Nora roberts quotes

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.

When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There’s nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.

It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.

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.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.

The simple and most complex answer is love.

You're excuses are so lame they're limping.

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

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.

You have heard the expression 'love is blind'" "I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before

i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke

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.

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.

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.

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me." He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.

[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.

What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.

You 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.

Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.

I hate patience. Slows everything down.

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.

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.

I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.

If you can't dance on it, it isn't coffee.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.

Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

Things have a way of falling into place.

The purest magic is in the heart.

... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.

Winning can be addictive

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

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.

Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them?

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.

When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.

When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.

Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

- "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl world in my head, where I go when I'm annoyed with Carter, or just men in general. There are five shoe stores per capita, nothing has any calories, and all the books and movies end happy ever after." - "I like Amazonia. When do we leave?

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

You have to believe in it to get it.

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

Life has very little even ground.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

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.

- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)

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.

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

You can't edit a blank page

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

“I'm not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? “I've been right here all along. I love you, Eve, almost more than I can stand.” “I need you. I can't help it. I don't want to.” “I know. He eased back, tucking a hand under her chin to lift her face to his. “We’re going to have to deal with it.” He kissed one wet cheek, then the other. “I really can’t do without you.“

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

Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.

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

There are no dead ends, just detours.

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow

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

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

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

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.

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.

Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie

We all look. The lucky find.

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.

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

You can fix anything but a blank page.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

Life is full of circles

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.