Quotes from Nora Roberts

She didn't like to be read so easily but she couldn't help respecting someone who could.

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

I know you... I know if you love him there's something in him that makes him worthy of it.

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

Love gilds life

I could never seem to make the people I love understand what I need. I don't know why.

and while she hadn't been looking for a knight, she hadn't been searching out ogres, either.

How do I know you'll stay? How do I know, if I let myself love you, that one day there wouldn't be someone else, something else, and you'd just walk away? I can handle being alone now, I know how. But I can't-- I won't be left again.

There were only two men in her life she had ever really loved. It seemed neither of them could want her as she needed them to want her.

When you've had less than little in some things, you're grateful for even a spoonful of more.

Es como saber que eres el centro, lo único que él ve, que solo te ve a ti. Y eso es tan tierno y excitante... es terrorífico, increíble. Es saber que sólo existe una persona que sólo te ve a ti. Y que cuando te toca, no existe nadie más para él.

When you take what isn't offered freely, you have nothing.

Alan had still stopped her in her tracks with one of those slow, devastating kisses at her side door.He hadn't insisted on coming in.Shelby might have been grateful for that if she hadn't suspected it was just part of his planned siege.Confuse the enemy, assail her with doubts, leave her with her nerve ends tingling.Very clever strategy.

put your faith and your emotions into the wrong hands, and he didn't respect either.

Her heart was the one thing she'd always been sure of. Often she imagined of how it would be like to lose it, the thrill and the anxiety of the fall. She'd always wondered who it would be who would make everything inside her yearn. How they would be together--for in her dreams he loved her as well.

Power and privilege will always be attacked by smaller men who claim they have a cause. But the cause is always avarice. Whatever lofty excuse men use for war or revolution, it's always because they want the power another holds.

strolled around, here to see and do

Fate takes its own sweet time, but it always finds a way.

With blood and tears we spill our fears." She waved a hand over the cauldron, and the liquid within began to stir. "A pinch of salt times four to close and bolt the door. Weeds to bind, berries to blind. My children he will not see, and they will live safe and free. Pretty petals tinged with hate, scented sweet and so to bait. Boil it all in fire and smoke, and on this potion Cabhan chokes. When I call he comes to me, as I will, so mote it be.

For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don't hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.

When people break your heart, pride's all you've got left.

Avery McTavish - The Last Boyfriend Insanity...She knew how to organize and stay that way. But it seemed to her all her organization skills arrowed toward work and missed her life by a mile.

No matter how bad things are, and sometimes they were bad in our house, you want your mother to be there, to love you. And when she doesn't, you feel . . . less.

Tyler, I can recommend a good therapist. There's absolutely no shame in seeking help for mental instability. I'll keep it in mind. God knows I haven't been clear in the head since I got tangled up with you. We can make an appointment together, after you move in. I'm not moving in with you. Yes, you are.