At Last Comes Love Quotes

“Falling in love was as much about receiving as it was giving, was it? It seemed selfish. It was not, though. It was the opposite. Keeping oneself from being loved was to refuse the ultimate gift.
He had thought himself done with romantic love. He had thought himself an incurable cynic.
He was not, though.
He was only someone whose heart and mind, and very soul, had been battered and bruised. It was still - and always - safe to give since there was a certain deal of control to be exerted over giving. Taking, or allowing oneself to receive, was an altogether more risky business.
For receiving meant opening up the heart again.
Perhaps to rejection.
Or disillusionment.
Or pain.
Or even heart break.
It was all terribly risky.
And all terribly necessary.
And of course, there was the whole issue of trust...”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip into a sort of suspended life that would be forever gray and meaningless if you did not somehow come back to me. I put back the pieces of my heart and kept on living. I am not the woman I was when I was in love with you and expecting to marry you. I am not the woman I was when I heard that you were married. I am the woman I have become in the five years since then, and she is a totally different person. I like her. I wish to continue living her life.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls so that we can start again.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo único que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Pero el pasado no se puede cambiar. Solo podemos controlar un
poco el futuro.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Mentimos para convencer al mundo, y para convencernos a nosotros mismos, de que somos algo que no somos...”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“¿Acaso existía el amor verdadero? La vida sería muy triste si no existiera... En
realidad, sería insoportable si los desengaños del amor romántico convirtieran a una persona en una cínica incurable.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“I think it is possible to start again, don't you? Life, I mean. It cannot possibly be intended that we simply acquire experience upon experience like a lot of excess baggage to carry about with us until we stagger into middle age and old age beneath the impossible weight of it all. We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the... all the pain to seep out of our bones and souls so that we can start again.”
― Mary Balogh , At Last Comes Love

“En ocasiones necesitamos tiempo para adquirir sabiduría y reparar los errores del pasado”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Había ciertos momentos en los que la vida daba un giro que cambiaba por completo el curso establecido. Y era característico que dichos momentos sucedieran sin previo aviso, dejando al interesado sin tiempo para considerar sus opciones o razonar consigo mismo sobre las repercusiones. De modo que solo quedaba tomar una decisión apresurada de la que casi se podía
decir que dependería el resto de la vida.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“We lie in order to persuade the world and ourselves that we are something we are not - usually something far better and more flattering than what we really are.”
― Mary Balogh (Author), At Last Comes Love

“When one does not believe oneself in any way good, there is very little for which to live - and one feels unworthy of even what little there is.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“La vida podía ser muy deprimente en ocasiones, pero siempre continuaba. No tenía sentido dejarse llevar por la depresión.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Pero había ciertos momentos a lo largo de la vida que definían a una persona para siempre... al menos ante sus propios ojos.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“—Ese es el inconveniente de los sueños, [...]No siempre se hacen realidad. Pero siempre aparecen nuevos sueños con los que reemplazar los antiguos. En el fondo somos una especie llena de esperanza.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“En ocasiones sucede algo tan catastrófico que durante un tiempo, a veces durante mucho tiempo, resulta imposible ver algo en la oscuridad,
incluso parece imposible creer que haya algo más allá. Pero siempre lo hay. Incluso, tal vez, en el momento de la muerte. Sobre todo en ese momento.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Algunas cosas pertenecían al corazón de cada cual.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“el matrimonio es un viaje, como la vida misma. No puedo esperar que sea perfecto desde el principio.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“Algunos días eran tan tranquilos que al cabo de una semana era imposible recordar lo que había sucedido en su transcurso. Otros estaban tan llenos de acontecimientos que era imposible
creer que veinticuatro horas dieran para tanto.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love

“La vida no era perfecta.
Salvo en ocasiones.”
― Mary Balogh, At Last Comes Love