Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts is an American author of more than 225 romance novels. She writes as J. D. Robb for the in Death series and has also written under the pseudonyms Jill March and for publications in the U.K. as Sarah Hardesty. Roberts was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. (Nora Roberts Quotes)
“A broken spirit is more debilitating than a broken body.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“A case was a jigsaw puzzle to him, and he never tired of shifting through the pieces.”
Nora Roberts
Sacred Sins
“A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“A leader’s who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren’t any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“A man can be pulled in by beauty and not see beneath it.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“A man who could tell that terrible lie, live with that terrible lie, had something missing inside him.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight’s just too heavy on the one side, and the other can’t lift to it.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.”
Nora Roberts
Black Hills
“A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“Alone, Roarke took the gray fabric button from his pocket, the one he’d found on the floor of his limo. The one that had fallen from the jacket of that drab gray suit she’d worn the first time he’d seen her. Studying it, knowing he had no intention of giving it back to her, he felt like a fool.”
Nora Roberts
Naked in Death
“And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone’s private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Ice
“And sometimes those major, monumental crises have no effect on certain types. Which means, no matter what the circumstances, assholes remain assholes.”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depiction in perfect oils of some fallen angel. The sheer beauty of it, framed by all that rich black hair, was forever a surprise to her.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having her throat slashed, Roarke had been fucking the hell out of the investigating officer.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“Because death’s an insult anytime. When somebody hurries it along, that’s the biggest insult of all.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.”
Nora Roberts
Jewels of the Sun
“Because you’re the one. Because I’ve never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don’t want any of that with me, I’ll give you the best I’ve got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don’t want it.”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations he had no desire to face.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Ice
“Being dead didn’t make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch”
Nora Roberts
Montana Sky
“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.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“But people like the Mercers, like Kurt Rove, belittle and bad-talk those of us who, well, have something that might help get all of us through.”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“But sometimes you know one thing and feel another.”
Nora Roberts
The Last Boyfriend
“But that was personal. No one, absolutely no one comes into our home and speaks to you that way.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“But tonight, she embraced the truth. She loved. Had always loved, would always love.”
Nora Roberts
Blood Magick
“But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“But you stand up for me. You tell me the truth. You make me laugh, and you make me want. You let me be and feel who I am. And you fell in love with me even when you didn’t want to.”
Nora Roberts
The Perfect Hope
“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.”
Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue
“Coming from something doesn’t make it what you are.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.”
Nora Roberts
Tribute
“Could never explain it to anyone, the way a fear can live inside you. The way it dictates how you think and how you act, what you say, what you don’t dare say.”
Nora Roberts
Carolina Moon
“Couples take care of each other, Clare, that’s what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scare them.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“Creative is my god. Technology my cherished lover.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“Creative people study other people; and music is a science as much as an art, an emotion as much as a science.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“Death didn’t shock her, but it appalled her, and she knew it always would: the waste of it, the violence and cruelty of it. But she lived with it too much to be shocked, even by this.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“Did people never fall in love with anyone who was eager to return in?”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?”
Nora Roberts
Stars of Fortune
“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”
Nora Roberts
Black Hills
“Don’t let the fear and suspicion of the brutal and ignorant make you doubt yourself.”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“Don’t let anything stop you from going where you need to go, from doing what you need to do. Make your mark on the world, and make it deep so it lasts.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“Don’t say hit and mountain in the same sentence.”
Nora Roberts
Northern Lights
“Dreams were essential, creativity a must, but details, sweat, and a business plan made dreams a reality.”
Nora Roberts
Under Currents
“Every day, in the midst of tragedy and despair, people go on. Every one of those who go on lives with loss, lives with uncertainty. Everyone has a story to tell, of a life that was, a life that is. This is Ben’s story.”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“Everyone knows that while we have to go on, we can never, should never, forget.”
Nora Roberts
Shelter in Place
“Feelings are feelings. I don’t understand why people blame other people for what they feel.”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“Feelings need to be expressed, Hope. They aren’t always understood the way people like to assume.”
