Quotes from Nora Roberts

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating. Park benches are irritating to you in some moods. Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.

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.

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.

He turned his head, kissed the top of her head. I love you. It sounds lovely in bed, in the dark, when everything's quiet. Because it's true. And it'll be true in the morning.

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

After hell comes heaven.

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.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

I want you more than I should, she heard herself say. I have you less than I want.

Can you stand a little closer? Hmm? You smell good. I like to smell you.

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.

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

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

I'll give you everything I've got, and if you need more, I'll find it and give it to you.

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.

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.

I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room— Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP , go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope.

When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That's something you should remember.

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.

It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.