Someone to Honor Quotes

“Sometimes one does wonder if one lives quietly from choice or if in reality one is merely waiting for something that may never come.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“It is just that . . . I think you are worth knowing, though I cannot be sure.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“I can see why men do not take up knitting and such. They would never be able to pluck up the courage to go and get what they needed.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“She could not expect any man to love her that deeply if she did not also understand that he simply was, and that his wasness or isness made him forever the love of her heart. The love of her life.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Miss Abigail Westcott, he had concluded during the past week, when he had watched her far more than he had wanted to and far more than was good for him, did most of her living inside herself. Like an iceberg, she showed the merest tip of her totality to the world, even her family. Perhaps especially to them. He wondered if they realized it.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

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― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Smiles did not come naturally to him. He must learn how to let out the ones that were sometimes there deep inside him.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“I survived by learning to embrace that black emptiness, and I discovered that actually it was an infinity of light and possibility. I learned that my real self is inner and infinite and indestructible and quite independent of circumstances or labels.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Oh, how helpless women were. All they could do was nurture those people within the small confines of their world. But who knew? Perhaps nurturing was ultimately as important as anything else. Look where the wars waged by men had got the world. Into ever more wars and conflicts—that was where.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“How could she expect ever to find a man who would want to marry her just because she was? It was absurd. And she would have to return the compliment, would she not? She could not expect any man to love her that deeply if she did not also understand that he simply was, and that his wasness or isness made him forever the love of her heart. The love of her life.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“But it seemed to Abigail that this man was unknowable and deliberately so. He was totally self-contained. Trying to know him was a bit like trying to know granite.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Good God, why had someone not told him? Why had Harry not mentioned it? Oh, by the way, my sister is remaining here indefinitely to ruin our peace.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Perhaps he owed her an apology. But he did not want to apologize. For she represented all that had always most irritated him about the ladies who had crossed his path down the years. The entitlement. The assumption of superiority and power”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“There was something different about his face. It was not quite smiling, but the disciplined austerity had somehow gone from it. It was as though he had allowed some of himself to come out from that place deep within where he had hidden most of his life.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Some people look forward to going to heaven after they die,” he said. “For years after I purchased it, Rose Cottage was the earthly heaven to which I aspired.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“He wanted desperately to love her, to be able to make her happy, to be a family with her and their children. He wanted the dream—home, wife, children, love, happiness. Not fleetingly—gone almost before he could grasp it, darkness at its heart—but forever.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Awfully?” she said, taking his arm to descend the stairs. “I am full of awe,” he explained.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“It was delicate and pretty and always semifashionable because it had never been ultrafashionable.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“He was asked, rhetorically, he guessed, if he supposed the irons would heat themselves, a question that was followed by a not particularly complimentary remark about men.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“You did not grow up in the gutter. Your mother housed you and fed and clothed you. But even if you had, your basic human dignity would not be the less. Why should a king be of more value as a human being than a vagabond?”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“Maybe they do not have a breaking point. But even if they do, do you care, Abby?”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“He had spent almost two years hearing a baby cry in his nightmares while he found it impossible to reach her.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“I am not afraid of being single. I am afraid of making a marriage I would regret.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor

“I believe contempt says more about the person giving it than the one receiving. It demeans what ought to be righteous punishment.”
― Mary Balogh, Someone to Honor