Nora Roberts Quotes

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

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A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth.

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You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.

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You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

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You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

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It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson." But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.

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Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

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Luck is luck.... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

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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.

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I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." —Roarke, Naked In Death

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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.

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Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

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I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

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Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.

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Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

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

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But even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

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

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For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair. "I love you," she murmured. "I love you so much, I'm stupid about it." With a sigh, she settled down, closed her eyes, and willed her mind to empty. Beside her, Roarke smiled into the dark. He never slept first.

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It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner than later, in my opinion, the right woman can and should be leader of the free world. But you can't understand the male bonding rituals any more than men can understand why the vast majority of women are obsessed with shoes and other footwear.

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Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type." "You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man," Penny corrected. "Or you're not.

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When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There's nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.

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

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My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.

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It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life

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