Nora Roberts
The Perfect Hope
“Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“Finally, he’s back in the little blue-and-white house where there’s always a boat at the dock, a rocker on the porch, and a dog in the yard.”
Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue
“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Ice
“Friends are friends whenever you make them.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“From her hiding place in the brush, a young girl watched, her eyes wide with curiosity. There was a burning smell coming from the pit where flames crackled, sending sparks shooting high. Odd shapes had been carved in the trunks of the circling trees.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
Divine Evil
“Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.”
Nora Roberts
The Pagan Stone
“Hand me a shovel, he thought. I’m getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben”
Nora Roberts
Montana Sky
“He almost felt guilty about bringing even fictional murder and mayhem to such a place.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Ice
“He didn’t expect to find her. I didn’t expect him to find her. She makes a difference, in him, in the book.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“He found his mother and Carolee on two in the Eve and Roarke room.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“He just didn’t believe he deserved to have anyone really care about him.”
Nora Roberts
Sacred Sins
“He stayed nearly an hour. Clare would have kissed him again just for the fact he’d given her kids such a great time. He’d never seemed bored or annoyed with a conversation dominated by superheroes, their powers, their partners, their foes.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“He thought back to his early twenties when he’d routinely looked for ways to meet women. He should’ve rented a puppy.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“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.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“He was evil,” Clare whispered. “Not crazy, not ill, just evil. I didn’t know that could be.”
Nora Roberts
Divine Evil
“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.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“Heroism’s just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it’s just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won’t do….It’s not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there’s nobody else there to do it. It’s getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.”
Nora Roberts
Northern Lights
“His eyes were anything but friendly, the color of bitter storms.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. —Samuel Smiles”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and, ah, how old is my heart. —WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS”
Nora Roberts
Blood Magick
“How the hell do I know what pisses a woman off?…Nobody knows because it can be any damn thing. It’s an unsolved mystery. And the next day, that any damn thing is fine, and it’s some other damn thing. No man knows.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
The Last Boyfriend
“How we ever came from the same parents is a wonder. Nothing suits you more than a crowd, and nothing suits me less.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.”
Nora Roberts
Northern Lights
“I believe strongly in the threefold rule. What you send out into the universe, good or bad, comes back at you threefold. But I’d risk whatever came at me to send out something that would drop that bitch like a stone down a bottomless well for trying to hurt you or my baby.”
Nora Roberts
Shelter in Place
“I can’t believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.”
Nora Roberts
Jewels of the Sun
“I can’t tell you how aroused it makes me when you quote codes, lieutenant.”
Nora Roberts
Naked in Death
“I don’t get treadmills. You get all sweaty and go nowhere. Now, sex? You get all sweaty and go everywhere.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“I don’t kick a man when he’s down, unless I’m the one who put him down in the first place. I don’t put him down unless he deserves it. And I don’t break my word if I give it. So I’ll give you my word.”
Nora Roberts
Northern Lights
“I don’t like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm.”
Nora Roberts
Naked in Death
“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.”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“I guess money can’t buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”
Nora Roberts
Tribute
“I hope that’s true, because I figured out why I’d never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“I know how to take care of myself.” “No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don’t know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That’s conceit.” She slapped the glass on the counter. “It’s independence and capability.” “To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“I may not know precisely how this sort of thing functions, but I understand perfectly well your family’s opinion of me will be important.” “My mother and sisters already like you.” “They may tend in that direction, until I rudely attend the barbecue without a covered dish.”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“I pledge to you, all I am, all I have or will have. I will protect you, defend you, love you with every breath. Be my partner, my wife, my mate, from this moment.”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“I read everything. It was one of the most surefire ways to go somewhere else for a while.”
Nora Roberts
Under Currents
“I saw you standing on a veranda you’d built with your own hands. And I loved you.”
