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There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
Mary Balogh
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Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
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Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
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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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Why do I want to run from happiness?
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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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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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Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
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The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
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