Quotes About Mary Balogh

Everyone had run to do her bidding. Soon only the three men--the three useless ones--had been left in the sitting room to fight terror and nausea and fits of the vapors. The door opened. Three pale, terrified faces turned toward it. -the three manly men waiting during a childbirth

I do hope you have not made it an impassioned speech, the duke said doubtfully. That would not be my style at all, you know.

Yes, it was finished. Now, everything was finished. Everything. She hit the frightening bottom of despair.

It is a long story, I'm afraid, sir. Yes, he agreed, they usually are.

You are despicable, she said, flushing, and you really are no gentleman.

I shall allow you to return to your trunks and your mice in the attic, then, he said. One hates to interrupt a lady when she is having fun.

Good Lord, even to his own ears they sounded like a pair of coconspirators being so overhearty in their enthusiastic simulation of innocence that they proclaimed themselves as guilty as hell.

And so Henry's resolve to leave, to disappear somewhere far away from this life that she had ruined so thoroughly, was hardened.

Was it possible that he still retained some of the old regard for her?

I fear the rain has stopped and it is time to squelch our way back through the grass to the house. If you were a gentleman, she said, you would carry me.

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?