Only a Kiss Quotes

“We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“No time is really wasted unless one never learns the lessons that it offers.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“The wind was cold and cut into her even though it was at her back, but she loved the wild sound and the salt smell of it and the deepened sense of solitude it brought.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“She had held her life to an even keel by killing all deep feeling, by living upon the surface of life.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“I do not want to drain all your light, Percy," she said.
Something sparked in his eyes.
"But there is never an end to light, Imogen," he told her, "or to love. I'll fill you so full of light that you will glow in the dark, and then when I want to love you in a very physical way I will be able to find you.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“It is impossible to recapture innocence once it has been exposed for the illusion it is," she said.
"Illusion?" He frowned. "Why should innocence be more unreal, more untrue, than cynicism?"
"I am not cynical," she said. "But no, I could not go back.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“Ben walked into the house and up the stairs with his two canes, but he propelled himself about much of the time after that in a wheeled chair, having decided that it was not an admission of defeat but rather a moving forward into a new, differently active phase of his life.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“What do you not have, Lord Hardford?” she asked. “For no one has everything, you know, or even nearly everything.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“He had been raised, after all, to stand alone and always to do what he believed to be right.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“you are usually in a different universe,” she said, “one that revolves about you. The Peninsula was full of rude, blustering officers who believed other people had been created to pay them homage. I always thought they were merely silly and best ignored.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“We women are impractical because we have hearts. Not that men do not, but they feel things differently. They do not feel the suffering around them, or, if they do, they know how to harden their hearts when it has nothing to do with them.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“I always do what my mother tells me, except when I do not.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“We will see,” he said. “Yes,”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss

“What if I should drop the ring?" Cyril asked on the way to the church.
Surely one of the functions of the best man - the principal function, in fact - was the calm the nerves of the bridegroom.
"Then you crawl around on the floor until you recover it," Percy said. "It will not happen."
"I have never done this before," Cyril added.
"Neither have I," Percy told him.”
― Mary Balogh, Only a Kiss