Quotes from Nora Roberts

Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

It never hurts to flirt. And you've made a career of it. That's just to balance your ice princess routine. 'Oh hello, Chad. Sarah put a distant look in her eye and gracefully lifted a hand. Keeley's comment was short and rude and made Sarah giggle. Dignity isn't a flaw, Keeley insisted, even as her own lips twitched. You could use a little. You've got plenty for both of us.

It shows who we are. We're making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane. Yeah, we're okay. They couldn't take who we are away from us. We're who we are despite them.

The socializing hadn't been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn't say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.

My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?

One of the best things about dogs, to Fiona's mind, was their absolute joy in welcoming you home, whether you'd been gone for five minutes or five days. There lay unconditional and boundless love.

From fame to infamy is a beaten road. —FRANCIS QUARLES All the world doth practice stage-playing. —MONTAIGNE

When you try to make somebody feel stupid when they ask a question, you're the stupid one.

You're thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It'll amaze you.

No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken

Girls, to her mind, suffered an agony of suspense and an embarrassing passivity during prom season.

I don't get treadmills. You get all sweaty and go nowhere. Now, sex? You get all sweaty and go everywhere." He lifted his head to look at her. "Now I'm going to think about sex whenever I'm on the treadmill." "You're welcome.

A FINE THING IT WAS TO GIVE SOMEONE THE LINGERING glow of memories.

Everyone feels hemmed in from time to time, no matter where they live." She laid a hand on his thigh. "When I'm feeling that way, I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me that nothing is forever. No matter how bad, or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level." "'All things change; nothing perishes,'" he mumbled.

Love isn't finite, Raylan. It always makes more room.

She was a fine woman, and lived a good and long life. But it's left to us still living to miss those who aren't.

He'd learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic.

He worked for two hours, perfecting the storyline-the situation, the setup, the punchline.After changing her tire and practicing macho lines to impress her, Macintosh ended up with five dollars, a stutter, and soaked shoes as Veronica zoomed out of his life.

Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.

La madre que lo parió! —masculló, pero como estaba decidido a pillarlo por sorpresa, optó por imitar su tono alegre—. Ven, Tiburón, ven, cabroncete. Aquí, chico, ven, engendro del demonio...

of you, you're mine, and that's a gift I'll always treasure. Every one of you is a gift to me, a blend of friends and family that's stronger and truer and brighter than anything I ever imagined having. So, to all of us, together.

If you look for it, you can find something good about anybody.

I-I have to go, she began, then bit her lip as she realized she was stuttering again-a habit she seemed to have developed in the past twenty-four hours.Forgetting her sketch pad, she stepped off the rock and prepared to make an undignified dash for her car. In the next instant she was whirled around. His face was set, his breathing unsteady. I was wrong. His voice filled her head, emptying it of everything else. I have a great deal of trouble resisting you.

And Grant Campbell was about to take a short walk off a high cliff.