“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?”

—  Mary Balogh

Source: The Devil's Web

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Welsh-Canadian novelist 1944

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