Nora Roberts Quotes

I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me nothing is forever. No matter how bad or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level.

~ Nora Roberts

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

~ Nora Roberts

Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorrow.Well, that’s... inspiring.

~ Nora Roberts

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

~ Nora Roberts

She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.

~ Nora Roberts

You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one.

~ Nora Roberts

My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?

~ Nora Roberts

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

~ Nora Roberts

She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way.

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Well, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.

~ Nora Roberts

Happily ever after? If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.

~ Nora Roberts

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

~ Nora Roberts

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

~ Nora Roberts

Take a few minutes.No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to.Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

~ Nora Roberts

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

~ Nora Roberts

All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

~ Nora Roberts

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

~ Nora Roberts

Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.

~ Nora Roberts

Knowing isn't always believing.

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Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

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I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.

~ Nora Roberts

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

~ Nora Roberts

I think you're under no obligation whatsoever to forgive anything, to forget anything. You're not required to push away the years of abuse because the abuser now chooses to be sober and in his sobriety regrets his actions. And white may be small and unforgiving of me, I think people who do so at the snap of a dam finger are either liars or are in need of serious therapy. I assume you heard him out, so in my personal opinion, any debt you might owe for your existence is now paid in full. It may be fashionable to hold that terrible actions are indeed terrible, but that hte person inflicting them isn't responbile due to alcohol, drugs, DNA, or GD PMS. He damn well was responsible, and if you decided to loathe him for the rest of your life, I wouldn't blame you for it. How's that? (Cybil to Gage - she ROCKS)

~ Nora Roberts

You need a place just a click over middle range. Don’t want to go all-out first time, but you don’t want to run on the cheap either. You want atmosphere, but not stuffy. A nice established place.”“Bob, you’re going to give me an ulcer.”“This is all ammunition, Cart. All ammo. You want to be able to order a nice bottle of wine. Oh, and after dinner, if she says how she doesn’t want dessert, you suggest she pick one and you’ll split it. Women love that. Sharing dessert’s sexy. Do not go on and on about your job over dinner. Certain death. Get her to talk about hers, and what she likes to do. Then—”“Should I be writing this down?

~ Nora Roberts

I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.

~ Nora Roberts

A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.

~ Nora Roberts

You have to believe in it to get it...

~ Nora Roberts

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

~ Nora Roberts

Love spells are nothing but wives' tales. You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell. Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile. But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.

~ Nora Roberts

We've got this heat going on, that's all. If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not go into that end ofthings.Oh, it's all the same to me. You're both adults and you got two working brains between you. Bothof you were raised right, so what you do is your own business. Next time, though, lock the damn doorfirst.

~ Nora Roberts

It's Salvation. When Jen told me I had a vision. A vision Rena. I think I saw the blessed mother smiling and she was hold ing a loofa.[In regards to moving out of dorms and having three bathrooms between 4 roomates]

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Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

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Anything worth anything can be found in books.

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Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

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I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

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Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

~ Nora Roberts

He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

~ Nora Roberts

You have any complaints or comments, you direct them to me. If you call and harass Granddadagain, I'll do whatever I can, legally, to revoke that trust fund you've been living off of for the lastthirty years.You have no right to—No, you have no right. You never worked a day for this company, any more than you and mymother worked a day to be parents. Until he's ready to step aside, Eli MacMillan runs this show. Andwhen he's ready to step aside, I'll run it. Believe me, I won't be as patient as he's been. You cause himone more moment's grief, and we'll have more than a phone conversation about it.Are you threatening me? Do you plan to send someone after me like Tony Avano?No, I know how to hit you where it hurts. I'll see to it all your major credit cards are canceled.Remember, you're not dealing with an old man now. Don't fuck with me.He jabbed the off button, considered heaving the phone, then spotted Sophia standing at the edgeof the patio.

~ Nora Roberts

Love's a gift, and can certainly be refused. Refusing doesn't destroy the gift, it simply puts it aside. You're free to do that. I'm not expecting a gift in return. Take what's offered, especially when it's offered so generously and without expectations.

~ Nora Roberts

I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for. People say they know what's best for you. Maybe sometimes it's true. But it doesn't matter if they keep pushing until they take your choices away.

~ Nora Roberts