Quotes About Balogh

#1. Sed lex, dura lex," said Balogh. The latin phrase had been hammered into them from the first day of the Academy, and Simon was comming to hate the sound of it -so often was it used as an excuse for acting like monsters.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift.

Mary Balogh

#3. Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

Mary Balogh

#4. But if you do get to know me, please let me know what you discover. I have no idea who I am.

Mary Balogh

#5. 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 free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

Mary Balogh

#6. And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a soft exclamation of surprise

Mary Balogh

#7. ...but most roads I have learned from past experience lead somewhere eventually.

Mary Balogh

#8. I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment.

Mary Balogh

#9. But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.

Mary Balogh

#10. I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, and my strength too for whatever it is worth. You will never be a burden to me.

Mary Balogh

#11. Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere - somewhere - there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it. She

Mary Balogh

#12. Guilt can eat away at you and destroy the future as well as the past.

Mary Balogh

#13. The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?

Mary Balogh

#14. Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!

Mary Balogh

#15. I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.

Mary Balogh

#16. 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 her life to do it.

Mary Balogh

#17. We often do not say what is in our hearts," he said, "to those who are closest and most dear to us.

Mary Balogh

#18. Stanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific people who are left stranded in the land of the living, unable for all eternity to answer the plea

Mary Balogh

#19. A funny thing, love. It was not always, or even mostly, a sexual thing.

Mary Balogh

#20. Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is.

Mary Balogh

#21. We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.

Mary Balogh

#22. Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

Mary Balogh

#23. Ah, but we are women as well as teachers ... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species

Mary Balogh

#24. 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?

Mary Balogh

#25. Sometimes her capacity for self-deception disturbed her.

Mary Balogh

#26. But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.

Mary Balogh

#27. 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

#28. We all learn to bury a broken heart beneath layers of dignity

Mary Balogh

#29. He offered his arm and she took it. And the world was the same place.
And forever different.

Mary Balogh

#30. There was at least as much to learn as there was to be taught.

Mary Balogh

#31. And what may I do for you?" Jane had intended to try to draw her away to the refreshment room, but it seemed they were

Mary Balogh

#32. Was there to be some healing after all?
Was healing possible when grave damage had been done?
Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.

Mary Balogh

#33. Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.

Mary Balogh

#34. She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the devil his mind meant by presenting him with that odd idea.

Mary Balogh

#35. Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Mary Balogh

#36. One who has conquered every aspect of his pain except the deepest.

Mary Balogh

#37. One cannot try marriage. Once one is in, there is no way out.

Mary Balogh

#38. It is the gentleman's job to match his pace and his step to the lady's. men do not have. All the power in the world, you see, despite what women often believe.

Mary Balogh

#39. Unguarded moment she pictured herself waltzing with Viscount Whitleaf,

Mary Balogh

#40. 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

#41. There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [ ... ]

Mary Balogh

#42. 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.

Mary Balogh

#43. Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.

Mary Balogh

#44. Besides, how could one apologize for kissing a woman twice? Once might be explained away as an impulsive accident. Twice suggested definite intent or a serious lack of control. His

Mary Balogh

#45. I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.

Mary Balogh

#46. I will love you all my life and even beyond that," he said. "You will always be my only love.

Mary Balogh

#47. 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

#48. Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.

Mary Balogh

#49. People do understand the language of the heart, you know, even if the head does not always comprehend it.

Mary Balogh

#50. It's this idea that success changes you as a person ... I've never seen my career that way.

Mary Balogh

#51. Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?

Mary Balogh

#52. Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises," he said. "Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise on it and let it go too lightly.

Mary Balogh

#53. Living in a house with a large library," she said, "is a little like living in heaven

Mary Balogh

#54. Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being.
No one was shallow. Not really.

Mary Balogh

#55. Everyone had run to do her bidding. Soon only the three men
the three useless ones
had been left in the sitting room to fight terror and nausea and fits of the vapors.
The door opened. Three pale, terrified faces turned toward it.
-the three manly men waiting during a childbirth

Mary Balogh

#56. You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.

Mary Balogh

#57. Unfortunately, Sir Gerald, people rarely get what they deserve in this life. Perhaps that is why we have had to invent a heaven. - Miss Blythe, A Precious Jewel

Mary Balogh

#58. My woman. She had a momentary image of a caveman, hanging on to his woman by the hair with one hand while in the other he wielded a club to beat back caveman number two. Perhaps she would sketch it one day.

Mary Balogh

#59. (Edward describing Angeline's bonnet)
"Then it is overbright and those colors should never been seen togther upon the same person, not to mention the same garment ." he said. "And it actually suits you perfectly. It suits your character.

Mary Balogh

#60. If we were to see the grandeur of our real selves, I suspect we would also see the necessity of living up to who we really are. And most of us are too lazy for that. Or else we are having too good a time enjoying our less than perfect lives to be bothered. (Claudia Martin)

Mary Balogh

#61. The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

Mary Balogh

#62. It was beginning to feel like an almost familiar place to be. But perhaps hitting this new low had something to be said for it, she thought now, this morning, after she had awoken and realized in some surprise that she had slept for several hours. At least now there was no further down to go. And

Mary Balogh

#63. But life and pain go hand and hand. On e cannot live fully unless one faces pain at least occasionally.

Mary Balogh

#64. It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.

Mary Balogh

#65. Negativity could be frighteningly contagious.

Mary Balogh

#66. But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix of body, mind, and spirit.

Mary Balogh

#67. Ah, my love. Once dreams were shattered, there could be no assurance that they could ever be pieced together and dreamed again.

Mary Balogh

#68. His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea.

Mary Balogh

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

Mary Balogh

#70. If there were no illusions, there would bo no disillusionment. But then one would have no fond memories either, with which fortify oneself against the pain of the reality.

Mary Balogh

#71. Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?

Mary Balogh

#72. Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path?

Mary Balogh

#73. The wind was cold and cut into her even though it was at her back, but she loved the wild sound and the salt smell of it and the deepened sense of solitude it brought.

Mary Balogh

#74. But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.

Mary Balogh

#75. Everyone should know what it is like to be called by name. By the name of the unique person one is at
heart.

Mary Balogh

#76. Perhaps we should do the learning - and learn not to communicate, or to do it in a different way. Now there is a thought. Perhaps we could learn your peace if we could share your silence.

Mary Balogh

#77. 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

#78. Sometimes," he said, "it is necessary to go back before we can move forward.

Mary Balogh

#79. 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

#80. Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.

Mary Balogh

#81. Openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.

Mary Balogh

#82. Ah, those eyes," he said. "They can speak volumes, but sometimes even I cannot translate the language. And we never did invent enough signs for deeper thoughts and feelings.

Mary Balogh

#83. And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.

Mary Balogh

#84. Why say something," he asked her, "if your words mean nothing?

Mary Balogh

#85. I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.

Mary Balogh

#86. 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?

Mary Balogh

#87. You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet.

Mary Balogh

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

Mary Balogh

#89. I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

Mary Balogh

#90. When I was nineteen," she said, "I was in love with being in love, I think. And I was given no chance to discover how deep - or not deep - that love would have gone.

Mary Balogh

#91. And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

Mary Balogh

#92. But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.

Mary Balogh

#93. My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

Mary Balogh

#94. with a cluster of other servants.

Mary Balogh

#95. 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

#96. And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ... alive.

Mary Balogh

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

Mary Balogh

#98. Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity.

Mary Balogh

#99. Home had always been a place to dream of.

Mary Balogh

#100. Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.

Mary Balogh