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I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain. -- Nora Roberts
I love you. I love everything about you. Your voice, your laugh. Your eyebrows when they grow back. Your face, your body, your hard head and your cautious heart. I want to spend the rest of my life looking at you, listening to you, working with you, just being with you. Rowan of the purple lupines. -- Nora Roberts
Just because a man had a trace of blue blood in his veins didn't mean he was quality. It didn't make him a gentleman, either. All it made him was an aristocrat. -- Nora Roberts
He'd said he was in love with her. And that just filled her up and emptied her out again. It made her want to shake, it made her want to weep. It made her want to hold onto him as if her life depended on it. -- Nora Roberts
Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me. -- Nora Roberts
That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the path, he shits right by the door. Why is that?
Ryder asked.
Owen replied, "Hence the name."
The name of Ryder's dog ... Dumbass ... -- Nora Roberts
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
Is staying quiet an interrogation technique?"
"It can be. It can be also called listening. -- Nora Roberts
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How do I know you'll stay? How do I know, if I let myself love you, that one day there wouldn't be someone else, something else, and you'd just walk away? I can handle being alone now, I know how. But I can't
I won't be left again. -- Nora Roberts
Excuse me, but I'm very tired of being interrupted and ordered around and spoken to like a recalicitrant eight-year-old."
"Then don't behave like one," Brian suggested. -- Nora Roberts
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and, ah, how old is my heart. -- Nora Roberts
If I didn't say it, how do you know?" "When you touch me, when you look at me, when you hold me, I feel it." She looked up at him, eyes drenched. "And I couldn't love you this much without you loving me back. I couldn't know how right it is to be with you if I didn't know you loved me. -- Nora Roberts
Some days, the music is not in tune, but it's always a song worth singing.
That's the best description of a good marriage I've ever heard ... -- Nora Roberts
It's good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume," she qualified, "but know. To be with someone, who even when you don't think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I'm not going to look around the corner for what's next. -- Nora Roberts
You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it. -- Nora Roberts
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
I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you. -- Nora Roberts
Life will be your treasure box, filled with the sparkle of laughter, the gleam of adventure, the shine of discovery, the flash of magic. And through all these jewels streams the steady glow of love. -- Nora Roberts
I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had -- Nora Roberts
She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way. -- Nora Roberts
Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off. -- Nora Roberts
That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me."
"Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking."
"They're wise to fear me. -- Nora Roberts
She could hold him close now, touch as she was touched. Taste as she was tasted. The pleasure filled her - the glide of his hands, the heat of his lips, the catch of his breath as they rolled together to find more. -- Nora Roberts
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. -- Nora Roberts
Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us? ... Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie -- 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
My apartment's only about a block away."
"Isn't that handy."
"Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?"
"One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours. -- Nora Roberts
Do you believe in reincarnation? ... I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again. -- Nora Roberts
I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you. -- Nora Roberts
I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email. -- Nora Roberts
He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table.
Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment. -- Nora Roberts
If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it. -- Nora Roberts
Her mother would be married by then, and just back from her honeymoon.
Maddy and Theo would be her brother and sister, and back in school. She would be planning her own
wedding, though she'd pressured Tyler not to announce their engagement yet. -- Nora Roberts
Fine, a Lithuanian couple gets lost because, like men across the globe, he values his penis - among other things - as a compass. So he's incapable of asking for directions and thereby disparaging the power of his penis. -- Nora Roberts
But I did it because you can't constantly be afraid of what might happen. If you do, you lose control of what is happening, and all the joy and pain it holds for you. -- 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
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love. -- Nora Roberts
He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up. -- 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
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. -- Nora Roberts
It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with. -- Nora Roberts
If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway. -- Nora Roberts
Roarke "I'll drop you." Eve "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy sees me show up in a hot car with a fancy piece behind the wheel, he's not going to like me." Roarke "You know how I love being referred. to as your fancy piece." Eve "Sometimes you're my love muffin. -- Nora Roberts
I thought it was over, all I could think was I never told you I love you. What an idiot. -- 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
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two. -- Nora Roberts
Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small things: a kiss goodnight, a word of affection ... a child can starve with a full plate. -- Nora Roberts
Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls. -- Nora Roberts
-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave. -- Nora Roberts
It wasn't like a date, she reasoned. Not like some weird double date with her and the brother of the dead guy and her best friend and her best friend's ex-husband who didn't really count. It was just eating. -- Nora Roberts
My mother said once that we were all hers already. We just hadn't found each other before. -- Nora Roberts
I don't give a damn what they say about me, but nobody's going to talk behind their hands about you. Where the hell did you get that skirt? he exploded. Tarts U Us? -- Nora Roberts
In his experience you got more results with flat reason than angry confrontation. He just had to keep reminding himself he wanted results and not the satisfaction of a fight. -- Nora Roberts
Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time. -- Nora Roberts
Courage comes in different forms. There's strength
that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything. -- Nora Roberts
I guess I used it up. It's taking all -- Nora Roberts
Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad. -- Nora Roberts
You're angry with me becuase you care about me. This water's too hot," she said when she tested it.
"No,it isn't.And I'm not angry with you at t'all." Murmuring to the gelding, he lay the heated flannel over the abscess. "A bit with myself, maybe, but it's more satisfying to take it out on you. -- Nora Roberts
She reached out, found Eli's hand, brought it to her lips in a gesture Sophia had never seen her
make -- Nora Roberts
Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way - the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all. -- Nora Roberts
I won't argue. It's different for everyone, isn't it? Love, magick, and how we see and deal. And in each, the choices we make. -- Nora Roberts
There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing. -- Nora Roberts
HESTER'S POOL WAS ALSO FORBIDDEN IN CAL'S world, which was only one of the reasons it was irresistible. -- Nora Roberts
Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind. -- Nora Roberts
It might be fun."
"Love's supposed to be." Laura smiled. "When it's not hell. -- Nora Roberts
He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome. -- Nora Roberts
Love's not a faulty toaster. You can't take it apart and study the pieces, replace a part and figure out how it all fits back together. You just feel it. -- Nora Roberts
And don't worry." Bob, Carter's best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. "I've got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line."
"You're a treasure, Bob."
