“Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.” — 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
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, Sir Gerald, people rarely get what they deserve in this life. Perhaps that is why we have had to invent a… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an… — 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
“One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?," she said, "I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Painting for him, she had realized then, was neither a hobby nor just a way of earning a living. It was a… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“I do not expect you to understand, Mr. Cunningham. You do not have the experience to understand what has happened to me,… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's… — 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
“My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“All people, he thought with a sigh as he left the room, had their own demons to be fought—or not fought. Perhaps… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“I have been very unhappy , Anna—for all the obvious reasons," she said. "But in a strange way, that very fact is… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life?… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“When we last out at ourselves for having lost control, we are reminded that we never can be in total control, that… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“That is the excitement of life," he said when he was finished. "The not knowing. It is often best not to know.” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Stanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific… — 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
