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“I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. 'You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality.' 'Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire,' he said, 'and to nurture your joy.” ― Mary Balogh, Slightly Dangerous Art by The Ponds of Gylieu - Charles-François Daubigny

  “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 Art by:  John Atkinson Grimshaw

“Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?” ― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair The Midlander by Frank Street probable interior illustration, November 1923 Oil on canvas

“How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within.” ― Mary Balogh, Only Enchanting Landscape at Hacking, Emil Jakob Schindler. Austrian (1842 - 1892)

“Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.” ― Mary Balogh, Simply Perfect Art by: Ron Hicks