“Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises," he said. "Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this 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
“But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort… — 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 was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people… — 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
“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
“He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“ Camille, what happened to you must surely have been the very best thing that could possibly have happened. ... I wonder… — 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
“He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Life so often becomes a determined, relentless avoidance of pain - of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain has to… — 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
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
“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
“But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's… — 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
The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up… — 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
“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.” — 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
“Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?” — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
