I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have. Mary Balogh More Quotes by Mary Balogh More Quotes From Mary Balogh 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. Mary Balogh able mind impossible 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 motive prove past Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world. Mary Balogh soul imagination dream All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking? Mary Balogh taught heart facts But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices. Mary Balogh choices perfection children I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you. Mary Balogh grateful forever adventure Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden. Mary Balogh secret love-you people If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears. Mary Balogh worst madness pleasure He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant. Mary Balogh why-not devil mean Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on. Mary Balogh regret opposites numbers 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 growing-up broken children But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope. Mary Balogh color winter spring I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy. Mary Balogh flames eye fire I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again. Mary Balogh blessing love-you believe 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 far more exciting prospect than that silly static idea of a happily-ever-after. Would you not agree?" - Aidan Bedwyn Mary Balogh ever-after silly ideas Tears never were worth the effort of crying them. Mary Balogh cry effort tears Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it? Mary Balogh doe love-is sometimes 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. Mary Balogh lonely mother son Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it. Mary Balogh life-living first-time firsts It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on. Mary Balogh strange found heart
