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Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her. — Mary Balogh

For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world, — Mary Balogh

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. — Mary Balogh

We often do not say what is in our hearts," he said, "to those who are closest and most dear to us. — Mary Balogh

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments. — Mary Balogh

It is also for stepping into the unknown," Claudia said, "when it would be easier to cling what it familiar and safe. — Mary Balogh

Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge? — Mary Balogh

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

there was many a slip twixt cup and lip. — Mary Balogh

There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [ ... ] — Mary Balogh

We all learn to bury a broken heart beneath layers of dignity — Mary Balogh

more annoying than her general righteousness. But Camille — Mary Balogh

We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow. — Mary Balogh

But it was possible to teach what one could not practice. — Mary Balogh

One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest. — Mary Balogh

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry. — Mary Balogh

He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said.
But which half did they mean? — Mary Balogh

We can all be hurt. — Mary Balogh

I prefer to think of marriage as an equality of give and take. — Mary Balogh

Life is a precious possession ... It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan — Mary Balogh

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of? — Mary Balogh

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain. — Mary Balogh

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part. — Mary Balogh

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down. — Mary Balogh

I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment. — Mary Balogh

Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love? — Mary Balogh

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair. — Mary Balogh

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. — Mary Balogh

That is the excitement of life," he said when he was finished. "The not knowing. It is often best not to know. — Mary Balogh

Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path? — Mary Balogh

Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free? — Mary Balogh

Had he healed one wound only to open another? — Mary Balogh

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. — Mary Balogh

with a cluster of other servants. — Mary Balogh

Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible. — Mary Balogh

Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex. — Mary Balogh

We sighted people are often neglectful of the power of sound. — Mary Balogh

Ah, these double meanings," she said. "Who invented the English language, I wonder? He did not do a stellar job of it, whoever he was. — Mary Balogh

How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged. — Mary Balogh

played any sort of game. Ten. — Mary Balogh

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise. — Mary Balogh

He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right. — Mary Balogh

It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth. — Mary Balogh

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

My mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end? — Mary Balogh

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles. — Mary Balogh

Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed. — Mary Balogh

It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do. — Mary Balogh

We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same. — Mary Balogh

Negativity could be frighteningly contagious. — Mary Balogh

There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught. — Mary Balogh

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all? — Mary Balogh

I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping. — Mary Balogh

Love does not deck the beloved in chains. It just is. — Mary Balogh

Constance had joined him at the breakfast — Mary Balogh

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing. — Mary Balogh

I came, he said.
Good Lord! If there were an orator-of-the-year award, he would be in dire danger of winning it. — Mary Balogh

People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it. — Mary Balogh

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.
What the devil was the reason? — Mary Balogh

Living in a house with a large library," she said, "is a little like living in heaven — Mary Balogh

Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt. — Mary Balogh

You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet. — Mary Balogh

Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham. — Mary Balogh

To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations. — Mary Balogh

It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being. — Mary Balogh

Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness. — Mary Balogh

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language — Mary Balogh

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free. — Mary Balogh

Why do I want to run from happiness? — Mary Balogh

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

But hell need not be eternal unless one chooses to make it so. — Mary Balogh

Openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness. — Mary Balogh

I will love you all my life and even beyond that," he said. "You will always be my only love. — Mary Balogh

He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it. — Mary Balogh

But that is what life is all about, he said. It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love. — Mary Balogh

Leave love to take its course. — Mary Balogh

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything. — Mary Balogh

Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts. — Mary Balogh

Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach. — Mary Balogh

Every...woman," the old lady said, "loves a ...rogue. — Mary Balogh

Dreams are wishes that will in all probability never come true. (Sophie) — Mary Balogh

Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace. — Mary Balogh

Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came. — Mary Balogh

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude. — Mary Balogh

Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo?" the duke asked. "Not really." Hugo sighed. "I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too — Mary Balogh

He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude? — Mary Balogh

He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place.
And forever different. — Mary Balogh

It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it? — Mary Balogh

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness. — Mary Balogh

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

Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave. — Mary Balogh

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one. — Mary Balogh

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him. — Mary Balogh

Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery. — Mary Balogh

One cannot try marriage. Once one is in, there is no way out. — Mary Balogh

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it? — Mary Balogh

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

After you have broken my heart and left me, I will remember that we are always and ever connected. — Mary Balogh

You really love me?" she asked wistfully.
"The devil!" he exclaimed, looking over his shoulder. "Did I forget to say it? The thing I came to say? — Mary Balogh

...but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually. — Mary Balogh