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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
Novelist
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The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.
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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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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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Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
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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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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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Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
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Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
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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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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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Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
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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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