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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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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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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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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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Love does not last forever, then? He asked me the same thing this morning, she said. No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.
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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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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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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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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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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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One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
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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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But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
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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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Why do I want to run from happiness?
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Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
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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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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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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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