Quotes from Nora Roberts

You bet. But he just leaned down, held on. Scared me, he murmured against her cheek. Scared hell out of me, Sophie. Hearing that, knowing that, had her heart making that same little leap. It's okay now. You're not really a bastard.

grandmother's, and even as her lips curved

So she hadn't been smart with her money, Malory admitted with a windy sigh. She didn't see the point of letting it lie in some bank when it could be turned into something lovely to look at or to wear. Until it was used, money was just paper. Malory tended to use a great deal of paper.

a single cleaning service to be had on a Friday afternoon. He tackled the kitchen first with the bottle of Top Job he'd borrowed from a neighbor. The house smelled like a pine forest, but it couldn't be helped. Then Michael lured

Love, whatever the time, whatever the obstacles, lasts.

You'd know all about the process—the tests, the interviews with the police, the counselors, the lawyers. It's horrible, that reliving of it, and I was angry to be viewed as a victim.

She was, at sixteen years, eight months and twenty-one days, a product of her mother's meticulous and detailed agenda. That was about to change.

Don't apologize. It's better to see and know you're a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.

ByÅ'a mieszaninÄ… szczerych prób i ?ycia w kÅ'amstwie i oszustwie.

You don't know me. If I haven't figured myself out yet, you can't know me.

Until I learned to accept I was a victim, but I didn't have to stay one. In

coffeepot, Glenna gave Blair's arm an absent stroke. "Give you a

Love costs nothing. I wonder at those who can't feel it, or won't give or take it. Ah well, we've more than enough to spare, don't we?

It's discouraging not to be good at what you've chosen as your life's work. Your life is far from done, so you've more than time enough to choose again. And I'll wager you were better at it than you decided to believe.

Put something on, Tyler ordered. And lock the doors. I'll check it out. No, you won't. She was already marching to her closet. We'll check it out. Nobody pushes me around, she said as she dragged on a sweater and pants. Nobody.

It's easier to know what you're not than what you are.

have read my mind." As she moved to the coffeepot, Glenna gave Blair's arm an absent stroke. "Give you a hand?" "No, I got this. You've been taking the lion's

You were worried about me. It was a brief moment of insanity. It's passed.

Their life could be made up of thousands of simple moments. And still never be ordinary.

It's an unfortunate by-product of a patriarchal society that women are deemed sluttish or cheap for engaging in sex for pleasure while men are considered vital. Virginity shouldn't be a prize to be won, or withheld. The hymen has no rewarding properties, grants no powers. Women should—no, must—be allowed to pursue their own sexual gratification, whether or not procreation is the goal or the relationship a monogamous one, just as a man is free to do so.

And sooner or later, I'll make her pay for it. And I'll hold your coat. In the meantime, go to bed

taking it any further, I wouldn't now." "Wouldn't you?

it, at least for a while.

She smiled away the bellman's offer to fetch her ice, or anything she might wish. She only wanted solitude again. The airports, the plane