Quotes from Nora Roberts

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.

You changed what was between us. You took the step, and I didn't see it coming. I can't be sorry for that when I'm so damn grateful for it. I don't know if you were always the one, he said again. But I know you're the one now, and I know you're going to be the one tomorrow, and next month, next year. And you're going to be the one for the rest of my life.

I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.

The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.

Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.

The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.

What was your secret? That brought another smile. Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance

Men are boys in bigger packages.

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

Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.

You are wise as well as short. I can also break bricks with my bare hands. That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.

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

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

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.

Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?

Like he cared about a lot of stupid settlers and Indians and soldiers who hung around out here before he was even born. Hell, before his prehistoric grandparents had been born. Who gave a shit about Crazy Horse and Sitting Bullshit. He cared about X-Men and the box scores.

Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.

Why do I find it irresistible when you tell me to go to hell so politely?

I can't say I cared much for you when I first came back. There's that crappy attitude of yours, and you're ugly, but you kind of grow on a guy. Immensely cheered, Seth snickered. You're uglier. I'm bigger, I'm entitled. So I guess I'll hang around to see if you get any prettier as time goes on. I didn't really want you to go, Seth said under his breath after a long moment. It was the closest he could get to speaking his heart. I know.

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

Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.

Being dead didn't make Jack Mercy any less of a son of a bitch

That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me. Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking. They're wise to fear me.