Quotes from Mary Balogh

el matrimonio es un viaje, como la vida misma. No puedo esperar que sea perfecto desde el principio.

You aren't intending to spend your married life quarreling, I hope?" Claude said, frowning as his brother passed a hand nervously through his hair and turned to the door. "I intend to be happy," Lord Francis said. "I shall see to it that I quarrel with Soph every day of our lives, Claude.

But he had a certain presence and a charming smile that did not falter in such situations. A path opened for him as if by magic.

I thought my punishment was to be eternal," her mother said. "It is the millstone I have carried about my neck for well nigh forty years. I thought I would carry it to my grave.

Algunas cosas pertenecían al corazón de cada cual.

But it was not so much the fresh air that she needed as a few minutes of solitude, a few minutes in which to collect herself. She stood to the side of one open doorway, half hidden by the heavy velvet drapery, and felt a raw ache at the back of her throat. She wanted to cry, she realized. For all the great popularity and success the evening was bringing her she felt a terrible loneliness.

I think a marriage is for two people, Charles. But a wedding is for their families and friends.

And her beauty could be vibrant if she was allowed to be spontaneously herself and if she was secure in the love of those around her.

He was not sure how many minutes passed while they held each other and kissed each other as if they could never be close enough to satisfy the craving of their hearts. The depth of their very obviously mutual passion left him shaken and disoriented.

She had loved him mindlessly, passionately, for the following five years, until he had told her that he was going away and never coming back. And even beyond that she had loved him, painfully and against her will, until she had finally forced herself to forget. Or to tell herself that she had forgotten.

The countryside breeds cruel maidens.

En ocasiones sucede algo tan catastrófico que durante un tiempo, a veces durante mucho tiempo, resulta imposible ver algo en la oscuridad, incluso parece imposible creer que haya algo más allá. Pero siempre lo hay. Incluso, tal vez, en el momento de la muerte. Sobre todo en ese momento.

Damnation. There was no humor—none—in the situation. Or in life, either. It was all a vast joke that someone or something was playing on the human race. Except that it was not at all funny.

No one deserved to be totally disregarded, as though their very existence was of no significance. Everyone deserved to be noticed. To be treated with respect. To be listened to. To be recognized as a fellow human being.

Is there any chance at all that you still feel— I do. So do I, she said. They had understood each other perfectly. I love you. So do I. I love you too. Will you marry me? Yes.

Ese es el inconveniente de los sueños, [...]No siempre se hacen realidad. Pero siempre aparecen nuevos sueños con los que reemplazar los antiguos. En el fondo somos una especie llena de esperanza.

I don't know, Jack. I only know that I love you. And were prepared to pour out all that love in one single night with me? Yes. And don't, please, ask me why. I don't know why. And I did not even know that I would be willing to do something so rash until it happened. And I did not know that I love you until tonight.

Soon Elizabeth had considered him to be her closest friend. She looked forward to meeting him. With him she felt free to pour out her innermost thoughts.

believe most people live their lives within a radius of a few miles of their childhood homes," she said. "Not many people go adventuring. And even those who do have to take themselves with them. That must turn out to be a bit of a disappointment.

She had not got over him at all, in fact, and she was disgusted with herself when forced to admit the truth.

Pero había ciertos momentos a lo largo de la vida que definían a una persona para siempre... al menos ante sus propios ojos.

Women like to be pursued. Women like occasionally to be caught without their chaperones. Now go to her.

And she did not want to be reminded of how Christopher had changed. She wanted to remember him, if at all, as he had been before.

Peace is hard won, and the effort to keep it is ongoing. We must never become complacent in life. We must never feel we have arrived and there is nothing left to do but enjoy.