“After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.” IfsYearsHeartPersonsSaidDifferentWould BeWishForeverFivePiecesHeardLove YouBrokenMy HeartMarriedDenyFive YearsGrayMeaninglessSlipsExpectingLike HerSuspendedCome Back To Me Author:Mary Balogh
“I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.” IfsFeelsSaidFoundExpressionSolitudeFindingsOneselfNot SureSpokesFragileSolitaryLonlinessFinding MyselfLike Being Alone Book:Simply Love Source: Simply Love
“There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.” SaidFactsPastProveForgottenOneselfConvince Author:Mary Balogh
“I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.” KnowsDoeSaidWishKnownCompromiseEighteen Author:Mary Balogh
“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 never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.” DoeHas BeensSaidLastsDiesRealizingMorningForeverBetrayedMirages Book:Simply Perfect Source: Simply Perfect
“And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.” SaidSoulSometimesMomentsEyeMovingNightPassionVoiceHoursFourTwentiesDawnHis EyesSunsetQuartersYearningInchesTwilightSunriseBrillianceDay And NightEnchantedBeholderMerging Author:Mary Balogh
“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.” GivingSaidWould BeEyeJoyEnergyFeltChanceFireFansTearsGive MeFlamesHer EyesNurtureVitalityConsumedSapGive Me A Chance Book:Slightly Dangerous Source: Slightly Dangerous
“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.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsBelieveSaidMightLove YouBlessingProtectionGoing AwayDependenceFinding HappinessMy BlessingWay I Love YouWhy I Love You Book:A Summer to Remember Source: A Summer to Remember
“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?” WorldHeartSaidFactsHappensMy OwnTeachTaughtMy HeartAssumingGuardianFind MeArtificeFortressesDuchessConstantine Author:Mary Balogh
