Quotes by Mary Balogh

“Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.”

“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.”

“There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked on every moment for the rest of our lives. It is a ...”

“Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing," he said, "It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this wo...”

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

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

“Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?”

“Love does not last forever, then?""He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who neve...”

“Love is a connection with another person, either through birth or through something else that I cannot even explain. It is often just an attraction at first. But it goes far deeper than that. It is...”

“Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?”

“I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.”

“After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.”

“Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the lon...”

“And I need you, my love," he said. "I need you so much that I panic when I think that perhaps I will not be able to persuade you to come back with me to Enfield. I need you so much that I cannot qu...”

“As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped.But she had ...”

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

“My mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?”

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

“Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black do...”

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