Quotes from Nora Roberts

She stared at him. You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically? Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life.

You can fix a bad page. You can't fix a blank one.

Can't choose where you come from, Seth. My boys and you know that better than anyone. But you can choose where you end up, and how you get there.

I'd have given you everything I had. If you'd needed more, I'd have found it, and given you that. It's the way I love. It's the only way I know how.

The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.

Coming from something doesn't make it what you are.

Love shouldn't be hard." "There I think you're wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it's not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost.

It's only thunder. It just startled me, she said, her eyes on his. I'm not afraid of storms.' Let's see. Still, he moved slowly, taking his time as much to prolong this new moment as to gauge her reaction. He laid his hands on her hips as the rain beat and splashed, sliding them up her body, smooth and easy as he lowered his head, paused-one long breath-then fit his mouth to hers.

When we destroy it. She spoke clearly now, steadily now. If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it.

Motivation matters,' he said again, 'because why you do something connects to how you do it, who you do it to, or for. And maybe what you see at the end of it-if you're looking that far.'

Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step.

Don't let the fear and suspicion of the brutal and ignorant make you doubt yourself.

I get pretty opinionated about books.

Change--savor the cool, fresh flavor of it.

Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. What's the point? You're the point, son. Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. You're the point.

He matters to me, too. I know he does. He didn't. Phillip pulled out his hammer to nail the laps. Not as much as he did to you. Not enough. It's different now. I know that, too. For the next few minutes they worked in tandem, without words. You stood up for him anyway, Cam added when the plank was in place. Even when he didn't matter enough. I did it for Dad. We all did it for Dad. Now we're doing it for Seth.

Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

He wouldn't just be facing her, he thought with genuine, back-sweating fear, but all of them. The four of them, with Mrs. Grady for backup. They'd roast his balls.

Philip ripped at the wrapper of the plain, inadequately thin Hershey bar. No almonds. I don't care for nuts. You proved that when you slammed your foot between the legs of your friend this evening.

Women, they don't know what they're missing when it comes when it comes to the courageous comedy of the Three Stooges. Yes, yes, we do know what we're missing. We miss it on purpose. Conversation between Flynn and Mallory in The Key of Light

In my world, the self-righteous are often the ones sneaking around getting blow jobs before they go home to the wives and kiddies.

everyone knows that while we have to go on, we can never, should never, forget.

Um ano é um século quando se espera o amor.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.