She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh. -- Nora Roberts
A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours. -- Nora Roberts
You put something behind you, Nome, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going." -Mason Carson (Bowes) -- Nora Roberts
Eve rose stiffly when he strode out of the house. In silence, she watched Julia look after him. "The male ego," Eve murmured as she crossed the room to put an arm around Julia's shoulders. "It's a huge and fragile thing. I always envision it as an enormous penis made of thin glass. -- 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
Love, even when it's not real, can be deadly. -- Nora Roberts
Sometimes we hate her," Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. "But it's a hate based on love. -- Nora Roberts
He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know. -- Nora Roberts
her. It's impossible not to. It bothers me to -- Nora Roberts
You put something behind you, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going. -- Nora Roberts
Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake. -- Nora Roberts
need this." Maureen jogged in place. "Eighteen kindergartners on a sugar high. Every teacher in America should have their salaries doubled and get a bouquet of roses every freaking week. And a bottle of Landon Whiskey's gold label." "I -- Nora Roberts
Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend. -- Nora Roberts
They'd look attractive together because they're both attractive. That's not the same thing as right. -- Nora Roberts
What's an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them? -- Nora Roberts
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me. -- Nora Roberts
What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence. -- Nora Roberts
Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?'
'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast. -- Nora Roberts
I know you ... I know if you love him there's something in him that makes him worthy of it. -- Nora Roberts
'Scent's the thing, right? How you find someone. I've got yours inside me. I could find you whether I wanted to or not. Whether you wanted me to or not.'
'I'm not lost.'
'I still found you.' -- Nora Roberts
What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly. -- Nora Roberts
That's what I used to tell her. And she'd say it's not the age, it's the seniority."
"She loves you. A lot."
"Feeling's mutual. What're you smiling at? -- Nora Roberts
Twenty-five thousand," Maggie murmured. A tidy sum, even tidier ten years ago. "You're telling me you think the money was the motive for murder?" "Money's always a motive for murder, and it's a loose end. -- Nora Roberts
You are wise as well as short."
"I can also break bricks with my bare hands."
"That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath. -- Nora Roberts
As long as there's choice, the end is never set. -- Nora Roberts
Could you rewind that question?" "Zack's working up to asking you -- Nora Roberts
And my father?"
Brian's grin flashed. "I like thinking that's where I got the fifty.I told him he's better off sticking with the horses."
Keeley's brow rose. "And his response to that?"
"Isn't something I can repeat in polite company. -- Nora Roberts
I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you, Gulliver. -- Nora Roberts
You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love? -- Nora Roberts
He's a moody creature,isn't he?" she said to the bird. Auntie Em gave one impatient squawk, the extent of her vocabulary.
"Sounds like she got up on the wrong side of the perch," Alan commented.
"Oh,no.She's in a good mood if she says anything. -- Nora Roberts
her long, lovely eyes, mirrored the grief. "It's a hard, hard thing. I can't even imagine it." "Your life stops right there. Just stops. And when it starts up again, it's different. It's never what it was before that moment. Never." He -- Nora Roberts
My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull. -- Nora Roberts
Doing nothing sometimes hurts more than doing something. Life doesn't come with a guarantee, which is just as well, because most guarantees are bullshit. -- Nora Roberts
It's me. I always expect too much. I'm always floored when I don't get it. -- Nora Roberts
Why would you apologize for what you read for pleasure? Just think of the illiteracy rate. Every book read for pleasure should be celebrated. And novels that celebrate love, commitment, relationships, making relationships work, why isn't that something to be respected? -- Nora Roberts
It really is. Come on in. Can I get you some coffee? -- Nora Roberts
Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care. -- Nora Roberts
Some people refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most, because you're afraid someday you might lost it. -- Nora Roberts
Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it. -- Nora Roberts
Do you need to get that? Wherever it is."
"If I do, somebody'll just want to talk to me. I'd rather talk to you."
How anyone could work in such confusion and disorder was beyond her. -- Nora Roberts
She heard music. Angels singing? she thought, dizzy. It seemed odd for angels to sing after table sex. She managed to swallow on a throat wildly dry. "Music," she murmured.
"My phone. In my pants. Don't care."
"Oh. Not angels."
"No. Def Leppard. -- Nora Roberts
Put something on," Tyler ordered. "And lock the doors. I'll check it out."
"No, you won't." She was already marching to her closet. "We'll check it out. Nobody pushes me
around," she said as she dragged on a sweater and pants. "Nobody. -- Nora Roberts
He'd learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic. -- Nora Roberts
The saddest songs are always about love. -- Nora Roberts
It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war. -- Nora Roberts
Just because she was a woman, did she have to act coy and pretend to be flattered when a man tried to slobber all over her/ -- Nora Roberts
I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing. -- Nora Roberts
We can't have choice and free will and still be fated. -- Nora Roberts
What good are laws if they're not human? -- 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
Grown-ups get lonely at night, and they like to have someone to sleep with. Like Mom and Daddy do. I have my bear," she continued, referring to her favorite stuffed animal. "So I don't get lonely. -- Nora Roberts
That was really good driving," Maddy told her.
"Yeah, thanks."
"Here, baby. Here." Pilar turned her, held her when the shakes came. And, holding her, reached
out for Maddy. "Here, baby," she said again. Maddy pressed herself into that circle of comfort and let
the tears come. -- Nora Roberts
Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything. -- Nora Roberts
My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.' -- Nora Roberts
The other two of her three kids stood on the covered front porch, tails wagging, feet dancing. One of the best things about dogs, to Fiona's mind, was their absolute joy in welcoming you home, whether you'd been gone for five minutes or five days. There lay unconditional and boundless love. -- Nora Roberts
It's crowded," she murmured as her eyes laughed into his.
"The longer we're in here..." His thighs brushed against hers as a toddler wiggled up to the glass. "The fonder I am of snakes. -- Nora Roberts
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
I've never used a screwdriver, he -- Nora Roberts
When a woman brings something up, then doesn't have much to say about it, she's got a lot to say about it." "Then -- Nora Roberts
tidy bed was a restful bed -- Nora Roberts
Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before. -- Nora Roberts
I was your lover Liam, but never your partner. I won't settle for that, not even for you. You had my heart in your hands, and you didn't know what to do with it. I can tell you, without the crystal ball, without the gift, you will never have another like it. -- Nora Roberts
Until I learned to accept I was a victim, but I didn't have to stay one. In -- 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
But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out -- Nora Roberts
I've fallen pretty deep in...care with you. -- Nora Roberts
The lack of energy struck unfairly keen when Mo bounced into the stables. Just had to come by before I headed off to the hell of school. -- Nora Roberts
Simon's initial annoyance with having so many people and animals swarming around gave way to the realization that sometimes people didn't get in the way, but helped make a necessary and tedious job go smoother. -- Nora Roberts
It's part of us," she said jerkily. "How could I not want part of us? It's your baby.I'm carrying your baby and I love it so much already it terrifies me."
