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Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
Mary Balogh
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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
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He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.
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One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
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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?
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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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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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I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.
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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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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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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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Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
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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 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? - Aidan Bedwyn
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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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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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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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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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