Always Remember Quotes

“How important stories were. They linked families and generations and communities and shared values and civilization itself. They created history and identity. At their best they perpetuated love.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember

“I cannot see that suppressing certain realities from our lives, or having them suppressed by others, is anything but harmful,” Lady Jennifer said. “Even if those realities are painful or sordid. And even if those who hide them from us are well meaning. Our lives are surely intended to be a full expression of who we are and where we have come from and what we have experienced in our lifetimes. How can we express the fullness of our being if we do not know or cannot face all the facts? If we do not know who we are to the depths of our being?”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember

“We all have things missing from our lives, things that could drag us down into deep depression if we allowed them to. It is the nature of living. There is no such thing as the perfect life or happily ever after.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember

“She hoped she had not dismissed him as a person of no account because he was by far her social inferior. But she could not be sure. So many of the judgments one made about other people were unconscious.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember

“He always felt self-conscious whenever he was in her presence, wondering what he would say to her if he had to say anything at all, and how he would behave. He was afraid he might be overhearty. Or oversolicitous. No one else treated her any differently than they would if she were perfectly able-bodied. He had kept his distance from her in the past couple of days without fully realizing he was doing it.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember

“Smile and the world will smile back, her father had told her once when she was still a very young child and making a slow recovery from her mysterious and painful—and frightening—illness. It had become something of a mantra with her. At the very least, if one smiled the world would not be dragged down into one’s own darkness.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember

“Love is not a single thread in life. It is a vast web, all of it necessary to lasting contentment.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember

“She closed her eyes. She had been kissed. And she wondered if a kiss was always like that. Not just the physical sensation of lips meeting, of warm breath against the cheek, of a face so near that one was obliged to close one’s eyes. Not just a quickening of the breath and a glow of warm affection. But all-encompassing. Humming and singing through the blood and everything that was the self—body, mind, heart, and spirit.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember: Ben's Story

“How important stories were. They linked families and generations and communities and shared values and civilization itself. They created history and identity. At their best they perpetuated love. Love.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember: Ben's Story

“We can become obsessed with a part of ourselves we consider imperfect,” Jennifer said. “In our minds it becomes the whole of ourselves, and we believe that it is the only thing people see when they look at us.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember: Ben's Story

“Just occasionally families could be one’s worst enemy. Especially loving families.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember: Ben's Story

“Sometimes one meets someone and senses immediately that that person will be a close friend, almost as though one had known her before though clearly it is impossible. In a previous lifetime, perhaps. It would be very convenient, would it not, to have the sort of religion that believed in such a thing?”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember: Ben's Story

“Yes, it has occurred to me that we are mad. But only because the world is. Because the world rates societal order above love. Love so nearly resembles chaos. But perhaps only love really matters? I mean real, deep-down, rock-solid, unshakable love. Why are there no words for the big realities?”

“Because words confine them,” he said. “The big realities know no bounds. They simply are.”
― Mary Balogh, Always Remember: Ben's Story