Quotes from Nora Roberts

Oh, God. God, isn't that perfect? He's Dad. He's Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you don't even know you've had your shields hacked down until you're defenseless. It's the type. You're not in love with a type, you're in love with a man, Penny corrected. Or you're not.

Stop thinking of yourself as a reflection of what a man saw in you, andbe. I asked you if it bothered you that people will talk. I wish you'd said the hell with people. Let them talk. It's time you gave them something to talk about.

Education's supposed to be more than learning--leastways that's how we were taught. It's supposed to help build your character and help teach you how to get on in the world. If it tells you that you get booted for doing what you had to do, for standing up for yourself, then something's wrong with the system.

Sometimes people say I think too much. Maybe it's true. If it is, it's because I feel too much.

You're not beautiful, he said in a quiet statement that made her brow knit. Why do you look beautiful when you're not?

Some women, he thought, had the power to turn a man in the opposite direction from what he wanted. It seemed his fate to run up against them. And, damn it, to care.

Don't mix up who I am and what I am," she told him quietly. "You have to be honest with me, or the rest of it means nothing.

Sweet magnetic Jesus on the dashboard. On the table?'

Love was decidedly uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unwelcome.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

Why is it men think beating on each other fixes anything?' 'Why do women think eating chocolate does? It's the nature of the beast.

I don't think you ever learn everything about anyone, no matter how long you know them, or how well. There's always another pocket somewhere.

We're going to be rich. Huh? Forgot. You're already rich. I'm going to be rich, and you'll be richer okay I'm serious. We've just discover a non-fail motivation for exercise. Hot jungle sex. We'll be Bill Gates rich. We'll write a book. There'll be DVDs and infomercials. America, then the world, will become buff and sexually satisfied. And they'll have us to thank.

Sometimes we hate her," Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. "But it's a hare based on love.

I have to get used to it—to her, but she's put a light in him so I think I'm going to be a fan. You're a stand-up gal, Swede. If she screws him up, I'll peel the skin off her ass with a dull razor blade.

Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.

Love's the glue. Use it right, it can fix most anything.

You're seriously talking about a ghost. This building - or parts of it - has been here for two and a half centuries. It would strike me odder if there wasn't a ghost. Not everything, everyone, leaves.

It was amazing, really, just how much pain the human heart could hold.

Hand me a shovel, he thought. I'm getting tired of digging this hole for myself with my bare hands. -Ben

When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.

Falling in love, that's the roller coaster, the ups and downs, the thrills. Being in love, that's the carousel—around and around with music playing. But staying in love… She sighed, remembering. That's the maze, Anna. There are all the twists and turns and dead ends. You have to keep going, keep trusting.

You've got to take a test? I love tests. His eyes actually lit up. Do you need a study buddy? And yes, I capitalize the N in nerd.

We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan. And as able to make something strong between us.