Nora Roberts Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

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

Source: Heaven and Earth

“So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again?
What makes you think i ever stopped?”

Source: Black Hills

“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.”

Source: Hidden Riches

“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)”

Source: Bed of Roses

Nora Roberts Quotes about love

“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: Happy Ever After

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

Source: Sweet Revenge

“Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it”

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

Source: Bed of Roses

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

Source: Vision in White

“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 Quotes about life

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

Source: Rising Tides

“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.”

“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: Vision in White

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

Source: Genuine Lies

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

Source: Vision in White

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

Source: Bed of Roses

Nora Roberts: Trending quotes

“Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.”

Source: Valley of Silence

“You have to believe in it to get it…”

Source: Tears of the Moon

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

Source: Heart of the Sea

Nora Roberts Quotes

“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.”

Source: Happy Ever After

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

Source: Face the Fire

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

Source: Black Rose

“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.”

Source: Midnight Bayou

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

Source: Northern Lights

“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.”

“The wounded recognized the wounded.”

“People and relationships never stop being a work in progress”

Source: Rising Tides

“The polite thing would be to go back inside, give you privacy when you read it. But, I’m just not that mature.'
'It’s nothing. Fine.' Feeling foolish, Laurel opened the envelope.”

Source: Vision in White

“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.”

Source: Savor the Moment

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

Source: Valley of Silence

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

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

Variant: You can fix anything but a blank page.

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

Source: The Hollow

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

Source: Genuine Lies

“Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.”

Source: Blood Brothers

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

Source: Morrigan's Cross

“[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.”

“If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.”

Source: Chasing Fire

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

Source: The Search

“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: Carnal Innocence

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

Source: Key of Light

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

Source: Vision in White

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

Source: The Witness

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

Source: The MacGregors: Serena & Caine

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

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

Source: Genuine Lies

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

Source: The Pagan Stone

“It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.”

Source: Morrigan's Cross

“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.”

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

“People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.”

“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.”

Source: Honest Illusions

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

Source: The Perfect Hope

“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.”

Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

“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.”

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

Source: Bed of Roses

“Good fiction creates its own reality.”

Source: Born in Fire

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

Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

“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.”

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

Source: Tears of the Moon

“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.”

Source: Morrigan's Cross

“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.”

“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”

Source: The Calhouns: Suzanna & Megan

“You can't edit a blank page”

Source: The Search

“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.”

“A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.”

Source: Daring to Dream

“We all look. The lucky find.”

Source: Face the Fire

“Men didn't respect beauty… they used it.”

Source: Heart of the Sea