Quotes from Nora Roberts

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

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you

I've never been the one. Not for anybody." He closed the distance between them. "You'll get used to it." He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. "Why? Why am I the one?" "Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

Good fiction creates its own reality.

Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.

I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

You can't edit a blank page

Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You're not ready for it, but if you're lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you'd planned.

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.