Nora Roberts Quotes

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

~ Nora Roberts

I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.”He closed the distance between them. “You’ll get used to it.” He tipped her face up to his, kissed her.“Why? Why am I the one?”“Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

~ Nora Roberts

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you

~ Nora Roberts

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

~ Nora Roberts

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

~ Nora Roberts

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

~ Nora Roberts

Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many. I never thought about it quite that way. Well, you're a man. She gave his knee a friendly pat.

~ Nora Roberts

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure.

~ Nora Roberts

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.

~ Nora Roberts

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

~ Nora Roberts

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

~ Nora Roberts

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....

~ Nora Roberts

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

~ Nora Roberts

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

~ Nora Roberts

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.

~ Nora Roberts

it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last. -adrianneIt should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold. -philip

~ Nora Roberts

I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word impinge- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford.Me and Shrek, we're onions.

~ Nora Roberts

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

~ Nora Roberts

I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left.”“You didn't give me up,” she tossed back. “You never wanted me.”“I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you.” He dragged her painfully to her toes. “I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.

~ Nora Roberts

As a rule of thumb, I'd say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if you're going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy.

~ Nora Roberts

Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?

~ Nora Roberts

Do you want to fix it?I just said I was in love with her. Why wouldn't I want to fix it?You want to know how?Goddamn it, Del. He drank again. Yes, since you're so fucking smart. How do I fix it?Crawl.Jack blew out a breath. I can do that.

~ Nora Roberts

Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?

~ Nora Roberts

You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going to work on you. Last time around, you threw yourself at me.” “I did no such thing.”“Sure you did. But I can see I've got my work cut out for me this time. That's okay.” He skimmed his thumb over her knuckles before she jerked her hand free. “In fact, I think I'm going to enjoy it.”“I don't know why I waste my time trying to mend fences with you. You're as arrogant as you ever were.”“Just the way you like me, sweetheart.

~ Nora Roberts

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.

~ Nora Roberts

You can fix anything but a blank page.

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Good fiction creates its own reality.

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The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.

~ Nora Roberts

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

~ Nora Roberts

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del’s hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.

~ Nora Roberts

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—”“I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.”“Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.”“For a while. Minus the singing.

~ Nora Roberts

Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.

~ Nora Roberts

Nodding, Parker ate. “He’s an exceptional kisser.”“He really is. He . . . How do you know?” When Parker just smiled, Emma’s jaw dropped. “You? You and Jack? When? How?”“I think it’s disgusting,” Mac muttered. “Yet another best pal moving on my imaginary ex.”“Two kisses, my first year at Yale, after we ran into each other at a party and he walked me back to the dorm. It was nice. Very nice. But as exceptional a kisser as he is, it was too much like kissing my brother. And as exceptional a kisser as I am, I believe he felt it was too much like kissing his sister. And that’s how we left it. I gather that wasn’t an issue for you and Jack.

~ Nora Roberts

You know what she's made of.Yeah, good stock, good breeding, a hard head and a hunger to win. She flashed him a smile as they approached the kitchen door. I've been told that describes me. I'm half Irish, Brian, I was born stubborn.No arguing with that. A person might make the world a calmer place for others by being passive, but you don't get very far in it yourself, do you?Look at that. We have a foundation of agreement. Now tell me you like spaghetti and meatballs.It happens to be a favorite of mine.That's handy. Mine, too. And I heard a rumor that's what's for dinner. She reached for the doorknob, then caught him off guard by brushing a light kiss over his lips. And since we'll be joining my parents, it would probably be best if you didn't imagine me naked for the next couple of hours.She sailed in ahead of him, leaving Brian helplessly and utterly aroused.

~ Nora Roberts

I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want.

~ Nora Roberts

If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—”“Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.

~ Nora Roberts

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.

~ Nora Roberts

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.

~ Nora Roberts

Abby: You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you.Dylan: You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you. Abby: Intimidating? Me?Dylan: It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you isn't it? It's incredible.

~ Nora Roberts

Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

~ Nora Roberts