First Comes Marriage Quotes

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage

“My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage

“But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be desirable even if it were possible. What would happen when one of them died? It would leave the other as a half a person, and that would be a dreadful thing. We must each be a whole person and therefore we each need some privacy to be alone with ourselves and our own feelings.”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage

“It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage

“Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage

“You have become as necessary to me as the air I breathe,” he said. “Your beauty and your smiles wrap themselves about me and warm me to the heart—to the very soul. You have taught me to trust and to love again, and I trust and love you. I love you more than I have ever loved anyone. More than I knew it was possible to love. And if you think I am making an ass of myself with such romantic hyperbole just because I want to make you feel better about admitting that you are happy, then I am going to have to take drastic measures.”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage

“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.”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage

“Love remained to him both as something other people gave him and, more important, as something he was capable of giving. He was going to love his own children with a steadiness upon which they could rely for as long as he lived. And their mother would teach them, by example if not in words—though there doubtless would be words in plenty—that love was something that lived deep inside everyone, a bottomless well, something that could give a happy bent to their lives even during dark and difficult days.”
― Mary Balogh, First Comes Marriage