Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.
Mary BaloghEven friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
Mary BaloghI prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.
Mary Balogh