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Quotes About Freedom

There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.
~ Nora Roberts
I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.
~ Nora Roberts
Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?
~ Nora Roberts
You have to unhook your seat belt. That's not true. I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.
~ Nora Roberts
Playing with your mind, that's what she's about." Carrick waved a hand, then tossed the little star that clung to his fingertips out over the water, where it trailed silver light. "Cooking you a meal, making everything, herself included, pretty for you. A more devious female I've never known. You're well shed of her.
~ Nora Roberts
Love's a gift, Hayley, to be taken and received freely.
~ Nora Roberts
As long as there's choice, the end is never set.
~ Nora Roberts
He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know.
~ Nora Roberts
We are eating like adults. Kids have to eat when and what they're told. We get to eat when and what we want. Because we're adults.
~ Nora Roberts
Lived their lives as they chose to live. That's a real victory, don't you think, living as you choose to live?
~ Nora Roberts
From this day forward, she thought, this was home. One she'd make herself, for herself. This was her life, one she'd live as she wanted. If that wasn't magick, what was?
~ Nora Roberts
Look, pal, he who goes to the store buys what he damn well pleases. That's a new rule around here.
~ Nora Roberts
Love's a gift, and can certainly be refused. Refusing doesn't destroy the gift, it simply puts it aside. You're free to do that. I'm not expecting a gift in return. Take what's offered, especially when it's offered so generously and without expectations.
~ Nora Roberts
Sundays were knowing absolutely nothing had to be done, and countless things could be.
~ Nora Roberts
There's a wilderness here. She knew it lived inside her.
~ Nora Roberts
I should be home by midnight. Dad, I need a car. Uh-huh. And I need a villa in the south of France. Go figure. Lights out at eleven, he added as he turned away. I've got to have wheels
~ Nora Roberts
Amor, pensó, entregado de forma libre, aceptado de forma voluntaria. No había magia más potente.
~ Nora Roberts
I don't believe in demons, That isn't a lie. But I have seen what was once the unbelievable. I've seen the beauty and the wonder of it. I believe what we've termed the uncanny - there is light and dark in them, as there is light and dark in all of us - will also be swept up and detained and tested. And, I fear, that what H5N1-X leaves us, all of us, will not destroy us, but the fear and violence it breeds in those of us who give in to it - the forced restrictions on freedom - could.
~ Nora Roberts
That married and dead aren't the same. We were married sixty-seven years before he passed, and the both of us were free to look all we wanted. Touching, now? That's when married and dead are the same.
~ Nora Roberts
They could be trained and tended. But they were of the wild, and the wild they needed for their spirit.
~ Nora Roberts
You only have to be alone when you want to be alone.
~ Nora Roberts
It was a concept that dazzled her. Doing what she wanted when she wanted, at her own pace and in her own way.
~ Nora Roberts
You're a good girl, Jude, but you don't have to be good all the time.
~ Nora Roberts
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.
~ Nora Roberts