"Oh,Diana." He touched her then, gently, his hands on her face. "You've let two weeks go by when we could have been terrified together. -- 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
Roarke is her everything, as she is his. It matters, I think, that these two people who came from abuse and viciousness found each other, helped make each other into better people. Love opened them to more. -- Nora Roberts
Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone ... Alone and lonely have the same root. -- Nora Roberts
... the rain was a fine thing. She often preferred it to the warm slant of sun and the clear brilliance of cloudless blue skies. The rain was a soft gray curtain, tucking her away from the world. -- Nora Roberts
However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death. -- Nora Roberts
I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance. -- Nora Roberts
It didn't take him long, and he pulled up nearly nose-to-nose with Ash as they came in from opposite directions.
"You shaved off your ... " It couldn't rightfully be called a beard, Brooks considered. "Face hair."
"Yeah, it got too hot."
"Uh-huh. -- Nora Roberts
You're not beautiful," he said in a quiet statement that made her brow knit. "Why do you look beautiful when you're not? -- Nora Roberts
[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done. -- Nora Roberts
It's right he's paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours. -- Nora Roberts
Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything. -- Nora Roberts
Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on. -- Nora Roberts
I'm a little let down," Laurel said. "I expect a sexy breakfast story to have sex, not just your very pretty boobs." "I'm not done. Part two begins when I'm back home working, and carelessly answer the phone. My mother. -- Nora Roberts
Damn skippy." "Who is Skippy? Why are you mad at him?" "It's an expression. Like bet your ass." "People -- Nora Roberts
As she spoke, as she looked out over the garden, Pilar ran a hand absently over Maddy's hair, left
it lying on her shoulder. The gesture made everything inside the girl go warm. And made her sigh.
What's wrong? -- Nora Roberts
She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone? -- Nora Roberts
Tucker, you tell that girl when I offer to have a brandy with a Yankee, that Yankee better drink. -- Nora Roberts
When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right. -- Nora Roberts
For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. -- Nora Roberts
When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it". -- Nora Roberts
A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed. -- Nora Roberts
Ty?"
"Hmmm."
"It doesn't hurt as much when you hold me."
"Good. Go to sleep. -- Nora Roberts
I learned you must always accept love when it's offered, always give it when it's needed. There might not be a second chance. And I know, too, that until your heart's been broken, you never know the full beauty of love. -- Nora Roberts
Stop
thinking of yourself as a reflection of what a man saw in you, andbe. I asked you if it bothered you that
people will talk. I wish you'd said the hell with people. Let them talk. It's time you gave them something
to talk about. -- Nora Roberts
The woman's managed what hasn't been done in thirty-one years. She's broke my god dawn nose -- Nora Roberts
You're seriously talking about a ghost. This building - or parts of it - has been here for two and a half centuries. It would strike me odder if there wasn't a ghost. Not everything, everyone, leaves. -- Nora Roberts
The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable. -- Nora Roberts
weigh the scale. I'd say -- Nora Roberts
I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere. -- Nora Roberts
Everyone needs cake, Del. -- Nora Roberts
I love you. I'm in love with you.
She heard absolutely nothing for ten full seconds. And when he did speak, she caught the faintest trace of fear mixed in with the annoyance.
Hell. No good deed goes unpunished. -- Nora Roberts
I've been happy alone and I've been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you. -- Nora Roberts
Flowers, champagne, caviar. Do you usually come so well equipped when you break and enter?"
"Only when I want to apologize and throw myself on the mercy of a beautiful woman. -- Nora Roberts
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea. -- Nora Roberts
Laura, there aren't any guarantees. You certainly know that. Yes, you could be hurt. You could also be happy. Or you could just get your oil checked. -- Nora Roberts
When the moon wanes, the darkness eats it. Bite by bite. -- Nora Roberts
Fitzgerald could take care of herself. Chapter 3 For the third morning in a row, Maggie was awakened by the sound of men and machinery outside her windows. -- Nora Roberts
Necessity is often the mother of balls -- Nora Roberts
You'd think the man could have called her once, she thought, scowling at her boots. Sent a telegram, a damn smoke signal. -- Nora Roberts
If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee. -- Nora Roberts
knew she gave him pain. But he -- Nora Roberts
You took care of our girl. -- Nora Roberts
- I believe in us. - He kissed her again, swayed with her. - You're the one I can dance with. -- Nora Roberts
Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. -- Nora Roberts
Her head, stopped a breath from his lips, pulled back, -- Nora Roberts
own personal calendar. -- Nora Roberts
To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together. -- Nora Roberts
The wounded recognized the wounded. -- Nora Roberts
Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He -- Nora Roberts
I know it. Just as I know if you made it a choice between you and me, I wouldn't stand a chance. -- Nora Roberts
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress -- Nora Roberts
'Sweet magnetic Jesus on the dashboard. On the table?' -- Nora Roberts
A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies. -- Nora Roberts
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. -- Nora Roberts
Because when you hate something, you stop doing it. -- Nora Roberts
Damn you, you made up lame excuses and practically patted me on the head. And tonight, you've got an itch and you're annoyed that I wasn't here to scratch it. -- Nora Roberts
West cowboy gun belts. When a man's wearing one - naturally - a woman knows he can handle himself. -- Nora Roberts
Served her right, he thought, riling him up the way she had. "Hurt your foot?"
The amused and satisfied tone didn't escape her notice. "I stepped on a rock while I was running
after this big, stupid culo."
"Which would be me. -- Nora Roberts
But you stand up for me. You tell me the truth. You make me laugh, and you make me want. You let me be and feel who I am. And you fell in love with me even when you didn't want to. -- Nora Roberts
She didn't care for the way he stared at her, either. Even when he wasn't looking at her it felt as if he were staring. And as if he'd read her thoughts, he shifted his eyes to hers again. His smile was slow, unmistakably insolent, and made her want to bare her teeth in a snarl. -- 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
I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give. -- Nora Roberts
Everything had changed.Everything was different. And he was desperate to tell her. Cam knew his life
had turned on its axis yet again. And somehow he'd ended up exactly where he needed to be.
The only thing missing was Anna. -- Nora Roberts
Grief swarmed into her heart like angry bees. -- 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
Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful. -- Nora Roberts
moment, thought, what the hell? -- Nora Roberts
After hell comes heaven. -- Nora Roberts
When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember. -- Nora Roberts
Time to swim, she told herself. She simply wouldn't sink. -- Nora Roberts
He almost felt guilty about bringing even fictional murder and mayhem to such a place. Almost. -- Nora Roberts
I'll want you just as much tomorrow," he murmured, stroking her hair. "And a year from tomorrow. I can promise to wait to ask you again, Shelby, but I can't promise to wait until you're ready to answer. -- Nora Roberts
People in hell want snowcones. -- Nora Roberts
Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story. -- Nora Roberts
Decision. On bad days, Eli considered Wolfe his personal Javert - doggedly, -- Nora Roberts
I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex. -- Nora Roberts
Squeezed back. Or, more likely, someone -- Nora Roberts
A man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman. -- Nora Roberts
It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple?
