Only Enchanting Quotes

“We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“There is a terrible pain,” she said softly, “about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“They were stranded on the opposite sides of death, at least for now, and that was all there was to it.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“One could not live forever, though, upon memories and dreams. One could not forever ignore the fact that one was alone and that perhaps one would be alone for the rest of one’s life.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“A funny thing, love. It was not always, or even mostly, a sexual thing.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“Once in, when did one fall out of love? It had taken several weeks back in October - though it seemed the feeling had merely lain dormant instead of going away altogether. How long would it take this time? And when would it be gone forever?”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“There is a l-life lesson here for all of us, is there, M-Mrs. Keeping?” he asked her. “We should all and always look upward, and all our t-troubles will be at an end?” She smiled. “If only life were that simple.” “But for daffodils it is,” he said. “We are not daffodils.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“Sometimes sexuality was more compelling when it was not overt.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“Your father is your f-father regardless, Agnes. Birth and b-breeding do not always depend upon small matters like who provided the seed.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“But one never quite reached the point at which one could relax and know that one had made it through to the other side of suffering and could now be simply content, even happy, inside a balanced mix of body, mind, and spirit.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“I do not understand dalliance, Lord Ponsonby.” “But you are d-drawn to it, Mrs. Keeping.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“openness and truth between partners were necessary if the marriage was to have a chance of bringing them any sort of happiness.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“looking down on them. There was no sky in the painting, only grass and flowers. Time crawled by when she was not painting, and sometimes even when she was. She could not see the Middlebury Park visitors leaving quickly enough. Perhaps her peace would be restored when they had gone away. When he had gone away.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“nearest their window was horribly visible”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within.” His”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting

“There is a terrible pain,' she said softly, 'about being abandoned by someone who loves someone else more than you. A pain and an emptiness and a determination never again to give anyone that power.”
― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting