A Secret Affair
Mary Balogh
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Everyone was a rose but even more complex than a mere flower. Everyone was made up of infinitely layered petals. And everyone had something indescribably precious at the heart of their being. No one was shallow. Not really.”
“I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.”
“Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.”
“Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.”
“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?”
“When I was nineteen," she said, "I was in love with being in love, I think. And I was given no chance to discover how deep - or not deep - that love would have gone.”
“The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?”
“Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.”
“He had always felt that he lived on the edges of life, Constantine realized, watching everyone else living, sometimes helping them do it.”
“There is no such thing as time. There is only our reaction to the inexorable progress of life.”
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