Mary Balogh

“Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at…

— Mary Balogh

“And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all.…

— Mary Balogh

“Had she read any good books lately? At all? She could tell him that she was going to take out a subscription…

— Mary Balogh

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

— Mary Balogh

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

— Mary Balogh

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

“She did not move, and now she was the Amazon as well as the schoolmistress. She really was a disconcerting female.”

— Mary Balogh

“I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is…

— Mary Balogh

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

— Mary Balogh

“She was not sure that her deafness had strengthened her character. She was not even sure she had met a challenge. A…

— Mary Balogh

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude,…

— Mary Balogh

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

— Mary Balogh

I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same…

— 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

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

— Mary Balogh

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

— Mary Balogh

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one…

— Mary Balogh

“this has been a birthday best forgotten.” “Most birthdays are, milord,” his man said agreeably”

— Mary Balogh

“Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.”

— Mary Balogh

“Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It…

— Mary Balogh

“By the time she had finished, her hand was in Elizabeth's firm clasp again. Her touch was strangely comforting—a woman's touch signifying…

— Mary Balogh

“There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]”

— Mary Balogh

“Now she realized she had never been kissed before. Not really. Not like this. Ah, never like this.”

— Mary Balogh

“when one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or…

— Mary Balogh

“One cannot try marriage. Once one is in, there is no way out.”

— Mary Balogh