Mary Balogh Short Quotes

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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

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I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.

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And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but...alive.

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

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I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

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Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

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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 language

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The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

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Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

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The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

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I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

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If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

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But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.

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It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

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She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

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Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

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Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.

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I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.

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Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

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Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

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Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

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This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

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Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

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