Life Quotes by Mary Balogh

There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life.

— Mary Balogh

“Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan”

— Mary Balogh

“Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift.”

— Mary Balogh

“Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?”

— Mary Balogh

“How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.”

— Mary Balogh

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

— Mary Balogh

“He watched her go, wondering if life ever offered happiness in more than very small, very brief doses. T”

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Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.

— Mary Balogh

“It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing…

— Mary Balogh

“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an…

— Mary Balogh

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for…

— Mary Balogh

“Unfortunately, Sir Gerald, people rarely get what they deserve in this life. Perhaps that is why we have had to invent a…

— Mary Balogh

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

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

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And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing…

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“And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion…

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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…

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I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and…

— Mary Balogh

“I do not believe there is right or wrong," he said. "there is only doing what one must do under given circumstances…

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“Painting for him, she had realized then, was neither a hobby nor just a way of earning a living. It was a…

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“It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic…

— Mary Balogh

“I do not expect you to understand, Mr. Cunningham. You do not have the experience to understand what has happened to me,…

— Mary Balogh

“She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it…

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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

“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…

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“All people, he thought with a sigh as he left the room, had their own demons to be fought—or not fought. Perhaps…

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

— Mary Balogh

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a…

— Mary Balogh

“This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that…

— Mary Balogh

Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That…

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Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some…

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“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.”

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“But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.”

— Mary Balogh

“Stanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific…

— Mary Balogh

“But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort…

— Mary Balogh

“He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do…

— Mary Balogh

“That is the excitement of life," he said when he was finished. "The not knowing. It is often best not to know.”

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“Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in…

— Mary Balogh

“But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life?…

— Mary Balogh