Quotes from Mary Balogh

You don't think you will be sorry, Diana? No, she said. Do you think you will be? Only if I see you unhappy, he said. I will never forgive myself if I make you unhappy.

Of course she wished to go. How dreadful it would be not to be there but to be wondering every moment what was happening, imagining with whom he was walking and talking.

I am not your wife. We are strangers. Did I imagine that wedding service we attended together in a small church in Devon? he asked. Did I imagine that we consummated the marriage in a very thorough manner for two nights?

Estuve muerto durante diez años, mi amor, y me has devuelto la vida en sólo un año.

La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.

She wished that somewhere in her future there could be a man who would make the world an exciting place in which to live.

I shall surprise you and behave like a perfect gentleman.

They seemed very much alone together in the room.

Please believe me, darling, it will break my heart in two to leave you here. But I cannot take you. I must go quickly. Please understand.

Had he done the right thing to let her go without a word or a letter? Was he right to leave it so, to disappear from her life?

set out to net him. She had her godmother and his

She knew only that the evening before had been like some kind of nightmare in which everything that could have gone wrong had done so.

But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.

Acaso existía el amor verdadero? La vida sería muy triste si no existiera... En realidad, sería insoportable si los desengaños del amor romántico convirtieran a una persona en una cínica incurable.

He had taken Elizabeth into his arms and held her very close to him. I love you, he had said against her hair, and I shall come for you just as soon as I may.

He had glanced hastily around, but there were other riders in sight. He had had to content himself with lifting her hand, drawing her glove down to bare her wrist, and pressing his lips to the pulse there.

He had vaulted into the saddle and ridden down the driveway away from the sea and the cliffs, and away from her, without a backward glance. She had watched him, an ache in her heart, until a line of trees finally hid him from view.

Tomorrow she would have been free of him. She would have been on her way back to the life she had chosen for herself. And he had been unable to let her go.

That night had been the beginning of an idyllic few months. They had already been friends. Now they were also deeply in love.

And he had kissed her with as much hunger as she had felt. For the minute or two that they were in each other's arms, she was sure, the years had been swept back for both of them.

En ocasiones necesitamos tiempo para adquirir sabiduría y reparar los errores del pasado

He was no dream lover. He was Jack. And she loved him. And would no longer believe that it was a misplaced love. She loved him. No matter what. For always.

And I wanted so much to be able to set the world at your feet. I never wanted anything but you, she almost whispered.

Una luz moría también en él, cuando ella era infeliz.