Hadn't she mattered at all? -- Nora Roberts
What do you want?"
His brow lifted at that, and he took a long, leisurely study of her face. "I'll let that pass,"he decided.
"It's too easy. -- Nora Roberts
Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold. -- Nora Roberts
You're going to need this," she said, and pulled out a condom.
"At some point, we're also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher."
"Promises, promises. -- Nora Roberts
Her doctor called it depression, but Naomi knew that as bad as depression could be, the dark times were worse. In the dark times her mother took too many pills. -- Nora Roberts
If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her. -- 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
Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy -- Nora Roberts
Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. -- Nora Roberts
Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple. -- Nora Roberts
Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better. -- Nora Roberts
Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life. -- Nora Roberts
And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone's private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own. -- Nora Roberts
Seraphina had found nothing but an end, she thought, a horribly easy end to pain. Her own wouldn't be easy, because she would have to live with it. Live without Michael. And finally accept that she would live without her dream. -- Nora Roberts
Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do. -- Nora Roberts
Cam gave him a halfhearted boot on the top of his head with the heel of one hand. "Why don't you shut
up until I say what I have to say?"
The painless smack and impatient order were more comforting to Seth than a thousand promises. -- Nora Roberts
And she never had, Doug mused, because war and politics go for the big view and trample all over the little guy. France during the Revolution or a steamy pit of a jungle in Nam. It never changed. He knew just what it felt like to be helpless. He wasn't going to feel that way ever again. -- Nora Roberts
You don't like surprises?" "I'm fine with them." Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday. Let's get naked on the porch. Oh God. -- Nora Roberts
A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it. -- Nora Roberts
I've got me a fascinating, beautiful woman I'm falling for. Falling hard." "Quick work." "In the blood. My mama and daddy barely did more than look at each other, and that was that. -- Nora Roberts
Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step. -- Nora Roberts
She felt her heart beating in her throat when the man in the mask began to chant again. -- Nora Roberts
She hadn't known that, -- Nora Roberts
I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time. -- Nora Roberts
Some romantic you are," Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back."Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet?" "They got dropped," Diana said flatly. -- Nora Roberts
There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women. -- Nora Roberts
You're excuses are so lame they're limping... -- Nora Roberts
you can't forgive without trust, -- Nora Roberts
close to midnight. I don't want to ask -- Nora Roberts
You all right?"
Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying. -- Nora Roberts
Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty klutzes who burst into banks, guns blazing. We're discriminating. We're romantic." His voice rose in passion. "We're artists -- Nora Roberts
she'd find she liked Gabriella. -- Nora Roberts
If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it! -- Nora Roberts
She lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields. -- Nora Roberts
High. The stone around his neck flamed -- Nora Roberts
She read the Gaelic and her eyes misted. 'My heart is your heart. Ever and always. -- Nora Roberts
A kiss isn't terminal."
"It is the way you do it. -- Nora Roberts
He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives.
And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men. -- Nora Roberts
But I realize I don't want to do it alone.I want to fence you in, Brian," she murmured, framing his face with her hands. "I've been hammering at that damn fence for weeks. Ever since I realized I was in love with you. -- Nora Roberts
Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar. -- Nora Roberts
I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres. -- Nora Roberts
I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes. -- Nora Roberts
same, with Meara. It had done her spirit -- Nora Roberts
Setting her jaw, Whitney turned left. "This is a one-way street." He looked around helplessly. "Didn't you see the sign?" "I know it's a one-way street," she muttered and pressed harder on the gas. "It's also the quickest way across town." "Oh, Jesus. -- Nora Roberts
She glanced down to where Seth's fingers were still curled around her arm. "Are you testing my biceps, Lieutenant? I do like to think they're firm."
"Your muscle tone's fine." From what he could see of her in the filmy ivory slacks, it appeared more than fine. -- Nora Roberts
He can't face you on an adult level, so he comes along and fucks up your truck. Classic payback method for the tiny-dick type. -- Nora Roberts
You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat. -- Nora Roberts
It wasn't the paramedics or the surgical team that saved my life. It was Ray and Stella Quinn. -- Nora Roberts
Begging your pardon, princess. Did I neglect to pull my forelock?"
She held up a hand.Her temper was a vile thing when loose, and the drumming in her head warned her it was very close to springing free.
"I'm already annoyed.It won't take much to push me to furious. -- Nora Roberts
I mean, I'll have everything I want here when you are. So, yes, absolutely yes. -- Nora Roberts
I don't think you ever learn everything about anyone, no matter how long you know them, or how well. There's always another pocket somewhere. -- Nora Roberts
Coming from something doesn't make it what you are. -- Nora Roberts
At the counter, she winced at what the poking cost -- Nora Roberts
If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her. -- Nora Roberts
You're going to find I'm not the kind who'll always give you what you want. You can fight me, sometimes you might even win. But you won't stop me. -- Nora Roberts
She'd thought a gun would fit easily into his hand, the way a gun did for a man who hung out in dim bars and smoky hotel rooms. But it didn't fit easily. It didn't fit at all. -- Nora Roberts
If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are. -- Nora Roberts
Witches, he thought. Always rhyming. -- Nora Roberts
I don't need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, says
more. Means more."
He took the hand she held out to him. "We'll go down. James should be here soon -- Nora Roberts
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. -- Nora Roberts
Plus it's just embarrassing when someone - oops.'
She pressed a hand to her side, and had the blood draining out of Harper's face.
'What? What?'
'Nothing. baby's moving around. Sometimes it gives me a jolt is all.'
'You should stand up. You should sit down. -- Nora Roberts
it was life and death. Both you and Sawyer brought guns, but you didn't tell the rest of us." Sawyer shifted. "Shit. Combat knife, too." Riley pulled a wicked blade out of her boot. "Throwing knife." "Which only -- Nora Roberts
school graduation. I love him, even though the times - a lot of times I really needed it - he couldn't say, 'I'm here. -- Nora Roberts
She hadn't thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood. But she hadn't counted on despair. Somehow despair always made room for itself. -- Nora Roberts
The purest magic is in the heart..... -- Nora Roberts
I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us. -- Nora Roberts
Ut she didn't understand and couldn't accept using that unhappiness as an excuse or rationale for being unfaithful. why didn't people just end it? if they wanted someone else, or something else, why not break it off clean first instead of cheating, lying, tolerating, just existing? -- Nora Roberts
Circumstances change. Bend or break... -- Nora Roberts
You've got to take a test? I love tests." His eyes actually lit up. "Do you need a study buddy? And yes, I capitalize the N in nerd. -- Nora Roberts
You should appreciate those things while you have them, but you never do. Not all the way. Too busy living. Now and again, you should try to stop to appreciate the little things. They'll build up if you do. -- Nora Roberts
And his pale skin showed signs of sunburn. -- Nora Roberts
Bet it was some ride." Theo manfully swallowed the prickly lump in his throat. There was a
jittering inside his chest that came as much from seeing his father break apart as from anxiety over
Maddy. "I'll haul her in, Dad. You're going to wreck your arm -- Nora Roberts
It's the heart that gets us through the hard times, and gives us joy. -- Nora Roberts
Avery McTavish - The Last Boyfriend
Insanity ... She knew how to organize and stay that way. But it seemed to her all her organization skills arrowed toward work and missed her life by a mile. -- Nora Roberts
I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical. -- Nora Roberts
The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that. -- Nora Roberts
He turned his head, kissed the top of her head. "I love you."
