Mary Balogh Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, damn it all. He disliked her, he resented her, he disapproved of almost everything about her, yet he was head over ears in love with her, like a foolish schoolboy.He wondered grimly what he was going to do about it.He was not amused.Or in any way pleased. Slightly Dangerous

2. 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. Then Comes Seduction

3. 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. Slightly Dangerous

4. It was now twenty minutes past four in the morning, allowing for the fact that the clock in the library of his town house was four minutes slow, as it had been for as far back as he could remember.He eyed it with a frown of concentration. Now that he came to think about it, he must have it set right one of these days.Why should a clock be forced to go throught its entire existence four minutes behind the rest of the world? It was not logical.The trouble was though, that if the clock were suddenly right, he would be forever confused and arriving four minutes early -- or did he mena late? -- for meals and various other appointments. That would agitate his servants and cause consternation in the kitchen.It was probably better to leave the clock as it was. Then Comes Seduction

5. 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. First Comes Marriage

6. 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. Slightly Wicked

7. There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness. Simply Magic

8. Why do I want to run from happiness? More Than a Mistress

9. 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. A Matter of Class

10. Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan The Temporary Wife

11. 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? The Devil's Web