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The Devil's Web

Mary Balogh

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I'm terrified that I will never be able to put him from my mind. I don't love him but I'm afraid that he will make it impossible for me ever to love anyone else.”

“Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?”

“The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.”

“Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?”

“Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.”

“Would she be able to bear never seeing him again? Never in this life?”

“One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?," she said, "I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up.”

“I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.”

“As he had once said to someone in England, though he did not care to remember whom, he had liked the sight of the sea because it represented his escape from England. And he had escaped. But she had said that perhaps it was from himself he wished to escape and that it could not be done. For wherever he went, he must inevitably take himself along too.”

“it. And if you ever strike me, I shall hit back. If you ever use me in anger or out of a wish to punish, I shall leave you.”

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