"It sounds lovely in bed, in the dark, when everything's quiet."
"Because it's true. And it'll be true in the morning. -- Nora Roberts
I am not glowy." Laurel simply turned Parker by the shoulders to the big foyer mirror. "You were saying?" Maybe color did glow in her cheeks, and maybe her eyes were a little dazzled, but . . . "That's irritation." "I won't say 'liar, liar,' but, Parks, under that skirt, your pants are on fire. -- Nora Roberts
-If you were a girl,Jack said to Dell, I'd marry you.
-No. You'd just have sex with me then never call me. -- Nora Roberts
Thank you! We carry local artists and artisans. There are so many -- Nora Roberts
He heard a woman call out for her children in the flat accent that said States to him, East Coast, North. And seemed so out of place here. Did his voice have that same slightly-out-of-tune sound to it? Here voices should lilt and flow and have old music under each word. -- Nora Roberts
She saw him pause to watch it, going still with his hand on a stem and his other holding a seed head. And she wished she could paint. All those vivid colors of late summer, bold and strong, and the man so still, so patient, dropping his work to share his flowers with a bird. -- Nora Roberts
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing. -- Nora Roberts
Seduce my mind and you can have my body, Find my soul and I'm yours forever. - ANONYMOUS -- Nora Roberts
Lew? Not that I don't appreciate it, but it -- Nora Roberts
With the hug. It's so good to see you. We've got pitchers of tea outside, and plenty of beer. And four bottles of champagne - your mama -- Nora Roberts
Hard isn't hard if you've got a strong back and a purpose. -- Nora Roberts
Women, they don't know what they're missing when it comes when it comes to the courageous comedy of the Three Stooges."
"Yes, yes, we do know what we're missing. We miss it on purpose."
Conversation between Flynn and Mallory in The Key of Light -- Nora Roberts
Sometimes people say I think too much. Maybe it's true. If it is, it's because I feel too much. -- Nora Roberts
This'll do it. Can you see Tereza and Maddy over there getting pedicures and arguing."
"Mmm," Sophia mused. "They disagree about the name for the beauty products we don't even have
yet. I don't know if it's Maddy or the concept, but it's boosted Nonna's morale. -- Nora Roberts
I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked."
"I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed. -- Nora Roberts
You want the truth? I liked it. It's good for the ego for a man to have a woman cry over him. -- Nora Roberts
theres only a little bit of that boy i got stuck with all those years ago left in there nick and its the best part -- Nora Roberts
If you take your time about things, you end up with the best at the end of the day." He buried his face in her hair, wanting the scent and the texture. "Now, I've got the best. Good, solid stoneware. -- Nora Roberts
She hadn't felt the click often enough in her life to take it for granted. And when it was so obviously echoed in the man who caused it ... that was something to think about. -- Nora Roberts
A woman could always count on her girl pals, Hope thought as she turned to the door. They never let you down. -- Nora Roberts
Occurred to him he wouldn't have to argue with himself the -- Nora Roberts
Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities. -- Nora Roberts
Of you, you're mine, and that's a gift I'll always treasure. Every one of you is a gift to me, a blend of friends and family that's stronger and truer and brighter than anything I ever imagined having. So, to all of us, together. -- Nora Roberts
There's just no love like the love of a mother for a child, no matter how that child comes into their life, and no loss or grief to match it. -- Nora Roberts
I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware. -- Nora Roberts
You're the woman in my life," he said. "Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way. -- Nora Roberts
It's a pretty big deal, not being dead, and I wanted to stay that way. -- Nora Roberts
note that Sebastian's were now bright with -- Nora Roberts
Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful. -- Nora Roberts
against his. No force of will could make his -- Nora Roberts
When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way. -- Nora Roberts
Feelings need to be expressed, Hope. They aren't always understood the way people like to assume. -- Nora Roberts
When you could dissect something and find all the answers, you could find all the wrong ones -- Nora Roberts
Survivors lived with their mistakes. -- Nora Roberts
Well, Ms. Fontaine, you look damn good for a dead woman."
Her response was to narrow her eyes, arch a brow. "If that's some sort of cop humor, I'm afraid you'll have to translate. -- Nora Roberts
You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all. -- Nora Roberts
He stayed nearly an hour. Clare would have kissed him again just for the fact he'd given her kids such a great time. He'd never seemed bored or annoyed with a conversation dominated by superheroes, their powers, their partners, their foes. -- Nora Roberts
I don't get treadmills. You get all sweaty and go nowhere. Now, sex? You get all sweaty and go everywhere. -- Nora Roberts
It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges. -- Nora Roberts
Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true. -- Nora Roberts
We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else. -- Nora Roberts
Kate studied the clipboard and the pocket calculator on the floor.
"Did you figure out how to work that thing?"
"You don't have to be a CPA to use a calculator."
"I meant the clipboard."
"Ha ha. -- Nora Roberts
You did that on purpose."
"Did what on purpose?"
"Wore the don't-touch suit and the sex goddess perfume at the same time just to drive me crazy."
"Listen to the suit, Quinn. Dream about the perfume. -- Nora Roberts
His moustache was a masterpiece. -- Nora Roberts
I'm not after romance. It's the sort of thing that weakens resolve and clouds sense. -- 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
not wrong," he said, and took her -- 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
- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm ... A poetic gladiator. -- Nora Roberts
If you didn't let a man mean too much, you wouldn't be too hurt when he went away. But that didn't mean you had to stop living too. Even if you didn't jump off a cliff there were other ways to end life. -- Nora Roberts
Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters. -- Nora Roberts
Give them your brains, girl, never your guts. -- 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
It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act. -- Nora Roberts
If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.
(Malcolm Kavanaugh) -- Nora Roberts
Griff's taking out another wall or two at the old -- Nora Roberts
Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple? -- Nora Roberts
Cold. Winter's still got its teeth in us." "Thanks. I know it's -- Nora Roberts
Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. -- Nora Roberts
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers; Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. - ROBERT HERRICK -- Nora Roberts
Teacher and the guard. He nodded. -- Nora Roberts
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. -- Nora Roberts
Don't hate me."
