Nora Roberts Quotes:

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2006). “Morrigan's Cross”, p.259, Penguin

Topics: Want, What You Want, Values

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2002). “Midnight Bayou”, p.120, Penguin

Topics: Feelings, Too Much, Hell

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.221, Penguin

Topics: Party, Tragedy

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

source: - Nora Roberts (2009). “Vision In White”, p.203, Penguin

Topics: People, Progress, Work In Progress, Interpersonal Relationship, Permanence

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

source: - Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

Topics: Motivation, Steps, Steps Forward, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

source: - Nora Roberts (2003). “Three Fates”, p.257, Penguin

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

source: - Nora Roberts (2010). “Nora Roberts' Circle Trilogy”, p.1034, Penguin

Topics: Destiny, Choices, Turns

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Topics: Wounded, Woundedness, Sameness

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

source: - Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

Topics: Confidence, Business, Answers, Inspirational Student, Inspire Students

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “Charmed: The Donovan Legacy”, p.13, Penguin

Topics: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Wildflowers, Magic Of Life

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

Topics: Jobs, Writing, Making Time

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.

Topics: Motivation, Character, Writing

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2009). “Black Hills”, p.296, Penguin

Topics: Hurt, Kings, Heart

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.

Topics: Dark, Light, Evil

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

source: - Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

Topics: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Going To College, Inspire Students

You can't edit a blank page

Topics: Pages, Blank Pages, Blank, Edits

Good fiction creates its own reality.

Topics: Reality, Fiction

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

Topics: Real, Hero, Men, Real Women, Heroes And Heroines

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.

Topics: Reading, Relax, World

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.

Topics: Strong, Real, Age

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

Topics: Light, Littles, Sun

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.

Topics: Summer, School, Vacation, Summer Vacation, Saturday Morning

I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.

Topics: Hands, Saws, I Loved You

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

Topics: Today, Favors, Tomorrow

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

Topics: Dry, Tomorrow

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.

Topics: Games, Littles, Flawed

We all look. The lucky find.

Topics: Lucky, Looks

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

Topics: Dream, Rock And Roll, Play

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

Topics: Love Is, Rocks, Enough

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

Topics: Writing, Pages, Blank, Blank Pages

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Topics: Book, Effort, Slacking

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2000). “Heart of the Sea”, p.86, Penguin

Topics: Believe

You can fix anything but a blank page.

Topics: Writing, Pages, Blank, Blank Pages

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Topics: Important, Made

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

Topics: Inspirational, Dog, Pet, Love My Dog, Dog Love

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.

Topics: Giving Up, Giving

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Topics: Writing, Thinking, Stories

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.

Topics: People, Long, Way

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Topics: Men, Boys, Good Man, Good Boy

I need to write to be happy.

Topics: Writing, Needs

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

Topics: Fall, Stories, Pleasure

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Topics: Life Is Like, Wonderful, Moustache

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.

Topics: Men, Ideas, Two

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

Topics: Breakfast, Woman Worth

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

Topics: Romance, Lips, Eve Dallas

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

Topics: Oatmeal, Cookies, Reason, Oatmeal Cookies

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

Topics: Queens, Heart, Romance

God is dead and I am his replacement.

Topics: Replacements, God Is Dead

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.

Topics: Next, Conversation, Working It

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

Topics: Bird, Tunes, Love Bird

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.

Topics: White, Guy, Black

Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.

Topics: Screw You, Screws

I want to see you again." He stopped, took her face in his hands. "I need to see you again." Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. "Roarke, what's going on here?" "Lieutenant." He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. "indications are we're having a romance.

Topics: Hands, Romance, Want, Want To See You, Eve Dallas

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

Topics: Mean, Fate, Blood

What other thing, Eve?" "I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.

Topics: Hurt, Love You, Tired

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.371, Penguin

Topics: Money, Shops

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.

Topics: Lying, Naked, Tourists, Dakota, South Dakota

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

Topics: Light, Tree, World, Christmas Tree

Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.

Topics: Risk, Care, Emotion, Beth

You--Roarke." Eyes watering, she reached for more tissue. "Jesus, Eve. Jesus Christ, you never sleep with anybody. And you're telling me you slept with Roarke?" "That's not precisely accurate. We didn't sleep.

