Mary Balogh Quotes

I am a private human.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

I don't live in France; I live in myself.

I am my own person.

Everybody is their own person.

I've always wanted to be my own person. Even when I was 'Noah who rode horses,' I wanted to be Noah Cyrus, not anyone else or a family member.

I want people to see me as my own person.

It's very important in any relationship that one partner doesn't lose themselves in the other, and that's very easy if you're involved with a celebrity.

I can be someone's and still be my own.

It's very hard to sustain love, that's for sure. But the more you have your own life and your own self, and the less you give away who you are, the more men are attracted to you. The more desperate you are for a relationship, the worse it is to find a healthy relationship. Because the minute you become one-and-a-half people instead of two, it's a mess. Nobody's happy. Keeping your identity and having your own life and your own self, that's the only way I can make my life and sustain life.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

I don't want to be defined as someone's girlfriend.

Don't imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.

I love you so much. I love you enough that I want to stay separate from you. You're an extraordinary man, Frank Wright. I could so easily lose myself in your world and never make a world of my own. And where would that leave us? We'd both be bored stupid.

You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

I won't work with people who won't give me the freedom to be me.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.

Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

It is more important to be a personality than a person who is in a political party.