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If there was magic alive in this world, Julian thought after the first couple of minutes, it was surely present in the waltz danced with someone one loved more than life itself.
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Mary Balogh |
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By the time she had finished, her hand was in Elizabeth's firm clasp again. Her touch was strangely comforting--a woman's touch signifying a woman's sympathy. Elizabeth would understand what it would be like to be a captive, to have one's freedom taken away, and then, as a final indignity, to have one's very body invaded and used for the pleasure of one's captor. Another woman would understand the monumental inner battle that had had to be ..
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Mary Balogh |
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You will find that wanting, even loving, is not enough.
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Mary Balogh |
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It was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.
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Mary Balogh |
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You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you.
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funny
mary-balogh
mr-mason
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Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo unico que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.
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Mary Balogh |
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You still do not quite understand, do you?" she said softly. "I do not want you to change. I fell head over ears in love with you the first time I saw you just because you are who you are."
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Mary Balogh |
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Ah, this feels just like the old times... I still miss you and the others, you know, and life at school and those times when two or more of us would sit up talking far too late into the night. Which is not to say I would give up my present life to return there, but... Well, even happy choices involve some sacrifice. And most of us, I suppose, would like to both have our cake and eat it if only it were possible
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Mary Balogh |
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They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.
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Mary Balogh |
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After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.
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Mary Balogh |
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Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path?
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Mary Balogh |
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We sighted people are often neglectful of the power of sound.
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Mary Balogh |
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What happened was pain and pleasure and shock and satisfaction all rolled into one. Pain as he withdrew and thrust over and over again past the soreness of her newly opened womanhood. Pleasure because it was more wonderful, more exhilirating, than any other sensation she had ever experienced. Shock because she had not expected such a deep and vigorous and prolonged invasion of her body. Satisfaction because now, before it was too late, he w..
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Mary Balogh |
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Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.
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Mary Balogh |
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We often do not say what is in our hearts," he said, "to those who are closest and most dear to us."
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Mary Balogh |
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You are not by any manner of means the sort of woman I am in search of as a wife, and I am in a totally different universe from the husband you hope to find. But I feel a powerful urge to kiss you, for all that.
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love
marriage
passion
regency-romance
romance
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She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.
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love
romantic
sentimental
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Mary Balogh |
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Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.
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Mary Balogh |
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If only the devil were feminine - perhaps he (she) was; no one had ever seemed to think of that - he would readily believe that her pseudonym was Daisy Morrison.
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humor
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Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity.
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Mary Balogh |
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If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.
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Mary Balogh |
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It is hard, is it not," he said, "to have one's life develop quite differently from what one expected and to feel not fully in command of it?"
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Mary Balogh |
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You have become as necessary to me as the air I breathe," he said. "Your beauty and your smiles wrap themselves about me and warm me to the heart--to the very soul. You have taught me to trust and to love again, and I trust and love you. I love you more than I have ever loved anyone. More than I knew it was possible to love. And if you think I am making an ass of myself with such romantic hyperbole just because I want to make you feel bette..
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Mary Balogh |
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Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[...]
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Mary Balogh |
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a pearl probably does not look so very remarkable either while it is still hidden inside its shell.
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Mary Balogh |
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Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments.
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Mary Balogh |
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She wanted so badly to believe him. She sat on the edge of her bed and closed her eyes. And she realized what had been happening to her over the past weeks. He had been turning--so gradually that she had scarcely noticed the transition--from her nightmare into her dream. Because
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But why always think the worst of people? What would she be doing to herself if she adopted that attitude to life? It was better to think the best and be wrong than to think the worst and be wrong.
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life-and-living
positive-outlook
positive-thinking
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Mary Balogh |
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There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]
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Mary Balogh |
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And then something blossomed deep within and opened almost like the multitude petals of a rose, pushing back the tension in rippling waves as they bloomed until she surrendered to relaxation with a soft exclamation of surprise
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Mary Balogh |
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We women are impractical because we have hearts. Not that men do not, but they feel things differently. They do not feel the suffering around them, or, if they do, they know how to harden their hearts when it has nothing to do with them.
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He thought the library door would never open again, but that he would be left to live out the rest of his life rooted to the spot on the library carpet, afraid to move a muscle lest the house fall upon his shoulders. He deliberately shrugged them and shuffled his feel just to prove to himself that it could be done.
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anxiousness
imaginative
thoughtful
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Mary Balogh |
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Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham."
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Mary Balogh |
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Everyone had run to do her bidding. Soon only the three men--the three useless ones--had been left in the sitting room to fight terror and nausea and fits of the vapors. The door opened. Three pale, terrified faces turned toward it. -the three manly men waiting during a childbirth
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Mary Balogh |
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For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world,
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Mary Balogh |
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you are usually in a different universe," she said, "one that revolves about you. The Peninsula was full of rude, blustering officers who believed other people had been created to pay them homage. I always thought they were merely silly and best ignored."
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But really there was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by humankind. Time was infinite. And it was time to love... ...Even infinity had an end. They had loved. And somehow having loved was quite as beautiful as loving. For of course there was no real end to it. Infinity might have an end, but love did not..
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Mary Balogh |
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Constance had joined him at the breakfast
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Mary Balogh |
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Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos...
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Mary Balogh |
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It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.
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Mary Balogh |
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Pero el pasado no se puede cambiar. Solo podemos controlar un poco el futuro.
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Mary Balogh |
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I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.
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Mary Balogh |
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Home had always been a place to dream of.
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Mary Balogh |
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Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species
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Mary Balogh |