Topics: Jesus, Sleep, Eye, Eve Dallas, Never Sleep

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

Topics: Stupidity, Typical, Males

It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel." "Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.

Topics: Lasers, Asparagus, Bathroom, Meaning Something, Ketchup

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.

Topics: Perfect

The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies?" "Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.

Topics: People, Barbie, Dolls, Dead People, Barbie Dolls

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

Topics: Running, Suits, Doe

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

Topics: Grief, Giving, Special

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.

Topics: Hurt, Might, Sometimes

Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.

Topics: May, Causes, Machines, Vending Machines

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

Topics: Men, Used

Dolls are like small dead people.

Topics: People, Dead People

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

Topics: Steps, Joints, Step Up

Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.

Topics: Thinking, Hands, Nebraska, Soy

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.

Topics: Morning, Thinking, Jumping

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

Topics: Falling In Love, Years, Found

Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. “Hello, gorgeous.” She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. “Hey, handsome.

Topics: Hurt, Couple, Climbing, Gulls

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.

Topics: Disappointment, Taken, Blow

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

Topics: Gone, Sickness

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Believe, Together

I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?" "Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

Topics: Fall, Worry, Done

Oh thank you, Jesus." "It's Roarke." He tapped a finger on Eve's head. "You really shouldn't forget your own husband's name.

Topics: Jesus, Husband, Names

You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.

Topics: Praying, Diana, Deep Breath

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.

Topics: Block, Home, Fate, Handy

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Morning, Waste

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.

Topics: Feet, Doors, Said

I'll walk you back,"he said with such apparently boundless amiability that Diana wanted to deck him. "That isn't necessary," she began as her hand was clasped by his. "I suppose I could walk ten paces behind or ten paces in front." As she let out a frustrated breath, Caine grinned down at her. "You're not angry because we exchanged a friendly kiss? After all, we're family." "There was nothing friendly or familial about it," Diana muttered. "No," he lifted her hand to his lips, then lightly nipped at her knuckle. "Maybe we should try again.

Topics: Kissing, Hands, Frustrated

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.

Topics: Ego, Heavy, Justin

Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.

Topics: Butterfly, Thinking, Giving, Minefields

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Topics: Memories, Nice, Play

Things have a way of falling into place.

Topics: Fall, Way

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

Topics: Mother, Fighting, Clothes

...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

Topics: Past, Lust, Gone

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.

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

Topics: Book, Waiting, Twenties

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?

Topics: Cooking, Kitchen, Dinner, Regan

What was your secret?" That brought another smile. "Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance

Topics: Laughing, Secret, Hammers

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

Topics: Holiday, Home, Cities

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.

Topics: Beach, Car, Belts, Seat Belts

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

Topics: Sitting, Tables, Dinner, Spatulas

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

Topics: Strong Women, Arms, Needs, Whitney

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.

Topics: War, Alaska, Volcanoes

Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.

Topics: Matter, Found, Shakes

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

Topics: Toads

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Topics: Character, World, Mark

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Topics: Fate, Together, Way

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.

Topics: Bears, Naked, Pleasant

It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner than later, in my opinion, the right woman can and should be leader of the free world. But you can't understand the male bonding rituals any more than men can understand why the vast majority of women are obsessed with shoes and other footwear.

Topics: Believe, Men, Equal Pay, Footwear

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

Topics: Doors, Rooms, Sometimes

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

Topics: Ribs, Tough, Inspirational Office, Libraries And Librarians, Getting Through Hard Times

Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb." "Aplomb" "It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination." "That also sounded polite." "I was raised well.

Topics: Brother, Tangled, Too Much, Dexterity

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

Topics: Fearless, Young, Miraculous

You're going to blow his socks off!

Topics: Blow, Sock

What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.

