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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.

Mary Balogh

Dream, Disappointment, Successful

Mary Balogh (2008). “Simply Perfect”, p.42, Delacorte Press

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Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.

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Journey, Next Week, Choices

Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.131, Delacorte Press

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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

Real, Heart, World

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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

Past, Motive, Prove

Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.153, Dell

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Why do I want to run from happiness?

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Running, Want

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

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Judging, Doe

Mary Balogh (2007). “Simply Magic”, p.314, Delacorte Press

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Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

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Memories, Blessing, Sometimes

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I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

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Greatness, Substance, Admire

Mary Balogh (2004). “Slightly Dangerous”, p.29, Delacorte Press

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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

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Dream, Needs, Want

Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.151, Dell

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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

Heart, Strange, Found

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Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.

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Life, Real, Self

Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.152, Delacorte Press

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She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

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Sorry, Wine, Tomorrow

Mary Balogh (2003). “Slightly Wicked”, p.41, Dell

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I do beg you to have some regard for my pride. A million years? I assure you I would stop asking after the first thousand.

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Pride, Years, Firsts

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It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

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Hero, Play, People

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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.

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Use, Benefits, Too Much

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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.

Mary Balogh

Two, People, Feelings

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The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

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Feelings, Suffering, Way

Mary Balogh (2009). “First Comes Marriage”, p.234, Dell

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Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?

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Philosophical, Happy Life, Thinking

Mary Balogh (2009). “Then Comes Seduction”, p.230, Dell

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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.

Mary Balogh

Love You, Heart, Years

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The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

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Lonely, Loneliness, Faces

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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.

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Mind, Able, Impossible

Mary Balogh (2007). “The Devil's Web”, p.133, Dell

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

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Space, Soul, Depth

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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?

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Beautiful, People, Shells

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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

Mother, Lonely, Son

Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.59, Delacorte Press

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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

Flower, Heart, Rose

Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.142, Delacorte Press

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Born: March 24, 1944
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