Nora Roberts

Author

1950-10-10

Quotes by Nora Roberts

• Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

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• Family's the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that's where the spine and heart come in.

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• All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.

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• Take a few minutes.No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to.Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.

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• Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

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• Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

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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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• Well, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.

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• You're going to need this, she said, and pulled out a condom.At some point, we're also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher.Promises, promises.

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• She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way.

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• Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

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• Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

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• My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?

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• You don't want some tacky Vegas fly-by. You're serious. You're serious about friendships, about your work, your family. You're serious about Star Wars, and you active dislike of Jar Jar Binks---Well, God. Come on, anyone who---You're serious, she continued before he went on a Jar Jar rant, about living your life on your terms, and being easygoing doesn't negate that one bit. You're serious about what kind of kryptonite is more lethal to Superman.You have to go with the classic green. I told you, the gold can strip Kryptonians' powers permanently, but---......Mkae all the lists you want, Cilla. Love? It's green kryptonite. it powers out all the rest.

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• He preferred the term study to office, as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement.

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• You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one.

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• She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.

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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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• Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorrow.Well, that's... inspiring.

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• Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

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