Nora Roberts
Tribute
“I thought he waited for you at the side door every night, then walked you back at dawn because you were holding a secret canasta tournament. You mean you’re having sex? I’m shocked.”
“I thought it was over, all I could think was I never told you I love you. What an idiot.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“I want to be there for you. That’s new for me. It’s your own fault. You just kept at me till I was in love with you. First time I haven’t aimed and shot first. I kinda like it.”
Nora Roberts
Carolina Moon
“I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want.”
Nora Roberts
The Obsession
“I went wherever I could that wasn’t there. Most of the time, though, I came here. I sheltered in place, but I kept looking for somewhere or something else. I’m not sure I knew, until you, that it was more than that for me, more than sheltering in place. It was my place, my home. Nothing she can do will change that.”
Nora Roberts
Shelter in Place
“I’m done lighting out, done needing to. This is my land. It’s not about the owning of it, but waking up in the morning knowing you’re where you want to be, having good work to do and good people around you.”
Nora Roberts
Come Sundown
“I’m not looking for a man right now. Too damn much trouble. Even when it’s good, they take a lot of time, effort, and energy. I’m enjoying using all that time, effort, and energy on myself.”
Nora Roberts
Blue Dahlia
“I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“I’d have given you everything I had. If you’d needed more, I’d have found it, and given you that. It’s the way I love. It’s the only way I know how.”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“If a man hits you once, he’s probably going to hit you again, and again.”
Nora Roberts
Legacy
“If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“If I didn’t say it, how do you know?” “When you touch me, when you look at me, when you hold me, I feel it.” She looked up at him, eyes drenched. “And I couldn’t love you this much without you loving me back. I couldn’t know how right it is to be with you if I didn’t know you loved me.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“If I were writing a book I’d talk about it all the time, to everyone. People would start to avoid me, so I’d seek out complete strangers and talk about it until they, too, avoided me.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“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.”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“If you can be pretty and smart and kind, well, that’s what makes a real princess.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“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.”
Nora Roberts
Jewels of the Sun
“If you need to be pissed off at me today, you’re going to have to get in line. There’s quite a wait.”
Nora Roberts
Carolina Moon
“I’ll give you everything I’ve got, and if you need more, I’ll find it and give it to you.”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“I’m good at figuring out how things work, but I don’t know how this happened.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“I’m messing this up. I love you. I should’ve started with that. I swear I trip up more with you than anybody. I love you, Clare. I always did, but it’s different loving who you are now. It’s so damn solid. You’re so solid, so steady, strong, smart. I love who you are, how you are. I love those boys, you have to know.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“I’m not after romance. It’s the sort of thing that weakens resolve and clouds sense.”
Nora Roberts
Blood Magick
“I’m not trying to box you in. I’m just trying to live with you.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“I’m still picking pockets-I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“In my world, the self-righteous are often the ones sneaking around getting blow jobs before they go home to the wives and kiddies.”
Nora Roberts
Tribute
“In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“In today’s climate no one wants imperfection in their leaders. Once a flaw is dug out, as the press is hell-bent to do, it’s maximized and twisted until it becomes a bigger issue than a man’s record.”
Nora Roberts
Brazen Virtue
“Is there any exceptionally beautiful woman you haven’t slept with?” “I’ll make you a list. So, you knocked her down.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“It hurts now, and the pain’s real, so hugs, my treasure. But give it a few weeks, and you’ll realize he’s just another asshole.”
Nora Roberts
Shelter in Place
“It made her look younger, more fit. It increased her energy and her sexual drive.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“It never makes any sense, you know? Being mean never makes any sense.”
Nora Roberts
The Rise of Magicks
“It pulled at her, as such scenes often did, and she found herself leaving the scent of coffee, grabbing her Nikon, and rushing out barefoot into the chilly night to photograph the deserted street. It soothed her as nothing else could. With a camera in her hand and an image in her mind, she could forget everything else.”
