Mary Balogh Quotes

When I say, 'The choice to not marry,' that doesn't always translate into, 'I am a woman, and I am deciding that I am not going to get married,' or 'I am rejecting marriage.'

Couples often live out years of falsehood trying to protect and save a relationship, all the while destroying any chance of real relationship.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him.

I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a second date. I was too nasty, a real wise guy, and all the boys could tell what my rotten disposition was. Deep down, I wanted a commitment with a capital C. To get anywhere with me, a boy would have to sign his undying loyalty with his own blood.

Like most of the movies I get involved with, I resisted as long as possible, I really try to figure out why I shouldn't do it and this one had plenty of reasons "not to do it".

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

Everybody does what they want to do for their own specific reasons.

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

The reason people are uncomfortable is because Donald Trump acts. He doesn't talk with a bunch of people about it before, he just acts.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.

I really worked at becoming more assertive, and now none of my friends talk to me.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.

About the only question that we would say and this is a big one in our lives that we would say you don't just use pure reason to decide the answer to is anything that affects your happiness, because then gut and reason answer very different questions. So gut tells you "How do I feel about this right now?"

If your partner asks you if something bothers you, and something bothers you, the best thing you can do is say, "Yes, it bothers me." Otherwise you create a situation where they think everything is fine, continue with the offending behavior, while you build up a secret reservoir of resentment that will eventually come pouring out, to their shock.

Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred.

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.