Quotes from Nora Roberts

Love, even when it's not real, can be deadly.

Well, I'd find sleeping with you a pleasant thing, but I'd prefer making love with you a few dozen times first.

If you don't go after what you want, you will never have it; If you don't ask, the answer is always no; If you don't step forward, you are always in the same place.

You couldn't be stabbed in the back if you faced your attackers.

She hadn't thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood. But she hadn't counted on despair. Somehow despair always made room for itself.

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple? Hadn't she mattered at all?

Is staying quiet an interrogation technique? It can be. It can be also called listening.

While the bells rang and echoed, she sat near the edge of the water. Here was peace, she thought, and joy. She would never, never take either for granted. She would remember to give something back every day. Even if it was just a heel of bread for the gulls. She would tend what she planted. She would remember to be kind, and never forget to offer a helping hand.

Advice never hurts, taking it often does

People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.

But sometimes you know one thing and feel another.

You don't cheat, steal, or lie. You don't misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don't spoil for a fight—which is a rule come to be in the last few years—but you don't walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don't give your word unless you intend to keep it.

I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you, Gulliver.

I'm loved. I'm wanted. Spirits are fed on this alone.

It's right he's paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Maybe some could say that changing her mind was part of her problem. But she didn't think so. If you never changed your mind, what was the point of having one? It seemed to Hayley she'd known too many people who were stuck with one way of thinking, and how could that be using the brain God gave you.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST

And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.   —WORDSWORTH

Setting her jaw, Whitney turned left. "This is a one-way street." He looked around helplessly. "Didn't you see the sign?" "I know it's a one-way street," she muttered and pressed harder on the gas. "It's also the quickest way across town." "Oh, Jesus.

Traveling,he thought.Yes, she was traveling-away from him just as fast as she could.Oh,you deserve it, Campbell, he berated himself. You deserve to have her skip out of your life without a backward glance.

A scan of the walls had the grin turning to a wince. Blue ribbons, medals, awards were all neatly framed and displayed.There were photographs of her in formal riding gear flying over jumps, smiling from the back of a horse or standing with her cheek pressed to her mount's neck. And in a thick frame was an Olympic medal. A silver. Well hell.We'll make that two portions of crow, he murmured.

Intellectually, she knew no one really died of a broken heart. Emotionally, she suspected some could.

Even now, the Lincoln was less than a half block behind. "Dammit. They just won't shake lose." "Oh yeah?" Whitney set her teeth and gave the mirror a quick check. She'd never been a gracious loser. "Watch this." Before Doug could draw a breath, she whipped the Mercedes around in a tight U-turn and headed dead-on for the Lincoln. He watched with a kind of fascinated dread. "Oh my God.