Then Comes Seduction Quotes

“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo.
It just simply was.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“Love is a connection with another person, either through birth or through something else that I cannot even explain. It is often just an attraction at first. But it goes far deeper than that. It is a determination to care for the other person no matter what and to allow oneself to be cared for in return. It is a commitment to make the other happy and to be happy oneself. It is not possessive, but neither is it a victim. And it does not always bring happiness. Often it brings a great deal of pain, especially when the beloved is suffering and one feels impotent to comfort. It is what life is all about. It is openness and trust and vulnerability.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“It was now twenty minutes past four in the morning, allowing for the fact that the clock in the library of his town house was four minutes slow, as it had been for as far back as he could remember.
He eyed it with a frown of concentration. Now that he came to think about it, he must have it set right one of these days.Why should a clock be forced to go throught its entire existence four minutes behind the rest of the world? It was not logical.The trouble was though, that if the clock were suddenly right, he would be forever confused and arriving four minutes early -- or did he mena late? -- for meals and various other appointments. That would agitate his servants and cause consternation in the kitchen.
It was probably better to leave the clock as it was.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without...integrity?
How could she have felt like that without love?
Was love essential?
Did it even exist - the love she had dreamed of her life?
If it did, it was too late now for her to find it.
Must she make do with this instead, then?
Only this?
Pleasure without love?”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“this has been a birthday best forgotten.”
“Most birthdays are, milord,” his man said agreeably”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

“I would be more inclined to tell my children the opposite,” she said. “Stop being fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.”
― Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction