Quotes from Mary Balogh

He doubtless thought I had you in the bushes ravishing you. Well, she said, you must admit that you had something not too far distant from that on your mind. A kiss? he said. Similar to ravishment? You malign me. I was about to kiss you, Diana, in the tradition of true romance.

Do you not know that I love you more than is good for me?

And then she caught the eye of the earl across the room. He was looking intently at her as if he could read her thoughts. For a moment, caught unawares, she felt the connection there had always used to be between them. She felt breathless.

A shocking humiliation, is it not? he said. What are we going to do about it, Allie? Marry each other as a consolation?

Tal vez las familias no siempre rechazan. Tal vez al menos a veces abren los brazos para acoger. Tal vez a veces se puede confiar en el amor.

And you have lost none of your wickedness either.

Elizabeth had tried to hate him in that first year when the pain had been intense enough to drive her almost out of her mind. But even then she had not been able to. The best she could do eventually was to dull all feeling, so that a mere empty ache would gnaw at her when her mind strayed to that episode in her life. She had trained herself to think of him, if at all, as he was at the beginning of their relationship.

I was completely enchanted, and have been ever since. Don't you know how you have turned my world upside down?

Oh Christopher, she thought, burying her face in her hands again, why? Why did you have to turn out this way? Or why did you not show yourself in your true colors before I was foolish enough to love you?

His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

it. And if you ever strike me, I shall hit back. If you ever use me in anger or out of a wish to punish, I shall leave you.

A veces es necesario volver atrás para poder seguir avanzando

She would never marry a rake, if you will pardon my plain speaking. Then she will reform him . . . A reformed rake makes the best of husbands, it is said.

looking down on them. There was no sky in the painting, only grass and flowers. Time crawled by when she was not painting, and sometimes even when she was. She could not see the Middlebury Park visitors leaving quickly enough. Perhaps her peace would be restored when they had gone away. When he had gone away.

Well, I think it was a very romantic thing to do, anyway . . . And very brave, too. Not many ladies would have the courage to kill themselves for love. Most would prefer to pine away.

I do not know what happened, Beth, she cried, but I do know it must have been something dreadful. You are both such dear people, and I know something quite extraordinary must have driven you apart.

Let us enjoy it, he said, his eyes looking directly into hers. We are both in need of some good memories, I believe.

But to see him again. To somehow free myself of the past completely.

Whom was one to believe? Life had become so complicated in the last few weeks that there seemed to be no certainties any longer. And she did not feel that her mind could cope with what was happening.

I think she is the most beautiful creature I have ever set eyes upon

No es fácil mirar el propio pasado, sobre todo cuando uno creía que se habían borrado todas las huellas.

Oh, she said. Well, that did not make any difference. I loved you regardless. And I loved you regardless, he said.

How foolish of her to have fallen into a dream.