A Summer to Remember Quotes

“And 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 Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“The people we love are usually stronger than we give them credit for. It is the nature of love, perhaps, to want to shoulder all the pain rather than see the loved one suffer. But sometimes pain is better than emptiness. I have been so empty Kit. All my life. So full of emptiness. That is strange paradox is nit not - full of emptiness?”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“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 Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“Every...woman," the old lady said, "loves a ...rogue.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“If I had smiled and fawned over you at Lady Mannering’s ball,” she said, “and if I had simpered and giggled during the drive in Hyde Park, you would have lost interest in me in a moment, Lord Ravensberg.”

“Good Lord, yes,” he agreed. Perceptive of her.

“I would thank you not to take the Lord’s name in vain,” she said so primly that he was momentarily enchanted. “I see that I have behaved in quite the wrong manner with you. I should have encouraged you.”

“There is always time,” he suggested, moving his chair half an inch closer to hers, “to mend your ways, Miss Edgeworth.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“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.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“But it was possible to teach what one could not practice.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“But I was a dreamer, you see, not a weakling.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“It is impossible,” he said, “to put a label upon remembered feelings. They are colored too much by all our subsequent experiences.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“How is your grandmama?” “Busy setting out the family christening robes.” “Oh.” “I am to marry you before Christmas, get you with child by Christmas, and be pacing the floors of Alvesley by this time next year, tearing out my hair in clumps and wearing out my boot leather while you deliver our first boy. Strict orders. Why do you think I really came? Just to tell you that I love you?” “Foolish of me.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“Ah, and I have learned the difficult art of courtesy under all circumstances. In particular I always consider it my duty when at home to set my guests at their ease and to lead the conversation into topics that will neither embarrass them nor expose their ignorance.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“Please,” she said quietly, “let me go.” Would he really toss her in, fully clothed? Probably not, he decided. Undoubtedly not, in fact. “You wanted an adventure, Lauren,” he said. “You wanted a summer quite different from any other you have ever known. You wanted to know what it feels like to live as other people live—people who do not have to earn the respect and love of those who nurture them. You wanted to know exuberance and happiness and freedom from restraint. You cannot have it both ways. You cannot expect these things to drop into your lap if you do not reach out to embrace them. I cannot keep my side of our bargain if you will not allow me to.” “I do not know how to swim,” she said. “I will teach you,” he told her.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“No,” he said. “You do yourself an injustice. And it was not just a game. I really did—do—need a bride. Someone like you. But I should not have courted you with such . . . insensitivity. With such careless disregard for you as a person. I should not have allowed you, or any other lady, to become the object of a wager. You may be the perfect wife for me, but I would be just the worst possible husband for you.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“Good Lord, yes,” he agreed. Perceptive of her. “I would thank you not to take the Lord’s name in vain,” she said so primly that he was momentarily enchanted. “I see that I have behaved in quite the wrong manner with you. I should have encouraged you.” “There is always time,” he suggested, moving his chair half an inch closer to hers, “to mend your ways, Miss Edgeworth.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“Lord Ravensberg had not been coerced. He had complimented her eyes, however foolish the flattery. And he was undeniably attractive.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“It seemed that her family, concerned that she might be a wallflower at her first ball in over a year, had spent the few days since she had agreed to attend lining up prospective partners for her—and prospective suitors too? Just a little over a year ago she had danced at her wedding eve ball, secure in her own attractiveness, the cynosure of all eyes, the admired and envied bride of the Earl of Kilbourne. Tonight she was an aging, faded beauty, unable to attract her own partners, in dire danger of declining into a permanent and irrevocable spinsterhood. Or so her family made her feel.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“She was feeling almost happy. She allowed herself the qualifier of almost because she had accepted the fact that self-deception was also self-destructive. She would not deceive herself any more or hide behind any mask in an attempt to shield herself from the reality of her life.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“You would not dare,” she said indignantly. He looked at her sidelong. “That is one word that is inadvisable to use in my hearing,” he said, “unless you are quite prepared for me to take you up on it. I would certainly dare.” “You are no gentleman,” she told him. “Why is it,” he asked her as they ascended the marble steps, “that you still say that as if you had just now made the discovery?”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“He sat back on the seat and looked at her averted face. She was a far more complex person than he had ever dreamed. A wounded person. One who for some reason he did not understand had never been whole, and never free.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“All her life she had behaved the way she believed a lady ought to behave. And look where it had got her.”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember

“había”
― Mary Balogh, Momentos inolvidables

“connection”
― Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember