Nora Roberts Quotes

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

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.

What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

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.

Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.

[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.

How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female." "McNab?" Eve said. "Yes, sir." "Shut up." "It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple." "A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.

Abby: "You were great. I don't know what I'd have done without you." Dylan: "You'd have done fine. That's one of the most intimidating things about you." Abby: "Intimidating? Me?" Dylan: "It isn't easy for a man to get involved with a woman who's totally capable of handling anything that comes along... It isn't easy for a man to believe that there are woman who can not only do those things but enjoy them... [But] it's all natural for you isn't it? It's incredible.

-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.

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?

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.

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

Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.

Every single book is a challenge.

"It doesn't matter how long it takes." She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. "It's how long it lasts."

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies?" "Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.

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.

Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

I'd rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.

Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.

...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

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.

And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.

It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

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.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.