He wished he understood women better. It was a well-known fact that they did not mean half of what they said.
But which half did they mean?
One cannot try marriage. Once one is in, there is no way out.
Mary BaloghStanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific people who are left stranded in the land of the living, unable for all eternity to answer the plea
Mary BaloghI do not believe there is right or wrong," he said. "there is only doing what one must do under given circumstances and living with the consequences and weaving every experiences, good and bad, into the fabric of one's life so that ultimately one can see the pattern of it all and accept the lessons life has taught.
Mary BaloghIt was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.
Mary BaloghYour sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.
Mary BaloghIf I had smiled and fawned over you at Lady Mannering’s ball,” she said, “and if I had simpered and giggled during the drive in Hyde Park, you would have lost interest in me in a moment, Lord Ravensberg.”
“Good Lord, yes,” he agreed. Perceptive of her.
“I would thank you not to take the Lord’s name in vain,” she said so primly that he was momentarily enchanted. “I see that I have behaved in quite the wrong manner with you. I should have encouraged you.”
“There is always time,” he suggested, moving his chair half an inch closer to hers, “to mend your ways, Miss Edgeworth.
If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.
Mary BaloghMots clés historical-romance regency
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I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
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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.
Mary BaloghMots clés hope winter spring person
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