"Does anybody?"
"Kevin's old high school girlfriend."
"Because she's a slut."
Jenny beamed. "I didn't realize you knew Candy. -- Nora Roberts
If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will? -- 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
He worked for two hours, perfecting the storyline-the situation, the setup, the punchline.After changing her tire and practicing macho lines to impress her, Macintosh ended up with five dollars, a stutter, and soaked shoes as Veronica zoomed out of his life. -- Nora Roberts
Don't give up on your own happy-evers. -- Nora Roberts
She put it away, locked up the turmoil that seeing, hearing, watching Arnie Meeks had made swirl inside her. No time, no place for it now. It would come back, she knew, spurting -- Nora Roberts
Stuck with a beautiful woman who knows me and wants me around anyway. For the life of me, I can't figure out what I did right. -- Nora Roberts
The need to take her was raging, some fatal drug that stabbed into his veins, speeding up his heartbeat and clouding his mind. -- Nora Roberts
Is there anything more annoying than machismo? -- Nora Roberts
Marry me, Rebecca ... You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it. -- 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
You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else. -- Nora Roberts
after cash or valuables. -- Nora Roberts
I'm a mild disappointment to them, which is worse somehow than being a serious disappointment. So I'm working hard not to be any kind of disappointment to myself. She -- Nora Roberts
Mr. Tarmack,if you try to put a jockey on this horse, I'll have you up on charges.In fact,I'm damn well having you up on charges regardless. -- Nora Roberts
I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of the life to start as soon as possible. - Harry Burns -- Nora Roberts
Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang. -- Nora Roberts
Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold. -- Nora Roberts
I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them. -- Nora Roberts
Philip ripped at the wrapper of the plain, inadequately thin Hershey bar. "No almonds."
"I don't care for nuts."
"You proved that when you slammed your foot between the legs of your friend this evening. -- Nora Roberts
Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben -- Nora Roberts
Please let me go."
"Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me. -- Nora Roberts
You're a cold bitch, Dallas."
"Yes, I am."
"Well, I suppose if I'd been murdered I'd want a cold bitch looking for my killer. -- Nora Roberts
Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know ... Head and heart ... You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other. -- Nora Roberts
No second chance?"
A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it. -- Nora Roberts
Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will. -- 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 birds don't always sing pretty tunes. -- Nora Roberts
our cabin in the woods in Clare. -- Nora Roberts
I like it,"he said at length. "You're putting a lot of yourself into this place."
"Shall I tell you just what your approval means to me?" Diana asked, not bothering to smother a yawn. -- Nora Roberts
upon that bottle you made me -- Nora Roberts
You're going to
buy him a car. He'd tell you anything you want to hear."
"See why I love you? You've got him nailed -- Nora Roberts
From this day forward, she thought, this was home. One she'd make herself, for herself. This was her life, one she'd live as she wanted. If that wasn't magick, what was? -- Nora Roberts
You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder. -- Nora Roberts
They lied to her Roz, I guess he paid them, too. They lied, but she knew. She heard the baby cry, and she KNEW. It drove her crazy. -- Nora Roberts
Love shouldn't be hard." "There I think you're wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it's not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost. -- Nora Roberts
When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing. -- Nora Roberts
Can you stand a little closer?" "Hmm?" "You smell good. I like to smell you. -- Nora Roberts
You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you. -- Nora Roberts
Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications. -- Nora Roberts
My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life. -- 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
Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself. -- Nora Roberts
I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking. -- Nora Roberts
Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured
word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet. -- Nora Roberts
People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill. -- Nora Roberts
He has a need for attention, to have attention focused on him - for better or worse. The worst punishment I can give him is to ignore him, which I've done, fairly successfully, -- Nora Roberts
It isn't easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you. -- Nora Roberts
What's she like, the Peeping Tammy?" "She doesn't think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people. -- Nora Roberts
He paused by
Theo's door, knocked with his free hand.
"Get lost, creep."
David looked down at Maddy. "I assume he means you." He -- Nora Roberts
Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go. -- Nora Roberts
Would only lead to trouble. She took a solemn -- Nora Roberts
Do you think, Sam, that even if it were only my own heart at risk, I could pour it into your hands again?"
"Then just take mine. I'm not doing anything else with it. -- Nora Roberts
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft. -- Nora Roberts
Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?"
She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door.
"You hardly ever make the jump. -- Nora Roberts
If you lived with her, you must have been in love with her.'
'No. I wanted to be in love with her. It's not the same thing at all. -- Nora Roberts
I'd have given you everything I had. If you'd needed more, I'd have found it, and given you that. It's the way I love. It's the only way I know how. -- Nora Roberts
You're a first-class bastard, Doug." This time he grinned because he'd heard the light trace of respect. "I like first class, Whitney. I'm going to live there the rest of my life. -- Nora Roberts
You're the answer before I even asked the question. -- Nora Roberts
You don't want to get in the habit of overusing the word "fuck" as an adjective. You'll miss the vast variety of its uses. -- Nora Roberts
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places. -- Nora Roberts
Tyler studied him over his coffee. "From what I've seen so far you're not much of a time-waster.
And you're not so bad, for a suit."
With a half-laugh, David lifted his own coffee. Steam from it rose and merged with the mist.
"Coming from you, that's a hell of a kudo."
"Damn right. -- Nora Roberts
All the nightmares that had ever plagued a woman alone in the dark loomed in her mind. -- Nora Roberts
Coffee, Chocolate, Men . . . Some things are just better rich. -- Nora Roberts
Annoyance ran over his face. We've crossed that point, Lila. If you want to backtrack -- Nora Roberts
He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught. -- Nora Roberts
People put too much emphasis, too many demands, on courage, and they all put their own standards on it anyway -- Nora Roberts
You don't write what you know, or you would write one thing. I never understood that. You write what you want to find out. -- Nora Roberts
I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you. -- Nora Roberts
Sweetest of nature, and very likely promises of exotic sexual favors to convince Boyle to let anyone -- Nora Roberts
I'm not your father." He cupped a hand under her chin. He saw the tears brimming, and her
valiant attempt to hold them off. "And neither are you. My being there for you, taking some of the
weight doesn't make you weak. It doesn't make you less, Sophie. -- Nora Roberts
Gennie, let me tell you something." In an uncharacteristic gesture, he stroked his knuckles gently over her cheek. "I wouldn't be here right now if I could stay away from you.Is that enough for you? -- Nora Roberts
I think this one's in the running for Ditzy Bride status. Not only does she want her MOH to walk her two Siamese cats down the aisle rather than carry a bouquet, but wants to include them on the guest list. -- 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] -- Nora Roberts
Love, even when pledged, isn't enough. -- Nora Roberts
From her hiding place in the brush, a young girl watched, her eyes wide with curiosity. There was a burning smell coming from the pit where flames crackled, sending sparks shooting high. Odd shapes had been carved in the trunks of the circling trees. The -- Nora Roberts
Welcome to my dungeon. It's not much," Linc said as he cleaned off a chair for her. "But ... it's
not much." He dumped the files and books on the floor.
