Mary Balogh Quotes

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

He that's secure is not safe.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

I wish we could be 100% shielded from danger, but nothing is in life.

Nobody has any security in loving me.

It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

It's always a leap of faith when you get involved with somebody.

Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble.

The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you perfectly safe...But there is only one perfectly safe place for your kind, and you will not reach it until all your adventures are over and none of them matter any longer.

There is no safer. There’s not even safe, never has been.