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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.
Mary Balogh
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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
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I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
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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.
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Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
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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.
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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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Have you noticed, she asked him, how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
Mary Balogh
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
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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.
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Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
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Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
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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.
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One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
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Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
Mary Balogh
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?
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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.
Mary Balogh
Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
Mary Balogh
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
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
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
Mary Balogh
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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