The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all.… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“She wondered if she would have tumbled into love with him during the past week if her heart had been whole, if… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer.… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“But really there was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Wept for the death of an ardent and immature love that had been unable to bring any comfort or peace to the… — 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
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
The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that… — 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
