The Arrangement Quotes

“Living in a house with a large library,” she said, “is a little like living in heaven”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“My woman. She had a momentary image of a caveman, hanging on to his woman by the hair with one hand while in the other he wielded a club to beat back caveman number two. Perhaps she would sketch it one day.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“But I am glad you are not some sort of superhuman pillar of strength. I would not be able to prevail against it. I am too weak, too fragile. In each other’s weaknesses, perhaps we can both find strength.”
― Mary balogh, The Arrangement

“We often do not say what is in our hearts,” he said, “to those who are closest and most dear to us.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“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?”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“We sighted people are often neglectful of the power of sound.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“I prefer to think of marriage as an equality of give and take.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“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.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“I like your voice. That sounds ridiculously lame, I know. But when you cannot see, Miss Fry, sound and the other senses become far more acute. Normally one likes the look of someone to whom one feels attracted. I like the sound of your voice.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“[...] a pearl probably does not look so very remarkable either while it is still hidden inside its shell.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[...]”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“Home had always been a place to dream of.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“I am in awe,” he said. “Where do all these ideas come from?” “I think from a lifetime of only being able to observe and never being able to do,” she said. “I have twenty years of inaction to make up for.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“She was Sophia Fry, though her name was rarely used. She was known by her relatives, when she was known as anything at all, and perhaps by their servants too, as the mouse.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy. But he had long ago realized that he must treat his blindness as a challenge rather than as a handicap if he wished to enjoy anything like a happy, fulfilled life.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“Miss Fry had been borne off, as planned, Hugo reported, to be outfitted from head to toe for her wedding and her new life. His wife had gone with her, and so had the Countess of Kilbourne, her sister-in-law. Vincent hoped Sophia would not feel overwhelmed. “They will look after her, lad,” Hugo assured him as though he had read Vincent’s thoughts. “Woman power or something hideous like that. It is better to stay far away from it and let them do what they must do.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“The future would take care of itself.”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“There are voices that are lovely for various reasons or annoying for other reasons [...]”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement

“But if we all avoided doing anything for which we are not exceptionally gifted, we would do almost nothing at all and would never discover what we can become. Instead we would waste much of the span of life allotted us in keeping safe, confining activities.”
― Mary Balogh , The Arrangement

“Dreams are wishes that will in all probability never come true. (Sophie)”
― Mary Balogh, The Arrangement