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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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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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Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
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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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I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
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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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The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
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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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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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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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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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Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
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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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