Mary Balogh

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

— Mary Balogh

“You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet.”

— Mary Balogh

“Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.”

— Mary Balogh

“It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.”

— Mary Balogh

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

— Mary Balogh

“There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught.”

— Mary Balogh

“siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados”

— Mary Balogh

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

— Mary Balogh

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their…

— Mary Balogh

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back…

— Mary Balogh

“...Miss Blanche Heyward, opera dancer, would have made a superlative drill sergeant if she had just been a man.”

— Mary Balogh

“You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you…

— Mary Balogh

“She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the…

— Mary Balogh

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

— Mary Balogh

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

— Mary Balogh

“La vida nos es insoportable a todos a veces —dijo ella—. No creo que haya nadie lo bastante afortunado como para escapar…

— Mary Balogh

“This was it. This was what she had longed for throughout the lonely years of her girlhood. Suddenly she felt lonelier than…

— Mary Balogh

“And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly. "Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and…

— Mary Balogh

“Sometimes she felt that her heart would ssurely break. But she knew that hearts did not literally break because their owners were…

— Mary Balogh

“I like your voice. That sounds ridiculously lame, I know. But when you cannot see, Miss Fry, sound and the other senses…

— Mary Balogh

“(Edward describing Angeline's bonnet) "Then it is overbright and those colors should never been seen togther upon the same person, not to…

— Mary Balogh

“Tell me, Lady Angeline, is there a color not represented in your rather splendid riding hat? It would be a shame if…

— Mary Balogh

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of…

— Mary Balogh

“Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm…

— Mary Balogh

“She looked at him, her eyes brimming with laughter again. Joel sat gazing at her, wondering how much attention she was drawing…

— Mary Balogh

“what she ought to have done as soon as she discovered that Lady Webb was not in London to help her. She…

— Mary Balogh

“My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We…

— Mary Balogh

“Where was Bewcastle? But then he was there, standing on the terrace some distance away, and such was the power of his…

— Mary Balogh

“But Ashley had always understood. He had always known there was a person behind the silence - not just a person who…

— Mary Balogh

“Miss Fry had been borne off, as planned, Hugo reported, to be outfitted from head to toe for her wedding and her…

— Mary Balogh

“If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of…

— Mary Balogh

“Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual…

— Mary Balogh

“Why say something," he asked her, "if your words mean nothing?”

— Mary Balogh

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

— Mary Balogh

“Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments.”

— Mary Balogh

“But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.”

— Mary Balogh

“Every...woman," the old lady said, "loves a ...rogue.”

— Mary Balogh

“...but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.”

— Mary Balogh

“It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing”

— Mary Balogh

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

— Mary Balogh