Quotes from Nora Roberts

I think things happen between people for a reason.

It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.

Love can kick your ass.

Hold on." Beckett shot out a hand, shoved Ryder back. "Are you saying Mom and Willy B are . . ." "That's what I'm saying. And they have been for a couple years now." "Fuck," Ryder muttered. "Don't say fuck when he's telling us about Mom and Willy B. I don't want that verb and those names together in my head.

Love is very brave.

You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.

Life's tough, Mia said with a shrug. You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

After weighing the pros and cons, I've decided sex with you would be mutually satisfying. You're attractive and pleasant. And clean. You kiss very well, and while I've found that's not always a reliable gauge for skill in bed, it often follows. If you're agreeable, we can finish dinner, I'll show you the greenhouse, then we can go in and have sex. I'm on birth control, but I would require you wear a condom.

Knowing isn't always believing.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

It's part of us, she said jerkily. How could I not want part of us? It's your baby.I'm carrying your baby and I love it so much already it terrifies me. Oh,Diana. He touched her then, gently, his hands on her face. You've let two weeks go by when we could have been terrified together.

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?

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Some prefer the wildness. Some the calm. There's enough of both in the world for everyone to have their choice. And enough time for any to change their mind.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

Some people refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most, because you're afraid someday you might lost it.

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

We're stuck now because you wheedled me into falling in love with you. So we get through whatever there is to get through." He kissed her. "With or without porn.

Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?

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.

Some beautiful things are meant to be sad so we can appreciate the beautiful things that aren't.

Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you're risking.

Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.

We all look. The lucky find. The wise accept.