Quotes from Mary Balogh

It is just a pity, he added, that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson.

If there was magic alive in this world, Julian thought after the first couple of minutes, it was surely present in the waltz danced with someone one loved more than life itself.

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 glow in the dark, and then when I want to love you in a very physical way I will be able to find you.

If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.

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

It was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.

Leave love to take its course.

I Know what you meant when you told me she was full of love and brimming over with it. And so innocent that one fears for her. Perhaps we ought not to fear for such people but for ourselves whose experience has taught us not to trust one another or life itself.

Ah, my love. Once dreams were shattered, there could be no assurance that they could ever be pieced together and dreamed again.

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 of body, mind, and spirit.

You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you.

Now was the time for now. Now was one of those rare and precious moments with which one was gifted from time to time. That was all it was. A moment. But it was one to be enjoyed to the full while it lasted and treasured for a lifetime after it was over.

No courage is needed if there is no fear, after all

Sometimes one does wonder if one lives quietly from choice or if in reality one is merely waiting for something that may never come.

It is the human condition. No one escapes, even those who may appear to others to live charmed lives. But we all have the choice of whether to be defined by the negatives in our lives or to make of our present and future and our very selves what we want them to be.

One of the most horrible realities about the death of someone closely related, she remembered, was the necessity of going on almost immediately with the trivialities of living. As though nothing of any real significance had changed.

But if you do get to know me, please let me know what you discover. I have no idea who I am.

siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados

What do you not have, Lord Hardford?" she asked. "For no one has everything, you know, or even nearly everything.

Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo único que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.

You still do not quite understand, do you? she said softly. I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in love with you the first time I saw you just because you are who you are.

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 deserve the object of your desire but can only hope for a miracle. You must expect that object instead, and it will be yours. There is no such thing as a miracle.

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

You have love all wrong, Gwendoline. It is not all give, give, give. It is taking as well. It is allowing the other one the pleasure and joy of giving. Let me love you.