I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Tonight he would do anything in the world for her. Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“She did not move, and now she was the Amazon as well as the schoolmistress. She really was a disconcerting female.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“That was the heart of the difference, she thought. In her world she had learned to be . Other people seemed to… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she felt that her heart would ssurely break. But she knew that hearts did not literally break because their owners were… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“He had not forgiven her and doubted that he ever would or could. And during his own brief visit to her and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises," he said. "Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“What sort of man could you love for a lifetime?" he asked her. She was silent for a while. He guessed that she was… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“Sometimes love was to be grasped in any form and in any manner it was offered. And sometimes love must be given in the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that all life… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“This is your home,’ he said. ‘You are mistress of Finchley Park, Vanessa. You may do whatever you wish.’ Her smile broadened. ‘Within reason,’… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination… — Mary Balogh Copy Share
“One could not change the past anyway. Why let it blight the present and the future?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share
I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. — Mary Balogh Copy Share
