Quotes from Nora Roberts

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

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

Things have a way of falling into place.

You love tests? Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

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.

You did that on purpose. Did what on purpose? Wore the don't-touch suit and the sex goddess perfume at the same time just to drive me crazy. Listen to the suit, Quinn. Dream about the perfume.

Falling in love has nothing to do with time. It can take a year, or an instant. It happens when its ready to happen.

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

It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with.

Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it.

It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life

Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.

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.

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?

I want lots and lots of sex. You really are the woman of my dreams. First round, wet shower sex, after we scrape off a few layers of the Alaskan tundra, then a short and satisfying lunch break. Then a second round of make-the-mattress-sing sex. I feel a tear of gratitude and awe forming in the corner of my eyes. Don't think less of me.

Body adornments show that we're aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.

He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war? Beaver, Peter told him. I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.

You said you survived, Anna, but you didn't. You triumphed. Everything about you is a testament to courage and strength. When she stared at him, obviously stunned, he smiled a little. You didn't get either from a social worker or a counselor. They just helped you figure out how to use it. I figure you got it from your mother. She must have been a hell of a woman. She was, Anna murmured, near tears again. So are you.

Told you not to tell her." "That's not how I work things. That's not how you build a relationship." "Build a relationship." Ryder snorted as he sent the drill whirling again. "You've been reading again." "Blow me.

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.

She's the light. Before, you can fumble around in the dark or manage in the dim. You don't even know it's dim because that's the way it's always been. But then, she's the light. Everything changes. If the light shuts off, or worse, you're stupid enough to shut it off yourself, it's a hell of a lot darker than before.

Do you always get away with the outrageous? Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning? Don't waste your charm. It's all right, I have more.

Sometimes it's all you can do," he murmured. "Fight back; run wild, until you get it all out." "Sometimes there is nothing to fight and nowhere to run.