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Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.
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For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world,
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We often do not say what is in our hearts," he said, "to those who are closest and most dear to us.
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Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
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It is also for stepping into the unknown," Claudia said, "when it would be easier to cling what it familiar and safe.
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You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.
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there was many a slip twixt cup and lip.
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There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [ ... ]
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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.
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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
But which half did they mean? — Mary Balogh
We can all be hurt.
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The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?
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Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
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It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
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Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
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I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.
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Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?
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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
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.
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That is the excitement of life," he said when he was finished. "The not knowing. It is often best not to know.
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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?
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Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?
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Had he healed one wound only to open another?
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The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
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with a cluster of other servants.
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Hugo could cheerfully have died of mortification - if such a mass of contradictions had been possible.
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Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.
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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.
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How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.
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played any sort of game. Ten.
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I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.
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He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.
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It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.
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Ah, my love. Once dreams were shattered, there could be no assurance that they could ever be pieced together and dreamed again.
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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?
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I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.
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Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.
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It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.
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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.
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Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.
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Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?
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I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.
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Love does not deck the beloved in chains. It just is.
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Constance had joined him at the breakfast
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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
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.
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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
What the devil was the reason? — Mary Balogh
You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet.
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It was in idleness that one came face-to-face with the I AM. With simple, elemental Being.
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Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.
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And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
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Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free. — Mary Balogh
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free. — Mary Balogh
Why do I want to run from happiness?
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I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
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Openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.
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I will love you all my life and even beyond that," he said. "You will always be my only love.
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He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.
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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.
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Leave love to take its course.
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Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
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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.
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Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.
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Every...woman," the old lady said, "loves a ...rogue.
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Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
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Perhaps today was all that mattered. Perhaps today was all anyone could expect. Perhaps tomorrow was always an illusion that never came.
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Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
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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
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He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude?
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He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place.
And forever different. — Mary Balogh
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?
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It was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.
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Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.
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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.
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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.
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Fear must be challenged, I have found. It is a powerful beat if it is allowed the mastery.
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But if you do get to know me, please let me know what you discover. I have no idea who I am.
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After you have broken my heart and left me, I will remember that we are always and ever connected.
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