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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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The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?Mary Balogh
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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?Mary Balogh
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Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.Mary Balogh
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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.Mary Balogh
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Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.Mary Balogh
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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
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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.Mary Balogh
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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.Mary Balogh
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Why is it, " she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?Mary Balogh
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Did people.. really kiss like that? She had had NO idea. She had imagined being kissed, and in her imagination she had been swept away by the sheer romance of the meeting of lips. In her naivete she had not considered the possibility that a kiss, as a prelude to sexual activity, might have powerful effects on parts of her body, in fact, even parts she had been only half aware of possessing. She ached and throbbed in all sorts of unfamiliar places .Mary Balogh
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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