Nora Roberts Quotes

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Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

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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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Do you always get away with the outrageous?" "Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?" "Don't waste your charm." "It's all right, I have more.

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It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

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

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He loves me." "You sound surprised." "Nobody ever did. Not like this. It's easy to say, for some people. The words. But it's not just words with Roarke. He sees inside me, and it doesn't matter.

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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.

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A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

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

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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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No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

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You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.

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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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Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.

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

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Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.

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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.

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Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

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You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.

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

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Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

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

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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.

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Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick, innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.

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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.

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The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. (...) But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.

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- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

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I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want!

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Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

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

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