Quotes from Nora Roberts

Doc is getting ready to do a Pap-smear on Reece)) Looks healthy, Doc commented. Good, because it hasn't been getting any exercise in quite a while. When she heard Willow smother a laugh, Reece just closed her eyes. She had to remember some old saying about being careful of thoughts. They become words.

The state calls Paul Winthrop to the stand. ... Paul answered the opening questions briefly, weighing his words, his eyes on Julia's. Would you tell the court the nature of your relationship with Miss Summers? I'm in love with Miss Summers. The faintest of smiles touched his lips. Completely in love with Miss Summers.

Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.

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.

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.

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

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

He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again. Kathy sighed. I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude? No. She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? No one special. If they're not special, what would the point be?

Do you think I'd leave you alone when you're twisted up like this? I tell you I love you, and it feels like I broke your heart. No one has ever said that to me. In my life, no one's ever said those words to me. I'm making you a promise right here that you'll hear them from me every day.

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

Some romantic you are, Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back.Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet? They got dropped, Diana said flatly.

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You're not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

It's about us. It's about trust.

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.

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.

Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb. Aplomb It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination. That also sounded polite. I was raised well.

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

What's an adventure if you know all the steps before you take them?

The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.

The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.

Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?

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.

It might be fun. Love's supposed to be. Laura smiled. When it's not hell.

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