Nora Roberts
Sanctuary
“It shouldn’t make you sad to know you’re loved, Grayson.” But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Ice
“It shows who we are. We’re making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane. Yeah, we’re okay. They couldn’t take who we are away from us. We’re who we are despite them.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
Under Currents
“It stunned him how much he could want her still, baffled him that she could be blind to how helpless he was under the clawing need for her. It infuriated him that she could, simply by existing, be his weakness.”
Nora Roberts
Naked in Death
“It takes two to speak the truth— one to speak, and another to hear.”
Nora Roberts
River’s End
“It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.”
Nora Roberts
Three Fates
“It wasn’t like a date, she reasoned. Not like some weird double date with her and the brother of the dead guy and her best friend and her best friend’s ex-husband who didn’t really count. It was just eating.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“It’s a fucking pharmaceutical conspiracy, Eve. We’ve wiped out just about every known plague, disease, and infection. Oh, we come up with a new one every now and again, to give the researchers something to do. But none of these bright-eyed medical types, none of the medi-computers can figure out how to cure the common fucking cold.”
Nora Roberts
Naked in Death
“It’s always seemed to me things are more exciting when you’re not looking and you find them.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“It’s better to see and know you’re a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“It’s funny how a near death experience makes you realize not making time is wasting time.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.”
Nora Roberts
The Perfect Hope
“It’s harsh. There’s enough harsh in the world. I’m going to try a little optimism for a change.”
Nora Roberts
The Last Boyfriend
“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.”
Nora Roberts
The Perfect Hope
“It’s praise and punish. It’s how they get you to do what they want, how they train you.”
Nora Roberts
The Obsession
“It’s ridiculous to say not to speak ill of the dead. We’re all going to be dead eventually. What would we talk about in the meantime?”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“It’s not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.”
Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue
“I’ve wanted to be with you when I didn’t have the right to.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“Just as only one week ago, the respected and dedicated defender of justice, Cicely Towers had her life brought to an end.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“Just one of the people who walk past a corner of your life.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“Lana breathed in, breathed out. Like giving birth, she thought. Letting a child find her way in the world wasn’t all that different, really, from bringing them into the world.”
Nora Roberts
The Rise of Magicks
“Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.”
Nora Roberts
Dance Upon the Air
“Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain. —Aristotle”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“Life’s a gift. It doesn’t always fit comfortably, but it’s precious. I wouldn’t have hurt you and your brothers by throwing mine away.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“Light defeats the dark. Fire purifies. And blood is at the heart of all.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“Loss can shake faith if you let it, and the dark gloats when faith seeps out with loss.”
Nora Roberts
The Rise of Magicks
“Love can fade and die. I’ve seen it. It can grow and build as well. I think when it’s real and meant, it can only grow bigger and stronger.”
Nora Roberts
Blood Magick
“Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“Love doesn’t require payment. Cam’s right about that. There are no checks and balances here.”
Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue
“Love has no end, no borders, no limits. The more you give, the more there is.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.”
Nora Roberts
Blood Brothers
“Love isn’t finite, Fallon. If you take nothing else from me, take that.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“Love isn’t finite, Raylan. It always makes more room.”
Nora Roberts
Legacy
“Love shouldn’t be hard.” “There I think you’re wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it’s not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“Love, as he knew too well, could slice you to pieces and leave no visible scar.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“Love’s the glue. Use it right, it can fix most anything.”
Nora Roberts
Shelter in Place
“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.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“Love’s scary, and sometimes it’s transient. But it’s worth the risks and the nerves. It’s even worth the pain.”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“Make your days count. Don’t invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Ice
“Marriage is a series of compromises, and at its best, the compromises create a life, a partnership.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“Maybe some could say that changing her mind was part of her problem. But she didn’t think so. If you never changed your mind, what was the point of having one? It seemed to Hayley she’d known too many people who were stuck with one way of thinking, and how could that be using the brain God gave you.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
Blue Dahlia
“Men are boys in bigger packages.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“Men didn’t respect beauty…they used it.”
Nora Roberts
Montana Sky
“Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“Mothers do, every day. It’s funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way—the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.”
