Nora Roberts Quotes

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

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I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked." "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.

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I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

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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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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

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

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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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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.

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

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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

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

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Love is very funny business. And sex — well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

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Because you're the one. Because I've never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don't want any of that with me, I'll give you the best I've got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don't want it.

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Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.

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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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Told you not to tell her. That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship. Build a relationship. Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. You've been reading again. Blow me.

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Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.

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She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

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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.

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Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. —Prince Carrick

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I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.

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It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.

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

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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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Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.

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

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Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.

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

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I've never been the one. Not for anybody. He closed the distance between them. You'll get used to it. He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. Why? Why am I the one? Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

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When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you'd be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

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