Nora Roberts Quotes

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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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Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

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Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, Coming out! She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. Hello, gorgeous. She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. Hey, handsome.

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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.

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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.

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I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.

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If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)

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Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

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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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I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.

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A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.

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"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

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Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

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Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

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She dealt in facts, and would stick with facts, no matter how tempting it was to leap to the next level. Instincts couldn't always be trusted. Science could.

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She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.

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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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There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.

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Do you believe in reincarnation?...I was wondering why some connections seem so easy, so natural, as if they'd already been made and are getting picked up again.

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Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

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Most people think of science as a series of steps forged in concrete, but it's not. It's a puzzle, and not all of the pieces will ever be firmly in place. When you're able to fit some of the together, to see an answer, it's thrilling.

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Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

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Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

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

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If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

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We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

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