Nora Roberts
Come Sundown
“My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson. ‘Boy’, he would say to me in the thick brogue of a champion drunk, ‘the only way to fight is to fight dirty. The only place to hit is below the belt.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“Neither of them knew what it was to be family, to have family, to make a family. They knew cruelty, abuse, abandonment. She wondered if that was why they had come together. They both understood what it was to have nothing, to know fear and hunger and despair- and both had remade themselves.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“Nothing happens to us without a purpose, little sister. What we do because of it, what we do about it, is the key to who and what we are.”
Nora Roberts
Dance Upon the Air
“Nothing legal makes you feel that good, honey. Or that mean. And she was feeling good and mean.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“Now it would be foolish to deny that she wanted to understand him.”
Nora Roberts
Sacred Sins
“Of course. You were attracted to my allergies and phobias. I’ve always found them ruthless sexual tools.”
Nora Roberts
Three Fates
“Optimism wasn’t always a shield against the worst of it, and acceptance wasn’t always enough.”
Nora Roberts
Brazen Virtue
“Or better yet, may all the gods who ever were bless us, and help us send the bloody bastard to hell.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“Our life is a gift, not always easy, certainly not always perfect.”
Nora Roberts
Sacred Sins
“People and relationships never stop being a work in progress”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“People say to someone they love: I’d die for you. They don’t expect to, of course, have no plans to. They may believe it, or mean it, or it may simply be an expression of devotion. But I know what it means now, I understand that impossible depth of emotion now. And I know you would die for me. You’d put my life before yours to protect me. And that terrifies me.”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.”
Nora Roberts
Blue Dahlia
“Power and privilege will always be attacked by smaller men who claim they have a cause. But the cause is always avarice. Whatever lofty excuse men use for war or revolution, it’s always because they want the power another holds.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“Power should come from work, time, effort. Care,” he added. “As the most important things do.”
Nora Roberts
Stars of Fortune
“Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. —Sir Francis Bacon”
Nora Roberts
Legacy
“Roarke’s brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve’s body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“Romance made every woman beautiful, and every man a prince. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”
Nora Roberts
Bed of Roses
“Romantic couples. Each room has its own flavor, its own feel.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you’re risking.”
Nora Roberts
The Collector
“She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion…”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“She could smell death there. No matter what was used to eradicate it, the sulky stink of it slid through cracks, around doorways, and it tainted the air with the grinning reminder of mortality.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“She drew in a shuddering breath. “I love you.” And let it out. “God.” The emotion that swept through him was like a summer storm, quick, violent, then clean. Swamped with it, he rested his brow on hers. “You didn’t choke on it.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“She felt her heart beating in her throat when the man in the mask began to chant again.”
Nora Roberts
Divine Evil
“She had lessons on politics, and found them annoying, as people talked too much, did too little.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“She hadn’t felt the click often enough in her life to take it for granted. And when it was so obviously echoed in the man who caused it… that was something to think about.”
Nora Roberts
Sanctuary
“She hoped the Quinns would allow her a few moments alone with Seth, so she could judge for herself, without influence, how he was feeling. She hoped she could steal a few moments alone with Cam, so she could judge for herself how she was feeling.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“She knew I was coming to see you, so I don’t think she’ll be surprised”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“She left me because she could, because I made a choice that allowed her to walk away. I could make her proud of me, proud of what she’d accomplished in me, but I could never make her love me.”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“She pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she’d known a way.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“She read in her room by the light of an oil lamp until mind and body gave way to fatigue.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“She smiled away the bellman’s offer to fetch her ice, or anything she might wish. She only wanted solitude again.”
Nora Roberts
Stars of Fortune
“She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“She’d never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn’t separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control.”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“She’d made a policy not to analyze men she dated. Too often you learned more than you wanted to know.”
Nora Roberts
Sacred Sins
“Some made the right choices, and made the best of their chances.”