Topics: Brother, Technology, Next

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

Topics: Fire, What If, Window

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

Topics: Wise, Normal, Stomach

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

source: - Nora Roberts (1995). “Hidden Riches”, p.9, Penguin

Topics: Past, Pretending

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

Topics: Believe, Risk, Happy Endings

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy”, p.347, Penguin

Topics: Effort, Risk, Victory

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Topics: Long, Want, Life Is

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

source: - Nora Roberts (2006). “Angels Fall”, p.118, Penguin

Topics: Glasses, Differences, Doe, Half Empty, Half Full

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.309, Penguin

Topics: Luck, Bad Luck, Determine

There are no dead ends, just detours.

source: - Nora Roberts, J. D. Robb (2010). “Remember When: In Death Novella”, p.197, Hachette UK

Topics: Detours, Dead Ends, Ends

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.442, Penguin

Topics: Heart, People, Broken

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.411, Penguin

Topics: Love, Inspirational, Life, Happy Love, Magical Places

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “Megan's Mate: The Calhouns”, p.80, Penguin

Topics: Blow, Wind, Interesting, Interesting Places

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2016). “Nora Roberts The Stanislaskis Series Books 4-6: Convincing Alex\Waiting for Nick\Considering Kate”, p.477, Harlequin

Topics: Courage, Heart, Together

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “Partners”, p.94, Penguin

Topics: Important, Victim, Deals

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.417, Penguin

Topics: Thinking, Giving, Someone You Love, Telling Someone You Love Them

Life has very little even ground.

source: - J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb THE IN DEATH COLLECTION”, p.107, Penguin

Topics: Littles

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.204, Penguin

Topics: Distance, Color, Faces

I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.

Topics: Heart, Light, Soul

Necessity is often the mother of balls

source: - Nora Roberts (2009). “Black Hills”, p.216, Penguin

Topics: Mother, Balls

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

Topics: Needs, Illusion

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.

Topics: Heart, Giving, Use, Head And Heart

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

Topics: Mean, Eliminating, Surround

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy”, p.904, Penguin

Topics: Life, Nice, Simple

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “All the Possibilities: The MacGregors”, p.94, Penguin

Topics: Worthwhile, Complication

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.

Topics: Writing, Pleasure, Wells

I hate patience. Slows everything down.

source: - "Witness in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, January 1, 2000.

Topics: Hate, I Hate

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

Topics: Half

Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.221, Penguin

Topics: Party, Tragedy, Next Steps

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

source: - Nora Roberts (2016). “Nora Roberts The Stanislaskis Series Books 4-6: Convincing Alex\Waiting for Nick\Considering Kate”, p.289, Harlequin

Topics: Being Yourself, Heart, Just Being You

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.

source: - Nora Roberts (2006). “Valley of Silence”, p.18, Penguin

Topics: Saws, Young

Life is full of circles

Topics: Circles, Life Is

I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death

Topics: Ideas, Naked, Causes

[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.

Topics: Discipline, Missing, Desire

“I'm not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? “I've been right here all along. I love you, Eve, almost more than I can stand.” “I need you. I can't help it. I don't want to.” “I know. He eased back, tucking a hand under her chin to lift her face to his. “We’re going to have to deal with it.” He kissed one wet cheek, then the other. “I really can’t do without you.“

source: - "Glory in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, December 1995.

Topics: Strong Women, Love You, Hands

The purest magic is in the heart.

Topics: Heart, Magic

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.1136, Penguin

Topics: Inspirational, Marriage, Crazy

The simple and most complex answer is love.

Topics: Simple, Answers, Complexes

When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “The Name of the Game”, p.114, Penguin

Topics: Let It Go, Way, Easy

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

source: - Nora Roberts (2010). “Hot Rocks”, p.183, Penguin

Topics: Eggs, Break, Baskets, Eggs In One Basket, Scrambled Eggs

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts's The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy”, p.550, Penguin

Topics: Love You, Heart, Years

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “Irish Rebel: Irish Legacy”, p.123, Penguin

Topics: Steps

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Light”, p.123, Penguin

Topics: Doors, Hands, Looks, Hurrying

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

source: - J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.134, Penguin

Topics: Beautiful, Alive, Want, You Re So Beautiful

You got used to running things on your own." "What could he do about it when he's in Iraq and the car breaks down in Kansas?" Beckett gave her a long, quiet look. "I'm not in Iraq." "No, and it has to be said, I'm not in Kansas anymore." She lifted her hands, then let them fall. "It's not that I've forgotten how to be a couple, but that my experience in being part of one is different from yours. Maybe from most people's. And I've been on my own a long time." "Now you're not. I'm not fighting a war, and I'm right here." Needed to be here, he realized, with her.

Topics: Running, Couple, War, Beckett

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.227, Bantam

Topics: Regret, Want, Waste

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them?

