Mary Balogh citations

“The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.”

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

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

“One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Stop being so fruitlessly busy and. Use your. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.”

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

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

“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?”

“Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.”

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

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

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

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

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

“My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.”

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

“Sometimes now was enough.
Sometimes it was everything.”

“I do not admire greatness that has no substance.”

“Rapists do not deserve to live.”