Nora Roberts
Black Hills
“Some people leave a legacy of goodness behind them.”
Nora Roberts
Legacy
“Some people relax better without the confines of clothes,” Peabody said, then flushed when Eve cast a considering glance over her shoulder.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“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.”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“Sometimes, she thought, you had to go with your instincts, with your cravings. At that moment hers, all of hers, centered on him.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“Sundays were knowing absolutely nothing had to be done, and countless things could be.”
Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue
“Symbols are important. The Christians followed the pagans there, carving and painting their one God as the old ones carved and painted the many. Neither understand that the one is part of the many, the many part of the one.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“That click between them had the potential, she knew, to reverberate through the rest of her life.”
Nora Roberts
Naked in Death
“That married and dead aren’t the same. We were married sixty-seven years before he passed, and the both of us were free to look all we wanted. Touching, now? That’s when married and dead are the same.”
Nora Roberts
Come Sundown
“That the fate of the world rests with a girl who knows so little.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“That was about to change. She watched her mother pack. Susan, her rich brown hair already coiled in her signature French twist, neatly hung another suit in the organized garment bag, then checked off the printout with each day of the week’s medical conference broken into subgroups. The printout included a spreadsheet listing every event, appointment, meeting and meal, scheduled with the selected”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren’t there.”
Nora Roberts
Naked in Death
“That’s possible to likely. We’re involved, you and me. I’m telling you what I’m going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“The air scored his throat on each breath like crushed glass.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“The animals retired to their dens, wandering out when the mood struck them to watch the humans shiver and swear. Bundled to the eyeballs, Lil crossed paths with Tansy.”
Nora Roberts
Black Hills
“The creation of fire was, arguably, the first magickal act of man. Bloodstone—fire and blood.”
Nora Roberts
The Pagan Stone
“The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.”
Nora Roberts
Stars of Fortune
“The mind, and the unconscious mind in particular, is a canvas. We paint on it constantly. Art and music can add such colors, such style.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“The need to take her was raging, some fatal drug that stabbed into his veins, speeding up his heartbeat and clouding his mind.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“The outward appearance would never indicate they were brothers. But she could see that at the moment they were as united as triplets in the womb.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“The place smelled like an incense farm married to a flower shop.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“The treasures, the dreams, the dangers, the glorious diversity of the world and those who live in it. She’s a generous mother who offers all we need, and she’s a child who needs our tending and care.”
Nora Roberts
The Rise of Magicks
“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover’s tears.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“The words weren’t so important, Aidan thought. It was just so soothing to listen to her.”
Nora Roberts
Jewels of the Sun
“The world ended with bangs and whimpers, with blood and pain, with fear and dread. A cashier handing change to a customer, a mother nursing her child, businessmen gripping hands over a deal—these and so many simple contacts spread death like a poisoned cloud over the world. And billions fell.”
Nora Roberts
The Rise of Magicks
“Their life could be made up of thousands of simple moments. And still never be ordinary.”
Nora Roberts
Northern Lights
“Then she remembered what her mother called heart-sleep. That sleep a wounded heart needed to help it heal. She rubbed the ring and medal between her fingers.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.”
Nora Roberts
The Obsession
“There is a source for the light, for all we are, for the air we breathe, the earth we stand on. Life is a gift, even to a blade of grass, and must be honored. We have been given more, and must honor the gift and the giver.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.”
Nora Roberts
Dance Upon the Air
“There’s just no love like the love of a mother for a child, no matter how that child comes into their life, and no loss or grief to match it.”
Nora Roberts
Come Sundown
“There’s never been anyone like you. I keep worrying that I’ll make the wrong move.”
Nora Roberts
Sacred Sins
“There’s no law saying I can’t bitch about it first.”
