Only a Promise Quotes

“The trouble with running away is that you must always take yourself with you.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“I am your husband. When you feel lonely or afraid or unhappy, it is to me you must come. My arms are here for you, and my strength too for whatever it is worth. You will never be a burden to me.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“The comforting thing about difficult days, Chloe had learned from experience, was that the sun rose at the start of them and set at the end just as it did on any other day. And there was always the assurance of better days ahead.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“life was not easy. And what an earth-shatteringly original observation that was.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“But all through life, it seems, we have to learn and relearn the lesson of loving people unconditionally, no matter what.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“war often wounds the soul as deeply as it does the body, sometimes more so.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“One of the most horrible realities about the death of someone closely related, she remembered, was the necessity of going on almost immediately with the trivialities of living. As though nothing of any real significance had changed.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“If she allowed herself to wallow in self-pity, she would be in danger of becoming one of those habitual moaners and complainers everyone avoided.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“Butterflies were all very pretty in a meadow. They were altogether less comfortable in her stomach.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“It was beginning to feel like an almost familiar place to be. But perhaps hitting this new low had something to be said for it, she thought now, this morning, after she had awoken and realized in some surprise that she had slept for several hours. At least now there was no further down to go. And”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“Forever is not granted to any of us,” the duchess said. “Even tomorrow is not granted as by right. Any of us can go at any moment.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“try not to make judgments,” he said. “What is your good may be my evil. I try just to love—a simple enough concept, though even loving is not simple. Perhaps it merely means accepting people for who they are and respecting their choices and sympathizing with their pain.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“It is what we do with the pain, though, how we allow it to shape our character and actions and relationships that matters.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“If we can only face our worst fears and move forward into them and through them instead of cowering or turning tail and running as far from them as we can, then we will never have to fear anything ever again.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“one must not give in to defeat after just one try, or even, perhaps, after twenty.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“Each of us can do only what is within his power. If we dwell on our inability to solve the world's problems, our only possible recourse is despair. Despair accomplishes nothing.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise

“with a cluster of other servants.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Promise