Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
Mary BaloghOne longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?," she said, "I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up.
Mary BaloghTags: growing-up eighteen
Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.
Mary BaloghThe real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
Mary BaloghI 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 no such fear. I like being alone."
"What do you fear then?" he asked her.
She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words.
"Never finding myself again....
Tags: loniless
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
Mary BaloghFamilies are wonderful institution," he said. "I value mine more than I can possibly say. But each of us has an individual life to live, our own path to tread, our own destiny to forge. You can imagine, if you will, how my family wished to shelter and protect me and do my living for me so that I would never again know fear or pain or abandonment. Eventually I had to step clear of them-or I might have fallen into the temptation of allowing them to do just that.
Mary BaloghTags: life family destiny shelter protect
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
Mary BaloghMy mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?
Mary BaloghTags: forever
Was there to be some healing after all?
Was healing possible when grave damage had been done?
Was wholeness possible when one had been horribly maimed.
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