Quotes from Nora Roberts

Still lost? This time Grant tugged her against him and gave her a hard kiss. Apparently you've survived a month of matrimony, but you're still skinny. And compliments still roll trippingly off your tongue, she retorted, drawing back. After a moment she laughed and hugged him fiercely. Damn,I hate to say it out loud,but it's good to see you.

BY THE TIME SHE WAS EIGHT, MACKENSIE ELLIOT HAD BEEN married fourteen times. She'd married each of her three best friends—as both bride and groom—her best friend's brother (under his protest), two dogs, three cats, and a rabbit. She'd served at countless other weddings as maid of honor, bridesmaid, groomsman, best man, and officiant.

We'll have a sauna first. Oh,will we? Yeah. He hooked a hand in the waistband of her trousers and drew her closer. Open the pores a bit. In a quick move, he unhooked them, then drew them over her hips. Since you insist. Shelby began undoing his tie. Have you noticed, Senator, that most of the time you wear a great many more clothes than I? As a matter of fact... He slipped his hands under her blouse and found her. I have.

Sundays were knowing absolutely nothing had to be done, and countless things could be.

There's a wilderness here. She knew it lived inside her.

I love you. I'm in love with you. She heard absolutely nothing for ten full seconds. And when he did speak, she caught the faintest trace of fear mixed in with the annoyance. Hell. No good deed goes unpunished.

What's wrong with standing in the same place if it's a good place?" "Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone. Honey, alone and lonely share the same root.

When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right.

Nature's a bitch and she barely tolerates us.

He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets? It was, he often though, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.

You look great, Senator.I think I could get used to seeing you wet and naked. Lazily she dipped back to float. If you ever decide to ditch politics, I imagine you could have a successful career as a lifeguard at a nude beach. It's always good to have something to fall back on.

I should be home by midnight. Dad, I need a car. Uh-huh. And I need a villa in the south of France. Go figure. Lights out at eleven, he added as he turned away. I've got to have wheels

Yo te maldigo a ti y a todos los de tu sangre. Te aplastaré con mis puños, exprimiré lo que eres en un cáliz de plata y beberé de él.

I'm going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I did this backwards because first I should've said - I should've said, I love you, Ella. I love you.

Well, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.

He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to push to nudge them into opening their wallets? It was, he often thought, an accepted, creative, even expected twist on picking those wallets. For a man who had spent the first half of his life as a thief, it was the perfect career.

Fire doesn't only destroy, Rowan. Sometimes it creates. The best of it creates, and when love's a fire, whether it's bright or a steady glow, hot or warm, it creates. It makes you better than you were without it.

You never text good night." "It's not a real good one when you're somewhere else.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

When you could dissect something and find all the answers, you could find all the wrong ones

pleasure had been so huge, she'd had to go into the bathroom, close herself in a stall and cry a little. The seeds of the rebellion had been planted that day, she supposed, or maybe they'd always been there, dormant, and the fat and salt had awakened them. But she could feel them, actually feel them, sprouting in her belly now. "Your plans changed, Mother. It doesn't follow that mine have to change with them." Susan took a moment to precisely place

In every world, I think, all who can must learn and remember and stand against those who never do.