Quotes by Mary Balogh

104 quotes found

Canadian novelist · Welsh · 1811–1820

Welsh-Canadian novelist (born 1944)

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“Did people... really kiss like that? She had had NO idea. She had imagined being kissed, and in her imagination she had been swept away by the sheer romance of the meeting of lips. In her naivete s...”

— Mary Balogh, Simply Magic

kissing

“Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.”

— Mary Balogh, Simply Magic

security thread

“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 someon...”

— Mary Balogh

life-and-living

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

— Mary Balogh, Thief of Dreams

bliss fleeting fright heaven