Quotes by Mary Balogh

“And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly."Assuredly," she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.”

“Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.”

“I believe, he said gently, we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone ...”

“He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heavenat least in this lifewas neither a time nor a placeto be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again tol...”

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

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

“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?”

“Love is wanting to be with someone all the time.It is accepting the other person with all good qualities and bad and not wanting to change any of them. It is wanting to give affection and approval ...”

“Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.”

“If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of doing. You would never become a better man than what you started out being. P'raps this i...”

“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 ...”

“You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you.”

“We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.”

“Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.”

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

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

“She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of...”

“It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.”

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

“There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.What the devil was the reason?”