A Certain Magic Quotes

“She did not want it. She did not want all this again. How she wished he had not come.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“She would spend the rest of her life wondering about him . . .

She would wonder if he ever thought of her . . .”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“She wanted it to last forever. She wanted him in her. She wanted release. She could not endure much longer without release. But not yet. Not yet. She wanted the wanting him to go on forever. She did not want thought or sanity or the cold and cruel world to come back. She wanted this to go on forever.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“He opened his mouth over hers.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“For Allie would suffer for what she had done this night. And he would be the last person on this earth who could comfort her.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“Never the end, my love. Now that I have you at last. Only beginnings.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“I loved you passionately. I always dreamed of your loving me, far back where dreams are kept.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“I fell in love with you when I saw you that summer," he said. "I adored you for years afterward. You were so lovely, so pure, so totally unattainable.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“It seems we have been sharing a mutual blindness," he said very quietly.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“Can't you see? Have you been blind all these years? Haven't you known that it has always been you? Always?”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“I could not possibly want anything more.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“She felt horribly out of control of the conversation.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“So little time. And all the pain looming ahead again.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“She wished and wished that he had not come. She had thought all that turmoil behind her. She had achieved a hard-won measure of tranquility in the past three months. She did not want it all destroyed. She did not want another three days with him. And the inevitable parting again.

She did not believe she could hold on to her sanity if she had to go through all that again.

If! She was already going through it.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“Piers was the last person she had expected to see. She had thought never to see him again. And he was unmarried, unbetrothed, unattached.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“I shall allow you to return to your trunks and your mice in the attic, then," he said. "One hates to interrupt a lady when she is having fun.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“A shocking humiliation, is it not?" he said. "What are we going to do about it, Allie? Marry each other as a consolation?”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“Ah, something about young love, I believe. There is no stopping it, apparently.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“He had reacted to pain and loss in a remarkably immature manner—as usual. Nothing much ever changed in his life, except the incidentals.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“All that had happened would not have happened. She would not be raw with pain. She would be safely content.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“He sat on the edge of the bed, his aching head in his hands for a few moments. "Deuce take it, I wish I were dead.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“And she was in his arms, her head pillowed against his shoulder, held to him, rocked against him. She closed her eyes and willed herself to remember every detail of this moment for the rest of her life. The hard muscularity of his body. The comfort of his arms and his shoulder. His cheek against the top of her head. The warmth and the smell of him. He and she, and their child between them.

Perhaps thirty seconds. At the most a minute. A minute to last a lifetime.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“He would see her for perhaps five minutes the next morning, when he would be tongue-tied with all there was to say. And then the journey back to London. And Cassandra. And his wedding. And the rest of his life.

And never Allie again.

Never again.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“And there was nothing more to say. They sat and gazed at each other from opposite corners of the carriage and could not even smile.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“I am sorry all the same," she said. "And that it rained this afternoon. I could have wished that today would be perfect.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“I am sorry now. I missed an hour of your company."

"A dreadful thing to miss," he said. "Your life will be forever impoverished, Allie.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“But good-byes are hard to say . . . when a friendship is a very close one.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“This strange gladness, this elation, would not outlive the return of common sense and cold reality.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“It had not after all been an isolated experience in the past, over and done with and to be relived only in memory. It was continuing into the present and the future.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic

“Time was going altogether too fast. Too wonderfully and too fast.”
― Mary Balogh, A Certain Magic