Nora Roberts
The Rise of Magicks
“They had their feast, a happy family group, roasted wild pheasant seasoned with tarragon, stuffed with oranges, apples, shallots, and sage, cooked on a bed of carrots and potatoes, tomatoes. Peas and good brown bread from the oven, farm butter. Good friends, old friends”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“Thoughts, ideas, music, desires, poetry, anger, hate. People speak of the heart, Lieutenant, but it’s the brain that holds all the magic and mystery of the human species. It elevates us, separates us, defines us as individuals. And the secrets of it—well, it’s doubtful we’ll ever know them all.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“Time with a friend was as refreshing as a nap.”
Nora Roberts
The Perfect Hope
“To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.”
Nora Roberts
Stars of Fortune
“To make the Savior is your fate. Life out of death, light out of dark. To save the Savior is your fate. Life out of death, light out of dark.”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“To relax, she got down on hands and knees and scrubbed the kitchen floor.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Ice
“Tragedy doesn’t necessarily change us. More often, I think, it just brings out more of who we are or were all along.”
Nora Roberts
Shelter in Place
“Two lost souls. He’d once called them that. She wondered if they’d stopped being lost when they’d found each other.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“Two of the top rules—Try Not to Hurt Anybody, and Have the Balls to Say What You Think—often clashed, but the results blended with her Be An Asshole When Necessary rule, so it worked for her.”
Nora Roberts
Shelter in Place
“Two women dressed in red robes stepped into the circle. Their faces were not hooded and were very white, with a slash of scarlet over their lips. Like vampires who had already feasted. One, following the careful instructions she had been given, shed her robe and stood naked in the light of a dozen black candles, then draped herself over a raised slab of polished wood. She would be their altar of living flesh, the virgin on which they would worship. The fact that she was a prostitute and far from pure disturbed some of them.”
Nora Roberts
Divine Evil
“Until I learned to accept I was a victim, but I didn’t have to stay one.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“Was it genes or magick? she wondered. But then, for some, one was the same as the other”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“We got a clear night. You see something like that sky, no matter how long you’ve been the police, you just don’t understand why people do what they do to people.”
Nora Roberts
Come Sundown
“We had an injured wolf brought in a couple weeks ago. Clipped by a car. Matt saved it. We’ve gotten a lot of hits on the pictures there, and the column Tansy wrote for it.”
Nora Roberts
Black Hills
“We’re a superstitious breed, we Irish, and wise enough to build around a faerie hill without disturbing it, to leave a stone dance where it stands. And to keep back from a place where the dark still thrums.”
Nora Roberts
Blood Magick
“We’re standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you’re asking me to marry you?” “Perfect timing.”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“Were we able to release it?” “It’s still gimpy. Matt doesn’t think it’ll make it out there in the world. She’s an old girl. We’re calling her Xena, because she looks like a warrior.”
Nora Roberts
Black Hills
“What people know, what they believe, what they accept? Those are all different matters, aren’t they?”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“What you have is as much a part of you as the color of your eyes, the shape of your mouth.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“What’s an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them?”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“When a man is clever enough and knows his quarry well enough to choose such a time and place to propose marriage, well, a woman was a goner.”
Nora Roberts
Immortal in Death
“When a woman brings something up, then doesn’t have much to say about it, she’s got a lot to say about it.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“When a woman had eyes that big, that brown, that beautiful, she probably got whatever she wanted without saying a word.” (Nora Roberts Quotes)
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“When I’m going up against a homicidal god, I like having a witch in my corner,”
Nora Roberts
Stars of Fortune
“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“When the moon wanes, the darkness eats it. Bite by bite.”
Nora Roberts
Stars of Fortune
“When the ritual was done, they left some of the cake for the birds, poured some of the wine on the ground for the goddess.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“When we destroy it.” She spoke clearly now, steadily now. “If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it”.”
Nora Roberts
The Pagan Stone
“When you know the answer, it’s not being hardheaded. It’s just being right.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“When you love with all you are, it isn’t unhappiness alone you risk. It’s heaven, too.”
Nora Roberts
Born in Fire
“When you try to make somebody feel stupid when they ask a question, you’re the stupid one.”
Nora Roberts
Black Hills
“When you wanted to much, too quickly, he thought, it was best to take things slow.”
