Quote by: Mary Balogh

Love does not involve emotions, then?" he asked her with a smile. "It is not ruled by them," she told him. "Love is liking and companionship and respect and trust. Love does not dominate or try to possess. Love thrives only in a commitment to pure, mutual freedom. That is why marriage is so tricky. There are the marriage ceremony and the marriage vows and the necessity for fidelity -all of them suggestive of restraints, even imprisonment. Men talk of life sentences and leg shackles in connection with marriage, do they not? But marriage out to be just the opposite -two people agreeing to set each other free,


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Author Bio


  • NameMary Balogh
  • DescriptionWelsh-Canadian novelist
  • BornMarch 24, 1944
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; Canada
  • ProfessionNovelist