Quotes from Nora Roberts

He stayed nearly an hour. Clare would have kissed him again just for the fact he'd given her kids such a great time. He'd never seemed bored or annoyed with a conversation dominated by superheroes, their powers, their partners, their foes.

He preferred the term study to office, as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. —William Shakespeare

could never explain it to anyone, the way a fear can live inside you. The way it dictates how you think and how you act, what you say, what you don't dare say.

A lot of people don't have fond memories of high school. It's often a war of politics and personalities, set off by the cannon fire of hormones.

Friends are friends whenever you make them.

Why stop now? Seduce me, Brian.I dare you. I've always found it hard to turn aside a dare.

It's always seemed to me things are more exciting when you're not looking and you find them.

Pentru asta existau fotografii. Totul se schimb?, aÅŸa c? trebuie s? imortalizezi ceea ce a fost. Înainte ca zua de mâine s? ia totul.

My greatest fear has always been to make a mistake.' 'Perhaps your greatest fear is your greatest mistake.

Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.

I'll want you just as much tomorrow, he murmured, stroking her hair. And a year from tomorrow. I can promise to wait to ask you again, Shelby, but I can't promise to wait until you're ready to answer.

Politics. It's for idiots and bad actors.

I don't want to marry her, I just want to have a nice, civilized dinner with her. Then bounce on her, Seth finished. Christ. He gets that from you, Philip accused Cam. He came that way, Cam wrapped an arm around Seth's neck. Didn't you, brat? The panic didn't come now, as it used to whenever Seth was touched or held. Instead he wriggled and grinned.

It was different with Seth, Anna went on. Right from the first minute, everything about him pulled at me. I couldn't stop it. I tried, but I couldn't. I've thought about that, and I believe, sincerely, that my feelings for him were there, just there, even before I met him. We were meant to be part of each other's lives. He was meant to be part of this family, and this family was meant to be mine.

I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.

There's just no love like the love of a mother for a child, no matter how that child comes into their life, and no loss or grief to match it.

Love, even when pledged, isn't enough.

I don't need you by my side. But I want you there. Very much want you there. That, I think, says more. Means more. He took the hand she held out to him. We'll go down. James should be here soon

God I'm crazy about him. It's early yet for crazy isn't it? Don't you know when you know? Five minutes, five years - how does that change what you know? I wanted to know with the man I was with before. I tried to know. I liked him, and I was comfortable with him. I told myself, 'Give it more time', but time didn't change anything. Not for either of us as it turned out.

Because he's not some perfect fantasy. He's flawed and you understand that. It means you've fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be.

And tis' my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes.

What I'm saying—I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it's important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.

It's Salvation. When Jen told me I had a vision. A vision Rena. I think I saw the blessed mother smiling and she was hold ing a loofa. [In regards to moving out of dorms and having three bathrooms between 4 roomates]