I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again.
Mary BaloghIt was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.
Mary BaloghThe real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.
Mary BaloghShe was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.
Mary Balogh