67+ Mary Balogh Quotes On Friendship, Marriage And Romantic

Mary Balogh is a British-Canadian novelist of historical and contemporary romance novels. She is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, and has won numerous awards for her work, including a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. She is best known for her Regency and Georgian historical romance novels, which often feature the redemption of a rakish hero. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mary Balogh on love, friendship, life.

Top 10 Mary Balogh Quotes

1. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
2. Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
3. Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?
4. I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
5. The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.
6. Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
7. 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?
8. 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.
9. It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
10. This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

Mary Balogh Short Quotes

• I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
• Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
• I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
• Why do I want to run from happiness?
• Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
• Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
• There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
• Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
• And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
• Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

Mary Balogh Quotes About Love

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

Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden. — Mary Balogh

Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is. — Mary Balogh

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love. — Mary Balogh

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it? — Mary Balogh

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language — Mary Balogh

I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win. — Mary Balogh

Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it. — Mary Balogh

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. — Mary Balogh

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you. — Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh Quotes About Life

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope. — 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

It was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on. — 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

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away. — Mary Balogh

Mary Balogh Famous Quotes And Sayings

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy. — Mary Balogh

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken. — Mary Balogh

He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened. — 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

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. — Mary Balogh

The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness? — Mary Balogh

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

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears. — 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

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry. — Mary Balogh

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. — Mary Balogh

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect. — 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

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

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway? — Mary Balogh

And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder. — 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

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless. — Mary Balogh

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was. — Mary Balogh

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise. — 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

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of? — Mary Balogh

Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on. — 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

I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again. — 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

But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings. — Mary Balogh

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. — Mary Balogh

All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking? — Mary Balogh

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again. — 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

Life Lessons by Mary Balogh

1. Mary Balogh emphasizes the importance of communication and understanding in relationships, showing that even the most seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome with patience, understanding, and love.
2. Her novels often feature characters who have experienced trauma, and through their stories she conveys the power of resilience and the strength of the human spirit.
3. She also explores the power of forgiveness and the importance of learning from past mistakes in order to move forward and create a better future.