Nora Roberts Quotes

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

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

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

“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”

“My boyfriend and I are badasses.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.”

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

“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 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”

“Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.”

“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.”

“I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.”

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

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

“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.”

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