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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2216b06 | It's a dangerous feeling getting noticed, being wanted. Getting seen deep and proper, it's shit hot but terrible too. It's like being took over. And your whole skin hurts like you suddenly grew two sizes in a minute. | indiscretion shyness | Tim Winton | |
| 125f6e9 | a freeze response (dissociation, collapse, numbing, paralysis, deadness) during the incident that threatened your life or limb. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand that this is really survival response... | ptsd trauma traumatic-experiences violence | Babette Rothschild | |
| d1917d6 | Ben walked into the house and up the stairs with his two canes, but he propelled himself about much of the time after that in a wheeled chair, having decided that it was not an admission of defeat but rather a moving forward into a new, differently active phase of his life. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 837bc58 | He was insulting her sex but complimenting her personally. Was she supposed to simper with gratitude? | Mary Balogh | ||
| 9c28727 | She looked at him, her eyes brimming with laughter again. Joel sat gazing at her, wondering how much attention she was drawing from the other occupants of the room. But, however much it was, she seemed unaware of it. He gazed back at her, more than a bit shaken, for she looked like a different woman when she laughed. She looked young and vivid and ... What was the word his mind was searching for? Gorgeous? She was hardly that. . That was it.. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 4e2a11c | There is no kindness in money. | Mary Balogh | ||
| f246706 | Well,' Frederick had said, 'I will see what can be arranged, Archie. But I will not have the girl frightened or compromised.' 'You sound like a grandfather who has raised fifteen daughters and is now starting on his granddaughters, Freddie,' Lord Archibald had said. 'It is most disconcerting. | dialogue humor mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter | Mary Balogh | |
| 923291b | I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette. | dialogue fashion humor mary-balogh regency regency-romance romance witty-banter | Mary Balogh | |
| 89ad66e | This is your home,' he said. 'You are mistress of Finchley Park, Vanessa. You may do whatever you wish.' Her smile broadened. 'Within reason,' he added hastily. | historical-romance regency-romance | Mary Balogh | |
| 3fb635a | openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 839025a | The future would take care of itself. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 16dba34 | It is part of you, and you are a man worth knowing | Mary Balogh | ||
| f68dcc1 | I would be more inclined to tell my children the opposite," she said. "Stop being 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 | ||
| 5b37649 | In her twenties she developed a deep affection for romance, especially enjoying the works of Nora Roberts, Mary Balogh and, most recently, Rose Gordon, Courtney Milan, Lauren Royal, Danelle Harmon, and Diane Farr. You can thank those authors for leading a sci-fi tomboy into writing historical romances set in the Regency period. | Sue London | ||
| d6bba7b | I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby." "But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping." | Mary Balogh | ||
| d33b206 | Why is it we are not constantly awed by the size and majesty of the universe?" "Habit," he said. "We are accustomed to it. I suppose if we had been blind from birth--in both eyes--and could suddenly see, we would be so overwhelmed by a night like this that we would either gaze upward at it until dawn or else cling to the earth, afraid that we were about to fall off. Or perhaps we would simply assume that we were at the center of it all and .. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 7eafd0f | Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere--somewhere--there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it." She" | Mary Balogh | ||
| 7bcebf1 | La felicidad es siempre algo pasajero, fugaz. Nunca es un estado permanente para nadie aun que muchos perseveramos en creer la tonta idea de que si ocurriera esto o aquello seriamos felices el resto de nuestra vida. Tengo momentos de felicidad como la mayoria. Tal vez he aprendido a encontrarla de maneras que pasarian inadvertidas a algunas personas. Siento el calor del verano aqui en este momento, veo los arboles y el agua y oigo a esa gav.. | verano vida | Mary Balogh | |
| 6185447 | But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling. | Mary Balogh | ||
| a028eef | I would not wish to deny you your dreams. But have a care. They can be dashed in one impulsive moment. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 8a41f0e | You just have not...oh, learned who yo are yet. | Mary Balogh | ||
| a209e5f | instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn - that life was really not going to be easy after one was free of the schoolroom? | Mary Balogh | ||
| f008991 | Besides, how could one apologize for kissing a woman twice? Once might be explained away as an impulsive accident. Twice suggested definite intent or a serious lack of control. His | Mary Balogh | ||
| 32ec81d | It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is," she said. "Illusion?" He frowned. "Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism?" "I am not cynical," she said. "But no, I could not go back." | Mary Balogh | ||
| db8aea7 | It is just a pity," he added, "that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson." | Mary Balogh | ||
| 0aeffca | 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 | Mary Balogh | ||
| 1f64d7b | 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. | life-and-living positive-outlook positive-thinking | Mary Balogh | |
| dbac0b3 | There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...] | Mary Balogh | ||
| 668b948 | 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 | Mary Balogh | ||
| a034781 | 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. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 0b343e7 | 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. | anxiousness imaginative thoughtful | Mary Balogh | |
| 634a6f2 | Some things," she said, "are best not known for sure, Lord Trentham." | Mary Balogh | ||
| 15fb973 | 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 | Mary Balogh | ||
| f5b4f63 | For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world, | Mary Balogh | ||
| 73066f1 | 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." | Mary Balogh | ||
| 2bbfe40 | 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.. | Mary Balogh | ||
| f37b22d | Constance had joined him at the breakfast | Mary Balogh | ||
| 32e9d4d | Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos... | Mary Balogh | ||
| 09cfff7 | It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories. | smells | Mary Balogh | |
| 60be3b4 | Pero el pasado no se puede cambiar. Solo podemos controlar un poco el futuro. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 42c7b24 | 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. | Mary Balogh | ||
| f5475c6 | Home had always been a place to dream of. | Mary Balogh | ||
| 3e8eee4 | Ah, but we are women as well as teachers... We have needs that nature has given us fr the very preservation of our species | Mary Balogh | ||
| d50d4b8 | He pulled loose the ribbons of her bonnet and tossed the garment onto the opposite seat. He held her head against his shoulder and rested his cheek on top of it. He had no idea if she needed to be gathered in or not. But he needed to gather. "Idiot," he said. "You precious idiot, Elizabeth." -- | regency-romance romance | Mary Balogh |