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I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
Mary Balogh
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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
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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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If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
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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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Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
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Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
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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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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.
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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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The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
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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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There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
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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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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.
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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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Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
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Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.
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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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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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One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
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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.
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