“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
“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 do not believe there is right or wrong," he said. "there is only doing what one must do under given circumstances… — 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 something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and… — 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
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
“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
“The only thing you can neither plan nor control, my dearest love, the duke had once told her, is love itself. When… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That… — 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
“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
“His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy.… — 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
“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
“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
“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
Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to… — 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
“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