Nora Roberts
Sacred Sins
“When you’ve had less than little in some things, you’re grateful for even a spoonful of more.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“Where are the sacred forms, and the ritual knife so I can slice open a vein and sign them in blood?”
Nora Roberts
Blue Dahlia
“Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.”
Nora Roberts
The Obsession
“While the bells rang and echoed, she sat near the edge of the water. Here was peace, she thought, and joy. She would never, never take either for granted. She would remember to give something back every day. Even if it was just a heel of bread for the gulls. She would tend what she planted. She would remember to be kind, and never forget to offer a helping hand.”
Nora Roberts
Dance Upon the Air
“Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn’t recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.”
Nora Roberts
Dance Upon the Air
“Why is it men are called strong or tough, and women stubborn?”
Nora Roberts
Come Sundown
“Why is it you think you’ll live forever and why do you want to, I’d like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?”
Nora Roberts
Jewels of the Sun
“With great power comes great responsibility”
Nora Roberts
Legacy
“With her, the early bird doesn’t just catch the worm, but has time to sauté it with a nice plum sauce for breakfast.”
Nora Roberts
Blue Dahlia
“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.”
Nora Roberts
Jewels of the Sun
“You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“You can never read too many books, any kind.”
Nora Roberts
Whiskey Beach
“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon—though I really think dragons get a bad rap—kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch.”
Nora Roberts
Dark Witch
“You can’t know everything. Sometimes you have to trust. Sometimes you have to just feel.”
Nora Roberts
The Witness
“You can’t argue with math, Carter. You’ll always lose.”
Nora Roberts
Vision in White
“You couldn’t erase the past, or kill it, or wish it out of existence. Nor could you will away the present or change what was coming. We were all trapped in that cycle of time, just circling around the core of yesterdays. Sometimes those yesterdays were strong enough, willful enough, to suck you back no matter how hard you struggled.”
Nora Roberts
Carolina Moon
“You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
“You don’t treat your family like this. Like a goddamn convenience.”
Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue
“You don’t want to get in the habit of overusing the word “f*ck” as an adjective. You’ll miss the vast variety of its uses.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“You drag us all out of bed at two in the morning, you’ve got a reason.” “You kill somebody? Because if we’ve got to dispose of a body this time of night, we’d better get started.”
Nora Roberts
Chesapeake Blue
“You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or outguess it,”
Nora Roberts
Glory in Death
“You have to think of the positive, of the light, or the dark takes over.”
Nora Roberts
Year One
“You just pounded yourself into me with all the finesse of a sweaty celibate breaking fast with a rented sex droid.”
Nora Roberts
Rapture in Death
“You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“You paid off a million dollars since January?” Viola shook her head. “That must’ve been one holy hell of a yard sale.”
Nora Roberts
The Liar
“You put something behind you, it’s got its eyes on your back. I’d rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it’s going.”
Nora Roberts
The Obsession
“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.”
Nora Roberts
Sea Swept
“You’d understand, better than anyone, what it’s like to lose a father when you need one so badly.”
Nora Roberts
Divine Evil
“You’re well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation.”
Nora Roberts
Jewels of the Sun
“Your power doesn’t come from a void, girl. There is a source for the light, for all we are, for the air we breathe, the earth we stand on. Life is a gift, even to a blade of grass, and must be honored. We have been given more, and must honor the gift and the giver.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“Your spirit is yours as mine is mine. What you feel and know are yours and will never be a mirror exact of another’s. But respect for the spirit and the light, understanding of the dark, must be. And that’s shown in the tradition of ritual, in its words, its symbols, its tributes. “Your power doesn’t come from a void, girl. There is a source for the light, for all we are, for the air we breathe, the earth we stand on. Life is a gift, even to a blade of grass, and must be honored. We have been given more, and must honor the gift and the giver.”
Nora Roberts
Of Blood and Bone
“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.”
Nora Roberts
The Next Always
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