Mary Balogh Quotes

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• A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

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  Passion, Sunset, Soul

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.67, Dell

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• Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

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  Decision, Moments, Turns

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• There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

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  Running, Ever After, Happily Ever After

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• Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

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  Perfect, Perfection, Moments

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• I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

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  Believe, Fate, Giving

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.237, Delacorte Press

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• I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.

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  Like Being Alone, Expression, Solitude

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.57, Delacorte Press

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

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  Pain

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

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  Breathing, Alive

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

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  Past, Facts, Forgotten

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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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  Believe, Heart, Opposites

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.376, Dell

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• I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

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  Wish, Doe, Compromise

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• And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

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  Moving, Twilight, Passion

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• Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

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  Powerful, Fear, Mastery

  Mary Balogh (2012). “The Proposal”, p.109, Delacorte Press

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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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  Past, Quiet, Moments

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• But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.

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  Two, People, Feelings

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

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  Hurt, People, Said

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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 be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.

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  Pain, Moving, Past

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.140, Delacorte Press

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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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  What If, Looking For Love, Safe

  Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.17, Dell

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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 I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.

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  Grateful, Adventure, Forever

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.258, Dell

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• Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.

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  Journey, Next Week, Choices

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.131, Delacorte Press

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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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  Hurt, Heart, Break Even

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.170, Hachette UK

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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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  Worthy, Make Sense

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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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  Firsts, First Time, Life Living

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.326, Delacorte Press

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• The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?

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  Pain, People, Giving

  Mary Balogh (2010). “A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series”, p.164, Hachette UK

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• I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

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  Sweet, Believe, Fighting

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