I am still not used to being the possessor of such a grand title. I believe I shall have to start wearing a purple satin turban and carrying a lorgnette.

— Mary Balogh

I believe,” he said gently, “we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure if we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else’s. The trouble with life is sometimes that we are all in it together.

— Mary Balogh

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

— Mary Balogh

I do believe in fate, Anne-not the blind fate that gives one no freedom of choice, but a fate that sets down a pattern for each of our lives and gives us choices, numerous choices, by which to find that pattern and be happy.

— Mary Balogh

I do not admire greatness that has no substance.

— Mary Balogh

If you are never frightened, sir, you would never find out what you was made of and what you was capable of doing. You would never become a better man than what you started out being. P'raps this is what you will discover - what you are made of and what you are capable of. And when you finally do remember who you are, p'raps you will find that you have become a better man than he ever was. P'raps he was a man why never ever grew any more once he reached manhood. P'raps he needed to do something drastic like losing his memory so that he could get his life unstuck.

— Mary Balogh

If you have always suspected your sister of an inclination to madness, it will be my pleasure to confirm your worst fears.

— Mary Balogh

I know it is something of a cliché to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.

— Mary Balogh

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.

— Mary Balogh

It is foolish to regret anything form one's past.

— Mary Balogh