The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.
Nora RobertsIf you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.
Nora RobertsLove's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.
Nora RobertsNiall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.
Nora RobertsYou got used to running things on your own." "What could he do about it when he's in Iraq and the car breaks down in Kansas?" Beckett gave her a long, quiet look. "I'm not in Iraq." "No, and it has to be said, I'm not in Kansas anymore." She lifted her hands, then let them fall. "It's not that I've forgotten how to be a couple, but that my experience in being part of one is different from yours. Maybe from most people's. And I've been on my own a long time." "Now you're not. I'm not fighting a war, and I'm right here." Needed to be here, he realized, with her.
Nora Roberts