Nora Roberts Quotes

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Anything worth anything can be found in books.

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

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

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

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

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

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.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

People in hell want snowcones.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

[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.

Survivors lived with their mistakes.

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.

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

Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. --Prince Carrick

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

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.

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it?

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

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.

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.

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.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

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.

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.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.

Love meant different things to different people.

What did she say?" Eve asked when they got into the car. "Here's love, she said, to hold until next we meet and I give you more.

"It doesn't matter how long it takes." She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. "It's how long it lasts."

I don't let myself believe in writer's block. I feel very strongly writing is habit as much as an art or a craft. And if you write crap, you're still writing.

Why are you always smiling? What do you know?

It's about us. It's about trust.

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.

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.

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

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

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.

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.

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

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.