Nora Roberts citations

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“Il y a dans notre amour plus de magie que la plupart des gens n'en connaîtront jamais.”

“Tu as vraiment fait regarder Clueless à ta classe de littérature anglaise pour illustrer l'actualité d'Emma de Jane Austen?”

“La journée a été longue, lieutenant.
-Oui. J'ai une idée pour l'achever en beauté. Que dirais-tu d'un petit cambriolage nocturne?
- Chérie, je craignais que tu ne me le proposes jamais.”

“… Il porte une veste en tweed, Parker. Ce sont les papys qui portent du tweed. Les vieux croûtons dans les films anglais rétro. Pourquoi je trouve ça sexy sur lui?”

“D'un coup de reins, il la pénétra. Quand il fut au tréfonds d'elle, qui riait toujours, ivre de vin et de joie, elle lui murmura à l'oreille:
- Joyeux Noël, mon amour.
- Joyeux Noël, mon amour, répéta-t-il avant que la jouissance ne les emporte tous les deux.”

“[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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Good fiction creates its own reality.”