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Quotes About Challenges

If you don't want something, it's hard—in the movie business, especially.
~ Nora Ephron
Bernice Gera turned out to be only human, after all, which is not a luxury pioneers are allowed.
~ Nora Ephron
We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.
~ Nora Roberts
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
~ Nora Roberts
Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it
~ Nora Roberts
It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with.
~ Nora Roberts
Life's tough, Mia said with a shrug. You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.
~ Nora Roberts
Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.
~ Nora Roberts
Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.
~ Nora Roberts
There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.
~ Nora Roberts
The kid's driving me bat-shit, Cam complained as he stalked into the kitchen. You can't say boo to him without him squaring up for a fight. Mm-hmm. Argumentative, smart-mouthed, troublemaker. Must be like looking in a mirror. Like hell. Don't know what I was thinking of. You're such a peaceable soul.
~ Nora Roberts
It's life, and it's messy, and it breaks down.
~ Nora Roberts
Love,' she murmured as she washed. 'Nobody inside it knows the hell how to handle it.
~ Nora Roberts
You can fix a bad page. You can't fix a blank one.
~ Nora Roberts
Love shouldn't be hard." "There I think you're wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it's not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost.
~ Nora Roberts
Love was decidedly uncomfortable, unpredictable, and unwelcome.
~ Nora Roberts
Falling in love, that's the roller coaster, the ups and downs, the thrills. Being in love, that's the carousel—around and around with music playing. But staying in love… She sighed, remembering. That's the maze, Anna. There are all the twists and turns and dead ends. You have to keep going, keep trusting.
~ Nora Roberts
There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.
~ Nora Roberts
A lot of people don't have fond memories of high school. It's often a war of politics and personalities, set off by the cannon fire of hormones.
~ Nora Roberts
Love, even when pledged, isn't enough.
~ Nora Roberts
Hard isn't hard if you've got a strong back and a purpose.
~ Nora Roberts
Laura, there aren't any guarantees. You certainly know that. Yes, you could be hurt. You could also be happy. Or you could just get your oil checked.
~ Nora Roberts
Why do people always think being lovers shouldn't be complicated?
~ Nora Roberts
Why did they make babies so damn small? And loud. Surely better arrangements could be made for the propagation of the human race.
~ Nora Roberts