Remember Me Quotes

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― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“It was a time of sadness, of course. All the mourners had lost parents or grandparents or great-grandparents or friends or neighbors, and it was hard not to feel great sorrow for one’s own loss at such a time. It was always hard to grasp the fact that one would never see those beloved people again or hear their voices or feel their presence in the world. Goodbyes were never easy, especially when they were final.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“How is it possible, Phil,” he asked her, “to be raw with grief and glowing with happiness at the same time?” “Because it all comes from love,” she said, squeezing his hand. “Because we loved them and miss them but know there was nothing so very sad about their passing. Quite the contrary. And because love continues here—with their blessing. We have each other, Lucas, and the twins. And your family and mine. We have an abundance of love, and we know it will never end. Ever.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“It was amazing how two children, born of the same womb within half an hour of each other, could be so very different in temperament.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“Sometimes life just happened, whether a person was ready for it or not.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“Life was made up of moments, following endlessly upon one another throughout a lifetime. One must grasp those that were good and face those that were not as they came.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“I want to make the world and life perfect for all of you. Including Mama. But that is not within my power, is it?” “No.” She shook her head. “It is enough that you love us all, Dev.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“The marchioness destroyed more than just her own life. She permanently scarred the life of her fourteen-year-old son. It was really no excuse that she did not know he was aware of the truth. Our father, who perhaps assumed that what he did during the spring months here in London while he was away from Mama and all of us would do us no harm, was actually wreaking future havoc upon all of us.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“He understood that there was one very basic difference between what marriage meant to a woman and what it meant to a man, Philippa realized. A bride must relinquish both her family and her home in order to live in the midst of a new family in a strange home. It was a huge difference.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“Or by those who found fault wherever they went and were determined to be miserable.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“her brother had spoken the truth about their father and his paramour and done it publicly before everyone in their family and neighborhood, whereas their mother had kept it to herself for years before that. Who had been right and who wrong? There was no obvious answer, was there?”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“We are all brought up to believe that we ought always to speak the truth openly to the world and do what is right and just, even when it is painful to do so. When we grow up, though, we quickly learn that concealing the truth and doing nothing is sometimes the wiser option to avoid a devastating impact upon other, innocent people.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“I have always . . . consoled myself,” she said, “with the belief that at least he amused himself with women whose profession it was to give pleasure and be very well paid in exchange. Though even that was scant comfort, for I daresay many if not most of those women are forced into what they do by penury or other dire circumstances. But at least I believed he had never destroyed another family as he had ours.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“For very pride’s sake she had kept quiet about the humiliation that had ravaged her life. There was all the horror of being pitied if one spoke out.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“Philippa knew why her mother had kept everything bottled up inside. It was the innate compulsion some people—particularly women?—felt not to make a fuss, not to display their suffering and humiliation to the whole world or even to those who are nearest and dearest to them.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me

“Ah, what we do to destroy ourselves, Philippa thought. Yet so many of us do it.”
― Mary Balogh, Remember Me