"The nice thing about starting at the bottom is, you can't get any lower."
"If I'm a good boy, I'll get my own stapler -- Nora Roberts
We'll have to keep on being disappointed in each other, won't we, Ma? -- Nora Roberts
How the hell do I know what pisses a woman off? ... Nobody knows because it can be any damn thing. It's an unsolved mystery. And the next day, that any damn thing is fine, and it's some other damn thing. No man knows. -- Nora Roberts
I have to get used to it - to her, but she's put a light in him so I think I'm going to be a fan."
"You're a stand-up gal, Swede."
"If she screws him up, I'll peel the skin off her ass with a dull razor blade. -- Nora Roberts
She glanced at the papers he'd been working on. Black and white. He wouldn't see the shades of gray she saw there. The man they sought was a killer. The state of his mind, his emotions, perhaps even his soul, didn't matter to Ben. Maybe they couldn't. -- Nora Roberts
Bless her heart, she must've been drinking when she bought that dress. He -- Nora Roberts
To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. - WINSTON CHURCHILL -- Nora Roberts
It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians. -- Nora Roberts
He looks fierce and dignified at the same time. Can I pet him? -- Nora Roberts
Love can fade and die. I've seen it. It can grow and build as well. I think when it's real and meant, it can only grow bigger and stronger. -- Nora Roberts
I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word. -- Nora Roberts
The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being. -- Nora Roberts
There was no monster so fierce or so vulnerable as a man's ego. -- Nora Roberts
You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon - though I really think dragons get a bad rap - kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch. -- Nora Roberts
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. -- Nora Roberts
Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost. -- Nora Roberts
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits. -- 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." -adrianne
"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip -- Nora Roberts
Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. -- Nora Roberts
Do you always get away with the outrageous?"
"Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?"
"Don't waste your charm."
"It's all right, I have more. -- Nora Roberts
Dolls are like small dead people. -- Nora Roberts
You've good speed and agility, and endurance enough. But you've no killer in the blood, and so you'll always be bested." Iona rubbed her butt. "I never planned on killing anyone." "Plans change," Branna pointed out. "Fix those flowers now, as it's your rump that crushed them. -- Nora Roberts
Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking. -- Nora Roberts
It, if you'll trust me. She laid her -- Nora Roberts
Caught him grinning at her. Why do you purposely aggravate -- Nora Roberts
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. -- Nora Roberts
not enough might be worse than not at all -- Nora Roberts
It's never simple." Avery slid an arm around Hope's waist. "It shouldn't be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated. -- Nora Roberts
No, he didn't want to tame her any more than he wanted to tame the
land. But by God, it was time for acceptance, on both sides. -- Nora Roberts
she'd let him know just what that was -- Nora Roberts
Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you. -- Nora Roberts
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing. -- Nora Roberts
Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job. -- Nora Roberts
make a quick trip to the village. I didn't bring any protection. -- Nora Roberts
Who've you set up for me tonight?"
"Set up," Myra repeated, wrinkling her nose. "What an unromantic phrase."
"Sorry.How about-who are you planning to loose Cupid's arrow on?"
"It's still unromantic when you're smirking. -- Nora Roberts
And when you smile it can be very charming - the kind of charm a smart woman recognizes as highly dangerous. -- Nora Roberts
clothes, wrestled each -- Nora Roberts
Shane: Aren't you going to ask me where I've been, who I've been with?
Rebecca: Are you trying to hurt me?
Shane: Maybe I am. Maybe I'm trying to see if I can.
Rebecca:You can. -- Nora Roberts
You couldn't be stabbed in the back if you faced your attackers. -- Nora Roberts
Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone? -- Nora Roberts
Told you not to tell her."
"That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship."
"Build a relationship." Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. "You've been reading again."
"Blow me. -- 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
Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief. -- Nora Roberts
Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well. -- Nora Roberts
All three are terrific carpenters and cabinetmakers. -- Nora Roberts
historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights. -- Nora Roberts
You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job. -- Nora Roberts
Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent. -- Nora Roberts
It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life -- Nora Roberts
He thought back to his early twenties when he'd routinely looked for ways to meet women. He should've rented a puppy. -- Nora Roberts
swear, being in a hospital's like being in a den of vampires. They never get enough of your blood. -- Nora Roberts
Don't you fancy having one of your dresses in the Smithsonian, Shelby?"
"Your humor's always been on the odd side, Grant."
"Thanks. -- Nora Roberts
Snickers, if that's all right, then I have to get her -- Nora Roberts
You still here? Josh moved over -- Nora Roberts
What's she crying for now?" Theo wanted to know as Pilar clung to his father and sobbed.
"Women wait until it's over before they cry, especially when it's important." Maddy studied the
way her father turned his face into Pilar's hair. "This is important -- Nora Roberts
a part in putting Cosgrove and Keegan dead center of that circle. He had some ideas, yeah, -- Nora Roberts
Old friends are the bricks and mortar of your life. -- Nora Roberts
I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them. -- Nora Roberts
Strolled around, here to see and do -- Nora Roberts
The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. ( ... ) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb. -- Nora Roberts
When I'm going up against a homicidal god, I like having a witch in my corner, -- Nora Roberts
Traveling,he thought.Yes, she was traveling-away from him just as fast as she could.Oh,you deserve it, Campbell, he berated himself. You deserve to have her skip out of your life without a backward glance. -- Nora Roberts
Shelby trailed off when she spotted the goldfish swimming in circles inside the Waterford. "Well, he's come up in the world," she said with a jerky laugh. "I don't think he appreciates it. -- Nora Roberts
And sooner or later, I'll make her pay for it."
