Nora Roberts quotes

„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.“

—  Nora Roberts

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

—  Nora Roberts

Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.

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

—  Nora Roberts, Vision in White

Source: Vision in White

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

—  Nora Roberts

Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

„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

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

—  Nora Roberts

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

—  Nora Roberts

Source: Happy Ever After

„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

Source: Face the Fire

„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, book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

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

—  Nora Roberts

Source: Born in Fire

„Good fiction creates its own reality.“

—  Nora Roberts

Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

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

—  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

Source: Tears of the Moon

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

—  Nora Roberts

Source: Black Rose

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

—  Nora Roberts

Source: Morrigan's Cross

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

—  Nora Roberts

Source: Midnight Bayou

„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

Source: Northern Lights

„We make destiny with every turn, every choice.“

—  Nora Roberts

Source: Valley of Silence

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

—  Nora Roberts