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Nora Roberts is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty.

Nora Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. As of 2011, her novels had spent a combined 861 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, including 176 weeks in the number-one spot. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. October 1950
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Nora Roberts Quotes

“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.”

Nora Roberts

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Tribute

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Angels Fall

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

Nora Roberts

“it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne

"It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip”

Nora Roberts

Source: Sweet Revenge

“My boyfriend and I are badasses.”

Nora Roberts

Source: The Pagan Stone

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Bride Quartet Boxed Set

“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Born in Fire

“I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford."
Me and Shrek, we're onions.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Tribute

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

Nora Roberts

“squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Happy Ever After

“She heard music. Angels singing? she thought, dizzy. It seemed odd for angels to sing after table sex. She managed to swallow on a throat wildly dry. "Music," she murmured.

"My phone. In my pants. Don't care."

"Oh. Not angels."

"No. Def Leppard.”

Nora Roberts

Source: The Search

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Morrigan's Cross

“If you were a girl, Jack said to Dell, I'd marry you.
-No. You'd just have sex with me then never call me.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

“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.”

Nora Roberts

“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”

Nora Roberts

Source: The Heart of Devin MacKade

“Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.”

Nora Roberts

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

Nora Roberts

Source: The Next Always

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Honest Illusions

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Valley of Silence

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Key of Knowledge

“You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.”

Nora Roberts

“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.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Daring to Dream

“Oh, go to hell." But there wasn't any heat in the response.
"You're not supposed to smile when you say that.”

Nora Roberts book Carolina Moon

Source: Carolina Moon

“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Chasing Fire

“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.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Enchanted

“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.”

Nora Roberts

Source: The Calhouns: Catherine, Amanda and Lilah

“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.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Chasing Fire

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Jewels of the Sun

“She wants to learn how to handle a gun.

Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.”

Nora Roberts

Source: The Witness

“Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow”

Nora Roberts

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

Nora Roberts

Source: High Noon

“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

Nora Roberts

Source: Heart of the Sea

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Genuine Lies

“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.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

“There.” She tossed her hair back while he stared at her. “The sky did not fall, the world did not end, neither of us was struck by lightning or beamed straight to hell. I’m not your damn
sister, Delaney. That ought to make it clear.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Savor the Moment

“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.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Angels Fall

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Genuine Lies

“He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.”

Nora Roberts

Source: The Search

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Genuine Lies

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

Nora Roberts

Source: Blue Smoke

“Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.”

Nora Roberts

Source: Daring to Dream

“Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.”

Nora Roberts

Source: The MacKade Brothers: Devin and Shane