“Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamers who never really lived life at all.” PeopleFeelsFirstsPersonsMadeTwoDreamKnowingSuccessfulMovedLifetimeDisappointmentNostalgiaAbandonDreamerSuccessful PeoplePersistDistinguishedSuccessionMoved OnAiryGirlhood Book:Simply Perfect Source: Simply Perfect
“It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.” PeoplePlayAbleHeroComfortableDividesVillainHeroes And Villains Author:Mary Balogh
“But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.” PeopleIfsNeedsPersonsTwoMatterWholeFeelingsHappensWould BeHalfDiedPrivacyDesirableWhole Person Author:Mary Balogh
“Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.” PeopleSometimesPainPastMovingDeterminedDestroyedTouchedRelentlessAvoidance Book:Simply Love Source: Simply Love
“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?” PeopleBeautifulBehindsNeededEmptyAssumingShellsInsensitiveEmpty Shell Author:Mary Balogh
“The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?” PeopleWantGivingHas BeensSometimesPainSufferingStrangeEmptyStrongerCreditShouldersEmptinessParadoxLoved Ones Book:A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series Source: A Summer To Remember: Number 2 in series
“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.” PeopleNumbersOne ThingRegretConcernHatredOppositesAnd LoveFilledGuiltInnocenceGenerousCheerfulConfusingContradictoryIntervalsEver AfterBlundersGhastlyPolar OppositesHatred And Love Author:Mary Balogh
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsSecretLove YouGuiltBurdenAllowingOutletsUnbearable Author:Mary Balogh
