Mary Balogh Quotes

And it only hurts when I'm breathing My heart only breaks when it's beating My dreams only die when I'm dreaming So, I hold my breath--to forget

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to go on living—‘all the appointed days,’ as is said in the Bible.

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

You don't get over a broken heart/ You just learn to carry it gracefully.

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

My mom's one of the toughest ladies I know. I've seen her lose both her brothers, both her parents. She's been through a lot, and to see her get up every day and put a smile on her face, that shows nothing but strength.

Always follow your heart. Sometimes it's gonna hurt - but you're going to be fine.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

Unfortunately, I can’t run from my heart. It hurts, deep inside my body. And I know I’ll never be the same.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.