Topics: People, Knows

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “Summer Love: (InterMix)”, p.117, Penguin

Topics: Matter, Never Take Anything For Granted, Granted

Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Three Sisters Island Trilogy”, p.338, Penguin

Topics: Heart, Hands, Magic

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.

Topics: Different, Tools, Literature

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.

Topics: Running, Retirement, Memories

You're the love of my life. I don't care how corny that sounds. You're the start of it, and the end of it. And you're the best of it.

Topics: Love Of My Life, Sound, Care, You Re The Best

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2009). “Sweet Revenge”, p.355, Bantam

Topics: Want, Needs, Twins, Needs And Wants

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

source: - Nora Roberts (2015). “Genuine Lies”, p.257, Hachette UK

Topics: Mistake, Survivor

Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.

source: - Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.150, Bantam

Topics: Girl, Giving, Brain

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.

source: - Nora Roberts (2015). “Lessons Learned”, p.24, Harlequin

Topics: Special, Ordinary, Ifs

Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

Topics: Sex, Love Is, Faces

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

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' The Irish Born Trilogy”, p.19, Penguin

Topics: Romance, Lovely, Tears

If sex is dignified it's not being done right.

Topics: Sex, Done, Being Done

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

Topics: Bumps, World, Sides, Potholes

Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.396, Penguin

Topics: Women, Two, House

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.

Topics: Thinking, Land, Waiting

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Next Always”, p.195, Penguin

Topics: Brother, Looks, Way

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

Topics: Suffering

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

Topics: Bed, Poetic, Poet, Hmmm

- "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl world in my head, where I go when I'm annoyed with Carter, or just men in general. There are five shoe stores per capita, nothing has any calories, and all the books and movies end happy ever after." - "I like Amazonia. When do we leave?

source: - Nora Roberts (2010). “Happy Ever After”, p.211, Penguin

Topics: Girl, Moving, Book, Happy Ever After

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.581, Penguin

Topics: Fall, Bridges, Sides

... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

source: - Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.292, Bantam

Topics: Beautiful, Men, Changed

i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke

Topics: Regret, Thinking, Space

[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

Topics: Love You, Your Side, Screw Ups

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

source: - Nora Roberts (2001). “Heaven and Earth”, p.341, Penguin

Topics: Cards You're Dealt, Play, Mia

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.475, Penguin

Topics: Love, Real, Want Something, If You Love Someone, Important Things In Your Life

It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

Topics: Exceptional, Wells, Knows

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

Topics: Romance, Heaven, Sake

You have heard the expression 'love is blind'" "I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before

Topics: Love Is, Thinking, Expression

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.713, Penguin

Topics: Lame, Excuse, Limping

Winning can be addictive

source: - "Mo Farah: 'My secret skill is making animal noises" by Mark Bailey, www.theguardian.com. December 21, 2013.

Topics: Winning

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

Topics: Irritation, People, Entertainment

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts's The Gallaghers of Ardmore Trilogy”, p.517, Penguin

Topics: Fool, Ifs

If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.

source: - Nora Roberts (2010). “River's End”, p.279, Hachette UK

Topics: Coffee, Ifs

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Fall of Shane MacKade: The MacKade Brothers, Book Four”, p.102, Silhouette

Topics: Goodbye, Kissing, Boys

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2013). “Dark Witch”, p.196, Penguin

Topics: Believe, Connections, Wonder

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

Topics: Long, Typical, Literature

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2012). “Captivated: The Donovan Legacy”, p.36, Penguin

Topics: Doors, Needs, Stories

He handed her her cap and sunglasses, then put on his own while she frowned at them. “What is this?” “A disguise.” He grinned at her. “Dobie wants you to wear them. Let’s give him a break, or he might order fake mustaches and clown noses off the Internet.” She rolled her eyes, but put them on. “And what, this makes us look like twins? Where are your tits?” “You’re wearing them, and may I say they look spectacular on you.”' - Chasing Fire

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “Chasing Fire”, p.332, Penguin

Topics: Eye, Fire, Order

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (1996). “Daring to Dream”, p.138, Penguin

Topics: Eye, Swimming, Blue, Blue Eyes

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

source: - Nora Roberts (1996). “Daring to Dream”, p.72, Penguin

Topics: Men, Friendly, Knees, Earrings

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.

source: - Nora Roberts (2011). “The Art of Deception”, p.228, Harlequin

Topics: Inspirational, Success, Choices