Quotes from Nora Roberts

moods." "I can do that." "I'll let you go. Maybe if you see the lady—Naomi . . . If you see her, you could tell her I'm sorry about the trouble." "I'll do that. You take it easy." "It's the best way to take it." Chip smiled a little, then climbed into his truck. Since it was close, and he was running a bit late now, Xander got into his own truck and drove

Compromise isn't so painful if you're the one setting the terms.

And she never had, Doug mused, because war and politics go for the big view and trample all over the little guy. France during the Revolution or a steamy pit of a jungle in Nam. It never changed. He knew just what it felt like to be helpless. He wasn't going to feel that way ever again.

Loss can shake faith if you let it, and the dark gloats when faith seeps out with loss.

because when you lose someone, when you aren't able to save them, it hurts too much.

You'll be a boon to those grandchildren." "Will I?" "Oh, you will. You'll be patient with them, and sincerely interested in their doings and their thoughts. It's different with a parent, isn't it? They have to consider constantly whether to say yes or no, now or later. They have to discipline and enforce as well as love and tend. You'll only have to love, and they'll soak all that up like sponges.

Drunkenness is a voluntary madness.' Can't think right off who said that, but it rings true.

People like to say they've given somebody a choice when what they're really saying is 'do this my way.

Oppenheimer was right: 'I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I want you to marry me.

Unsophisticated', he said, cracking himself up again, 'but nubile'. Jesus, where do they get that stuff? Nubile. Try to contain your hilarity. Sophia sat behind the desk in her office in the villa and continued to study the models Kris had chosen for the ads. And I'd appreciate it if you'd warn me the next time you decide to add a mystery vintage to the selection. Last-minute candidate. And it was in the name of science.

If he goes after Sophia's father right after the divorce, then everybody knows he's whacked out over it. She'd spent some time analyzing it, running theories. Like if I want to get Theo for something, I sit back, wait, figure out how to hit him best. Then when I do, he's not expecting it and doesn't even know why he's getting it. She nodded. It's scientific, and lots more satisfying. The kid's a genius, Ty commented.

the reprint of that stunning photo of

I couldn't let it be the only place you really know. You're meeting different people now, people who come from different places, have other views, other goals. It's an opportunity for you to explore possibilities, potential, beyond right

Matherson was

Dreams aren't doing. Awake and take, or sleep on and show his sacrifice means nothing to you.

Some made the right choices, and made the best of their chances.

Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

God, I love men. She got up from the desk, walked to him, cupped his face in her hands and gave him a smacking kiss on the mouth. You're just so cute. One hard tug on her hand had her tumbling into his lap. An instant later her quick laugh was cut off, and her heart pounding. He hadn't kissed her this way before, with impatience and heat and hunger all mixed together in a near brutal assault. He hadn't kissed her as if he couldn't get enough. Would never get en

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.

And because the family business, the industry of

And it's you, Rowan, in the sunlight with preserved beauty at your back. You're the end of the goddamn rainbow. You're the answer before I even asked the question.

Fair enough. She lowered her knees, stared down as she buttoned her shirt again. Ty, I'm really sorry. I'd never do anything to upset Eli, or to cause trouble between the two of you. I know. He pushed to his feet and after a brief hesitation held out his hand to help her up. I want to make love with you. His already jangled system suffered. I think what we both want's pretty clear. I just don't know what we're going to do about it. I have to go after him. Yes.

is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. —Samuel Smiles