Top 100 Quotes About Nora Roberts
#1. Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
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#2. She wanted a degree in business technology, not to be the next freaking Nora Roberts.
Mari Carr
#4. Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care.
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#5. He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair ... He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.
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#6. He'd said he was in love with her. And that just filled her up and emptied her out again. It made her want to shake, it made her want to weep. It made her want to hold onto him as if her life depended on it.
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#7. Children give a house its personality, you know, more than its decorating. They leave their mark on it.
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#8. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
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#9. 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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#10. 'Scent's the thing, right? How you find someone. I've got yours inside me. I could find you whether I wanted to or not. Whether you wanted me to or not.'
'I'm not lost.'
'I still found you.'
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#11. I know you ... I know if you love him there's something in him that makes him worthy of it.
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#12. To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.
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#13. Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?'
'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.
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#14. When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it".
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#15. Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
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#16. 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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#18. 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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#19. Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.
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#20. The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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#21. A bit of sniffles and men are more work than a brood of babies.
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#22. You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.
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#23. 'Sweet magnetic Jesus on the dashboard. On the table?'
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#24. What if it's an art film with subtitles?" "Then I'll suffer in silence.
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#25. Do you need to get that? Wherever it is."
"If I do, somebody'll just want to talk to me. I'd rather talk to you."
How anyone could work in such confusion and disorder was beyond her.
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#26. I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
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#27. People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
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#28. Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.
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#29. I know it. Just as I know if you made it a choice between you and me, I wouldn't stand a chance.
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#30. Ben, schizophrenia alone disables more people for a longer time than cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people are confined to hospitals. We can't turn our backs on them or burn them as witches because of a chemical imbalance in the brain." He
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#31. 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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#32. That dog'll roll in the snow, run in the snow, eat the damn snow, but he wont throught it to shit. I dont clear the path, he shits right by the door. Why is that?
Ryder asked.
Owen replied, "Hence the name."
The name of Ryder's dog ... Dumbass ...
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#33. It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with.
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#34. Tucker, you tell that girl when I offer to have a brandy with a Yankee, that Yankee better drink.
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#35. However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death.
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#37. They'd look attractive together because they're both attractive. That's not the same thing as right.
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#38. Properly trained, a man can be a dog's best friend.
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#39. Fitzgerald could take care of herself. Chapter 3 For the third morning in a row, Maggie was awakened by the sound of men and machinery outside her windows.
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#40. need this." Maureen jogged in place. "Eighteen kindergartners on a sugar high. Every teacher in America should have their salaries doubled and get a bouquet of roses every freaking week. And a bottle of Landon Whiskey's gold label." "I
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#41. When the moon wanes, the darkness eats it. Bite by bite.
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#42. Laura, there aren't any guarantees. You certainly know that. Yes, you could be hurt. You could also be happy. Or you could just get your oil checked.
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#43. 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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#44. That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
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#45. Flowers, champagne, caviar. Do you usually come so well equipped when you break and enter?"
"Only when I want to apologize and throw myself on the mercy of a beautiful woman.
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#46. ... 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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#48. Her head, stopped a breath from his lips, pulled back,
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#49. What's an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them?
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#50. Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
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#51. - I believe in us. - He kissed her again, swayed with her. - You're the one I can dance with.
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#54. If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.
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#55. I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had
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#56. My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.
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#57. 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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#58. You'd think the man could have called her once, she thought, scowling at her boots. Sent a telegram, a damn smoke signal.
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#59. And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.
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#60. Why stop now? Seduce me, Brian.I dare you."
"I've always found it hard to turn aside a dare.
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#61. her long, lovely eyes, mirrored the grief. "It's a hard, hard thing. I can't even imagine it." "Your life stops right there. Just stops. And when it starts up again, it's different. It's never what it was before that moment. Never." He
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#62. One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
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#63. 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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#64. It wasn't the paramedics or the surgical team that saved my life. It was Ray and Stella Quinn.
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#65. You're seriously talking about a ghost. This building - or parts of it - has been here for two and a half centuries. It would strike me odder if there wasn't a ghost. Not everything, everyone, leaves.
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#66. You're going to
buy him a car. He'd tell you anything you want to hear."
"See why I love you? You've got him nailed
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#67. You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
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#68. I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.
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#69. 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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#70. And my father?"
Brian's grin flashed. "I like thinking that's where I got the fifty.I told him he's better off sticking with the horses."
Keeley's brow rose. "And his response to that?"
"Isn't something I can repeat in polite company.
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#71. The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.
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#75. And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.
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#76. Could you rewind that question?" "Zack's working up to asking you
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#77. Always knock a wall down, and build a nice walk out of it.
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#78. She called on Hecate, on Brighid, on Morrigan and Babd Catha, summoning the strength and power of the goddesses.
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#79. As long as there's choice, the end is never set.
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#80. Anyone who has character leaves a mark on another.
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#81. You are wise as well as short."
"I can also break bricks with my bare hands."
"That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
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#83. It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.
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#84. He can't face you on an adult level, so he comes along and fucks up your truck. Classic payback method for the tiny-dick type.
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#85. Squats are a form of torture designed by people who don't need to do squats in the first place
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#86. Twenty-five thousand," Maggie murmured. A tidy sum, even tidier ten years ago. "You're telling me you think the money was the motive for murder?" "Money's always a motive for murder, and it's a loose end.
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#88. When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
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#90. That's what I used to tell her. And she'd say it's not the age, it's the seniority."
"She loves you. A lot."
"Feeling's mutual. What're you smiling at?
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#92. Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.
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#93. There would be no children in the world if men had to bring them into it.
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#94. Coffee, Chocolate, Men . . . Some things are just better rich.
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#95. It is easy to be brave when you have a child depending on you.
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#96. What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.
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#97. Why haven't you taken door number one already?
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#98. Grief swarmed into her heart like angry bees.
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#99. I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
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