the past week, when he had watched her far more than he had wanted to and far more than was good for him, did most of her living inside herself. Like an...

I do not want to drain all your light, Percy, she said.Something sparked in his eyes.But there is never an end to light, Imogen, he told her, or to love. I'll fill you so full of light that you will g...

He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.

Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.

We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.

They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.

You must be a good girl.  Yes, Uncle, she said.  A pity, though, he said. His assets and mine combined, Cass. Ah, well, Mr. Westhaven will be a baron one day, though the present baron is said to be in...

You really love me? she asked wistfully.The devil! he exclaimed, looking over his shoulder. Did I forget to say it? The thing I came to say?

You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.

If I had smiled and fawned over you at Lady Mannering’s ball, she said, and if I had simpered and giggled during the drive in Hyde Park, you would have lost interest in me in a moment, Lord Ravensberg...

Rapists do not deserve to live. And

Have you noticed, she asked him, how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind.

He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said.But which half did they mean?

The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

What sort of man could you love for a lifetime? he asked her.She was silent for a while. He guessed that she was considering her answer. A kind man, she said. When we are young and foolish we do not r...