Mary Balogh quote: "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?"

But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a...
MARY BALOGH

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever...
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 tha...
MARY BALOGH

I do what I love and what I always dreamed of doing for a living. I write love stories, and I have a...
MARY BALOGH

Had he healed one wound only to open another?
MARY BALOGH

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one o...
MARY BALOGH

I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and fli...
MARY BALOGH

I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made...
MARY BALOGH

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
MARY BALOGH

Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely lay...
MARY BALOGH

Families are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each o...
MARY BALOGH

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of dar...
MARY BALOGH

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the r...
MARY BALOGH

And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and n...
MARY BALOGH

Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turne...
MARY BALOGH

This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought t...
MARY BALOGH

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did ...
MARY BALOGH

It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing
MARY BALOGH

His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the af...
MARY BALOGH

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

Why is it," she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running fr...
MARY BALOGH

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring...
MARY BALOGH

Sometimes now was enough.
Sometimes it was everything.
MARY BALOGH

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
MARY BALOGH

You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a tota...
MARY BALOGH

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

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
L...
MARY BALOGH

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a ...
MARY BALOGH

And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, dam...
MARY BALOGH

Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.'
'There you are wro...
MARY BALOGH

Why do I want to run from happiness?
MARY BALOGH

Was there to be some healing after all?
Was healing possible when grave damage had been done? MARY BALOGH

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
MARY BALOGH

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one fee...
MARY BALOGH

Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of ...
MARY BALOGH

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The p...
MARY BALOGH

Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not,...
MARY BALOGH

After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in...
MARY BALOGH

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

And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The ...
MARY BALOGH

Tonight he would do anything in the world for her.
Tomorrow he would begin to set her free.
MARY BALOGH

He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives...
MARY BALOGH

Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been with...
MARY BALOGH

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them ha...
MARY BALOGH

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of othe...
MARY BALOGH

But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you ar...
MARY BALOGH

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as wel...
MARY BALOGH

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One ...
MARY BALOGH

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a wor...
MARY BALOGH

He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else ...
MARY BALOGH

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
MARY BALOGH

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
MARY BALOGH

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.
MARY BALOGH

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of...
MARY BALOGH

My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot kn...
MARY BALOGH

Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing a...
MARY BALOGH

We used to feel like the cat playing with the mouse. Now we feel more like the mouse, trying to be f...
ARISTOTLE BALOGH

It keeps me up at night with all that's going on these days. The online world is turning into such a...
ARISTOTLE BALOGH

There are like a million cell phones with Internet access today. Just wait until 100 million have In...
ARISTOTLE BALOGH

We've always said that you can't win the league in the first round of the season but you can lose it...
JOE BALOGH

This investigation just kept mushrooming. We didn't think we had anywhere near all the credit card n...
DENNIS BALOGH

Businesses should get away from doing business over the phone.
DENNIS BALOGH

Any time nonviolent offenders are sentenced to this kind of time, we feel we've done our job.
DENNIS BALOGH

This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.
JOE BALOGH

That's been a key for us. We've been able to play 10 kids.
JOE BALOGH

We kind of let them hang around and get some confidence, but down the stretch I think we made some g...
JOE BALOGH

We really want to be strong starters. The first three minutes of the game and the first three minute...
JOE BALOGH

You have to give Crestline a lot of credit there. We wanted to come out and extend the floor a littl...
JOE BALOGH

We weren't really trying to get the ball inside, either. But in the second half we made a conscious ...
JOE BALOGH

Andrew has played so well over the last two weeks.
JOE BALOGH

It was important for us to get that early lead then maintain it throughout the game.
JOE BALOGH

This was a crucial win for us. We were able to get out to a fast start.
JOE BALOGH

Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN

If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN

It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL

I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR

Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL

There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO

When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY

Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn&#...
MARY BERRY

I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB

In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH

The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH

Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY

One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA

I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY

When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA

If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY

I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY

Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL

Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS

When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.&#...
MARY MATALIN

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN

We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN

If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN

Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN

The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN

These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN

The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH

People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was....
MARY KARR

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER

My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre...
MARY WESLEY

The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t...
MARY BARRA

World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!
MARY KATE

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY

A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...
MARY ASTOR

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
MARY ASTOR

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
MARY ASTOR

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at ...
MARY CATHERWOOD

It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE

to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER

The Uses Of Sorrow

(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)

Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER

Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER

Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER

Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL

Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f...
MARY PICKFORD

I have never been contained except I made the prison
MARY EVANS

The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
MARY LITTLE

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me...
MARY WEBB

It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

No pressure, no diamonds.
MARY CASE

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
MARY BYRANT

It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar...
MARY HENLE

A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal...
MARY PICKFORD

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l...
MARY DALY

Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
MARY DALY

The divine egoism hat is genius.
MARY WEBB

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