"And I'll hold your coat. In the meantime, go to bed -- Nora Roberts
Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it. -- Nora Roberts
Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished. -- Nora Roberts
Taking love is easy - giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway. -- Nora Roberts
He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement. -- Nora Roberts
Anything worth anything can be found in books. -- Nora Roberts
The air scored his throat on each breath like crushed glass. -- Nora Roberts
Oh,right.Like he's been in a monestary copying scripture for the last ten years." Kate squared her shoulders, her feminist flag waving high. "It's none of his damn business if you've taken on the Fifth,Six,and Seventh fleets. -- Nora Roberts
Life's a gift. It doesn't always fit comfortably, but it's precious. I wouldn't have hurt you and your brothers by throwing mine away. -- Nora Roberts
a man who could tell that terrible lie, live with that terrible lie, had something missing inside him. -- Nora Roberts
Kissing Red must've killed off some of your brain cells," Ryder decided. "You can tell a woman what to do
if you play it right
and maybe, maybe half the time she'd do it, or something close to it. That's a live woman. A dead one? I figure that's closer to zero. -- Nora Roberts
Because he's not some perfect fantasy. He's flawed and you understand that. It means you've fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be. -- Nora Roberts
Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them. -- Nora Roberts
You belong with us," he said quietly. "Nothing's going to change that. -- Nora Roberts
She'd never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn't separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control. -- Nora Roberts
There." She tossed her hair back while he stared at her. "The sky did not fall, the world did not end, neither of us was struck by lightning or beamed straight to hell. I'm not your damn
sister, Delaney. That ought to make it clear. -- Nora Roberts
It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson. But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful. -- Nora Roberts
She called on Hecate, on Brighid, on Morrigan and Babd Catha, summoning the strength and power of the goddesses. -- Nora Roberts
We all look. The lucky find. -- Nora Roberts
I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room - "
"Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP, go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope. -- Nora Roberts
Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it. -- Nora Roberts
Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula. -- Nora Roberts
Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is. -- Nora Roberts
Don't worry." ... "We are right behind you."
"Notice," Lilah added with a smile, "the direction is behind. -- Nora Roberts
And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain. -- Nora Roberts
They wouldn't grow up together, but could grow old together. They -- Nora Roberts
I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want. -- Nora Roberts
Only the young think they know anything about wisdom. -- Nora Roberts
How about a midnight swim?"
"Swim?" On a sigh,Shelby closed her eyes and let the sensations take her. "I didn't bring a suit."
"Good." Alan led her down the hall to two large double doors. After pulling them open, he nudged Shelby inside, then closed and locked the doors behind them. -- Nora Roberts
It was always reassuring to find that something loved hasn't changed. -- Nora Roberts
If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well. -- Nora Roberts
He wouldn't just be facing her, he thought with genuine, back-sweating fear, but all of them. The four of them, with Mrs. Grady for backup.
They'd roast his balls. -- Nora Roberts
Don't mix up who I am and what I am," she told him quietly. "You have to be honest with me, or the rest of it means nothing. -- Nora Roberts
Mac has a sexy breakfast story." "Really?" Eyebrows lifted, Parker set the syrup and butter on the table of the breakfast nook. "Tell all." "It began, and sexy tales often do, when I spilled Diet Coke on my shirt. -- Nora Roberts
When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There's nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again. -- Nora Roberts
You didn't hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won't hurt. -- Nora Roberts
Then maybe you'll help me convince Mr. MacGregor that I should paint his house."
"Just watch how you have to twist his arm," Serena said dryly. -- Nora Roberts
The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man. -- Nora Roberts
Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love. -- Nora Roberts
Always knock a wall down, and build a nice walk out of it. -- Nora Roberts
She's everything I'm not. I'm comfortable with who I am, what I am, but when you come up against someone like that, it's a kick-in-the-butt reminder of what you're never going to be, never going to have. I don't like feeling inadequate or stupid. -- Nora Roberts
Your gaydar can't leap over buildings in a single bound like Superman."
"He's wearing a thong. Enough said."
"It's for ease of movement."
"Thong," Lila repeated. -- Nora Roberts
As
calmly as she could, she turned away from the cop who was interviewing her and walked toward him.
He grabbed her fast enough, hard enough to knock the breath out of her. Nothing had ever felt so
safe. "I was hoping you'd come. I was really hoping."
"Did you get banged up any? -- Nora Roberts
Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating."
"Park benches are irritating to you in some moods."
"Depends on whether or not I want to sit down. -- Nora Roberts
She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand. -- Nora Roberts
There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball. -- Nora Roberts
He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?" "Beaver," Peter told him. "I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that. -- Nora Roberts
People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way. -- 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
You'll stay, won't you?" Maddy asked Pilar.
"Yes, if you want."
"I think you should stay." Since Theo had grabbed the bags, she clomped off after him in her funky
new shoes. -- 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
Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks
For many, even the scars healed and they loved again. -- Nora Roberts
Not bad," he decided.
"I'm overwhelmed by your flattery. -- Nora Roberts
In my world, the self-righteous are often the ones sneaking around getting blow jobs before they go home to the wives and kiddies. -- Nora Roberts
When you swallow that pride, Eve, take care you don't choke on it. -- Nora Roberts
She needs me. She needs someone who understands and appreciates who she is, and who she's decided to be. And I need her, because who she is, and who she's decided to be are - big surprise to me - what I've been waiting for all my life. -- Nora Roberts
To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle. -- Nora Roberts
The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all. -- Nora Roberts
You look great, Senator.I think I could get used to seeing you wet and naked." Lazily she dipped back to float. "If you ever decide to ditch politics, I imagine you could have a successful career as a lifeguard at a nude beach."
"It's always good to have something to fall back on. -- Nora Roberts
Redhead, built in a way made you sure God's a man." "It didn't work out between you?" "For a while it did. She wasn't shy about using what she had. She wasn't shy about anything," Doyle added with a grin. -- Nora Roberts
Checkered past. I know about these jewels the same way I -- Nora Roberts
Are you a witch bigot? -- Nora Roberts
Like he cared about a lot of stupid settlers and Indians and soldiers who hung around out here before he was even born. Hell, before his prehistoric grandparents had been born.
Who gave a shit about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bullshit. He cared about X-Men and the box scores. -- Nora Roberts
What are you, twelve?" "The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man." "Irish -- Nora Roberts
Well, I'd find sleeping with you a pleasant thing, but I'd prefer making love with you a few dozen times first. -- Nora Roberts
I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career. -- Nora Roberts
with his partner. Griff's out of Baltimore, too. -- Nora Roberts
I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again. -- Nora Roberts
Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work. -- Nora Roberts
I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans. -- Nora Roberts
In today's climate no one wants imperfection in their leaders. Once a flaw is dug out, as the press is hell-bent to do, it's maximized and twisted until it becomes a bigger issue than a man's record. -- Nora Roberts
Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward. -- Nora Roberts
She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work. -- Nora Roberts
Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain. -- Nora Roberts
What is technology? ... It's another god. -- Nora Roberts
And she'd fallen in love.
It couldn't be that fast. It couldn't be that simple. It couldn't be.
But it was. She didn't have to have felt it all before to know what tripped and stumbled inside her.
She breathed in, breathed out, took a good glug of wine. -- Nora Roberts