Nora Roberts Quotes

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.

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

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.

"Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?" "Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see."

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.

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen

I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it.

Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything?" "Catchy title. I may use it one day.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

He shook his head and eyed Roarke. "You don't look like a cop." "I'm not and thank you for noticing.

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

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

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

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

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.

I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death

The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Eve, we're going to be married in a few days." The jittering started again, big time. "Yeah." "If he keeps looking at you like that, I'm going to have to hurt him.

If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.

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.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

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.

Tell him I took the cat

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

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.

You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.

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.

Don't worry."... "We are right behind you." "Notice," Lilah added with a smile, "the direction is behind.

Have McNab take the edge if you need one. Can he handle bad cop?" "He does it really well during personal role-playing games when I'm the reluctant witness.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

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.

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

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

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.

I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.