I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
Mary BaloghAnd yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.
Mary BaloghThere had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?
Mary BaloghIt was strange how the heart clung to hope even when there was no reasonable basis for it, Morgan found. And how life went on.
Mary BaloghAnd he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.
Mary Balogh