Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Mary Balogh
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mary Balogh
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
Novelist
Writer
Abertawe
Choices
Wrong
Pinnacle
Often
Expected
Thought
Supposed
Best
Perfection
Humans
Usually
Children
Parents
Made
Parent
More quotes by Mary Balogh
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
Mary Balogh
But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?
Mary Balogh
I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.
Mary Balogh
Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
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?
Mary Balogh
There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.
Mary Balogh
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
Mary Balogh
It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
Mary Balogh
Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
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?
Mary Balogh
One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
Mary Balogh
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.
Mary Balogh
