Quotes from Nora Roberts

...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.

Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.

I love you. I don't know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart's lost to you, and I wouldn't have it another way. You're what I want, all there is of you.

Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?

I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.

Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie

I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy

I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.

I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Not everyone who loves music can play the tune.Estelle

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)

And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.

Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many. I never thought about it quite that way. Well, you're a man. She gave his knee a friendly pat.

A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure.