Top 100 Nora Roberts Quotes
#1. He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
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#2. A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.
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#3. He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.
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#4. ... the rain was a fine thing. She often preferred it to the warm slant of sun and the clear brilliance of cloudless blue skies. The rain was a soft gray curtain, tucking her away from the world.
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#5. - I believe in us. - He kissed her again, swayed with her. - You're the one I can dance with.
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#6. I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.
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#7. He's a moody creature,isn't he?" she said to the bird. Auntie Em gave one impatient squawk, the extent of her vocabulary.
"Sounds like she got up on the wrong side of the perch," Alan commented.
"Oh,no.She's in a good mood if she says anything.
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#8. I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you, Gulliver.
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#9. As long as there's choice, the end is never set.
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#10. Love's not a faulty toaster. You can't take it apart and study the pieces, replace a part and figure out how it all fits back together. You just feel it.
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#11. The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.
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#12. 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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#13. Would only lead to trouble. She took a solemn
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#14. Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
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#15. You all right?"
Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.
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#17. You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.
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#18. You should appreciate those things while you have them, but you never do. Not all the way. Too busy living. Now and again, you should try to stop to appreciate the little things. They'll build up if you do.
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#19. There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.
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#20. 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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#21. He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know.
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#22. I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
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#23. Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.
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#24. school graduation. I love him, even though the times - a lot of times I really needed it - he couldn't say, 'I'm here.
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#26. Cold. Winter's still got its teeth in us." "Thanks. I know it's
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#28. If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her.
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#29. Are you telling me you're cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?
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#30. 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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#31. Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
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#32. When he pressed his lips to her heart, she wanted to weep.
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#33. Hard isn't hard if you've got a strong back and a purpose.
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#34. With a man like Jonas would be a risk that would never ease.
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#35. Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?
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#36. Bet it was some ride." Theo manfully swallowed the prickly lump in his throat. There was a
jittering inside his chest that came as much from seeing his father break apart as from anxiety over
Maddy. "I'll haul her in, Dad. You're going to wreck your arm
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#37. Is staying quiet an interrogation technique?"
"It can be. It can be also called listening.
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#38. That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me."
"Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking."
"They're wise to fear me.
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#39. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
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#40. What the hell are you doing here?"
"A typical Grant Campbell welcome.
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#41. Just because a man had a trace of blue blood in his veins didn't mean he was quality. It didn't make him a gentleman, either. All it made him was an aristocrat.
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#42. Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.
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#43. Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love.
Prince Carrick
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#44. Excuse me, but I'm very tired of being interrupted and ordered around and spoken to like a recalicitrant eight-year-old."
"Then don't behave like one," Brian suggested.
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#45. I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.
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#46. Women, they don't know what they're missing when it comes when it comes to the courageous comedy of the Three Stooges."
"Yes, yes, we do know what we're missing. We miss it on purpose."
Conversation between Flynn and Mallory in The Key of Light
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#47. A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.
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#48. I'm so angry it feels my blood's on fire. If I didn't bank it with calm, I might burn the place to the ground.
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#49. Yes, she was thrilled to find Regan so content.
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#50. You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.
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#52. You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
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#53. Stuck with a beautiful woman who knows me and wants me around anyway. For the life of me, I can't figure out what I did right.
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#54. She felt her heart beating in her throat when the man in the mask began to chant again.
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#55. He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel's heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del's hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.
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#56. You're excuses are so lame they're limping...
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#58. If you lived with her, you must have been in love with her.'
'No. I wanted to be in love with her. It's not the same thing at all.
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#59. A lot of people don't have fond memories of high school. It's often a war of politics and personalities, set off by the cannon fire of hormones.
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#61. I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
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#62. No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair
What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken
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#63. Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.
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#64. When a woman brings something up, then doesn't have much to say about it, she's got a lot to say about it." "Then
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#65. She put it away, locked up the turmoil that seeing, hearing, watching Arnie Meeks had made swirl inside her. No time, no place for it now. It would come back, she knew, spurting
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#66. If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn't sending you the 'let's go back to my place' signals. In that case - "
"Don't go there, Bob. Let's just not go there.
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#67. Missed that? "Del, don't - " "Stop arguing." He just grabbed her hand and
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#68. I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me.
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#70. 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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#71. Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating."
"Park benches are irritating to you in some moods."
"Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.
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#74. I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans.
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#75. A FINE THING IT WAS TO GIVE SOMEONE THE LINGERING glow of memories.
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#76. I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes.
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#77. Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.
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#79. It's right he's paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.
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#80. Sophie at sixteen," he remembered. "Christ. She was
like a lightning bolt. And she knew it. Irritated the hell out of me.
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#81. Can't choose where you come from, Seth. My boys and you know that better than anyone. But you can choose where you end up, and how you get there.
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#82. I don't think you ever learn everything about anyone, no matter how long you know them, or how well. There's always another pocket somewhere.
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#83. It really is. Come on in. Can I get you some coffee?
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#84. Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.
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#85. 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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#87. Make your days count. Don't invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.
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#88. Traveling,he thought.Yes, she was traveling-away from him just as fast as she could.Oh,you deserve it, Campbell, he berated himself. You deserve to have her skip out of your life without a backward glance.
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#90. Griff's taking out another wall or two at the old
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#91. Thank you! We carry local artists and artisans. There are so many
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#92. It's left to us still living to miss those who aren't.
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#93. And when you smile it can be very charming - the kind of charm a smart woman recognizes as highly dangerous.
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#94. Some people refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most, because you're afraid someday you might lost it.
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#96. When you love with all you are, it isn't unhappiness alone you risk. It's heaven, too.
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#97. Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow
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#98. Exactly." Logan folded his hands again. "I wish I could be more helpful. I would like to discuss this with you again, Dr. Court." "In the meantime, we have a pattern." Ben crushed out his cigarette as he rose. "We
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#99. You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red." He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. "I think you have to marry me now. You're the first woman besides Loo who's seen her and known what she is. I'm pretty sure we're engaged.
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#100. Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.
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