Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

- Mary Balogh

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 give…

- Mary Balogh

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

- 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

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 o…

- 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 n…

- Mary Balogh

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

- Mary Balogh

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

- 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 th…

- Mary Balogh