Nora Roberts famous quotes

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

#Want #What You Want #Values

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

#Feelings #Too Much #Hell

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
-- Nora Roberts

#Party #Tragedy

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
-- Nora Roberts

#People #Progress #Work In Progress

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
-- Nora Roberts

#Motivation #Steps #Steps Forward

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

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
-- Nora Roberts

#Destiny #Choices #Turns

The wounded recognized the wounded.
-- Nora Roberts

#Wounded

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
-- Nora Roberts

#Confidence #Business #Answers

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
-- Nora Roberts

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
-- Nora Roberts

#Jobs #Writing #Making Time

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
-- Nora Roberts

#Motivation #Character #Writing

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.
-- Nora Roberts

#Hurt #Kings #Heart

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
-- Nora Roberts

#Dark #Light #Evil

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
-- Nora Roberts

#Inspirational #Motivational #Inspiring

You can't edit a blank page
-- Nora Roberts

#Pages #Blank Pages #Blank

Good fiction creates its own reality.
-- Nora Roberts

#Reality #Fiction

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

#Real #Hero #Men

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
-- Nora Roberts

#Reading #Relax #World

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.
-- Nora Roberts

#Strong #Real #Age

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.
-- Nora Roberts

#Light #Littles #Sun

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

#Summer #School #Vacation

I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.
-- Nora Roberts

#Hands #Saws #I Loved You

Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow
-- Nora Roberts

#Today #Favors #Tomorrow

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.
-- Nora Roberts

#Blow #Wind #Interesting

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.
-- Nora Roberts

#Dry #Tomorrow

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
-- Nora Roberts

#Games #Littles #Flawed

We all look. The lucky find.
-- Nora Roberts

#Lucky #Looks

Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.
-- Nora Roberts

#Dream #Rock And Roll #Play

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
-- Nora Roberts

#Love Is #Rocks #Enough

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
-- Nora Roberts

#Writing #Pages #Blank

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place
-- Nora Roberts

#People #Needs #Firsts

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
-- Nora Roberts

#Book #Effort #Slacking

You have to believe in it to get it...
-- Nora Roberts

#Believe

You can fix anything but a blank page.
-- Nora Roberts

#Writing #Pages #Blank

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
-- Nora Roberts

#Important #Made

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
-- Nora Roberts

#Inspirational #Dog #Pet

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleeping with Laurel—” “I’m not sleeping with Laurel. We’re dating.” “Right, and the two of you are just going to hold hands, admire the moon, and sing camp songs.” “For a while. Minus the singing.
-- Nora Roberts

#Song #Sleep #Moon

Don't give up on your own happy-evers.
-- Nora Roberts

#Giving Up #Giving

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
-- Nora Roberts

#Writing #Thinking #Stories

When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.
-- Nora Roberts

#People #Long #Way

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

#Men #Boys #Good Man

I need to write to be happy.
-- Nora Roberts

#Writing #Needs

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
-- Nora Roberts

#Fall #Stories #Pleasure

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

#Life Is Like #Wonderful #Moustache

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.
-- Nora Roberts

#Men #Ideas #Two

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.
-- Nora Roberts

#Distance #Color #Faces

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
-- Nora Roberts

#Breakfast #Woman Worth

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?
-- Nora Roberts

#Winning #Goal

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance.
-- Nora Roberts

#Romance #Lips #Eve Dallas

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.
-- Nora Roberts

#Oatmeal #Cookies #Reason

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

#Queens #Heart #Romance

Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?” she asked Glenna. “Witch.” “So, we’ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.
-- Nora Roberts

#Couple #Army #Fighting

God is dead and I am his replacement.
-- Nora Roberts

#Replacements

Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.
-- Nora Roberts

#Next #Conversation #Working It

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)
-- Nora Roberts

#Love You #Way #Sticks

Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
-- Nora Roberts

#Bird #Tunes #Love Bird

Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.
-- Nora Roberts

#White #Guy #Black

Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
-- Nora Roberts

#Screw You #Screws

I want to see you again." He stopped, took her face in his hands. "I need to see you again." Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. "Roarke, what's going on here?" "Lieutenant." He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. "indications are we're having a romance.
-- Nora Roberts

#Hands #Romance #Want

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.
-- Nora Roberts

#Mean #Fate #Blood

What other thing, Eve?" "I love you. Sometimes it makes my stomach hurt, but I kind of like it. Tired now, come to bed. Love you.
-- Nora Roberts

#Hurt #Love You #Tired

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
-- Nora Roberts

#Money #Shops

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.
-- Nora Roberts

#Lying #Naked #Tourists

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.
-- Nora Roberts

#Light #Tree #World

Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I'm not sure he'd let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.
-- Nora Roberts

#Risk #Care #Emotion

You--Roarke." Eyes watering, she reached for more tissue. "Jesus, Eve. Jesus Christ, you never sleep with anybody. And you're telling me you slept with Roarke?" "That's not precisely accurate. We didn't sleep.
-- Nora Roberts

#Jesus #Sleep #Eye

If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!
-- Nora Roberts

#Stupidity #Typical #Males

It's Major Ketchup in the bathroom with the laser scalpel." "Hmm." He sliced a delicately herbed spear of asparagus. "Obviously we were meant for each other as I can interpret that as you meaning something more like Colonel Mustard in the conservatory with the candlestick.
-- Nora Roberts

#Lasers #Asparagus #Bathroom

Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.
-- Nora Roberts

#Perfect

If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you the ‘let’s go back to my place’ signals. In that case—” “Don’t go there, Bob. Let’s just not go there.
-- Nora Roberts

#Wind #Bob #Assuming

The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies?" "Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.
-- Nora Roberts

#People #Barbie #Dolls

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

#Running #Suits #Doe

Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.
-- Nora Roberts

#Grief #Giving #Special

Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.
-- Nora Roberts

#Hurt #Might #Sometimes

Vending Machine: "This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day." Eve: "Up yours.
-- Nora Roberts

#May #Causes #Machines

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
-- Nora Roberts

#Men #Used

Dolls are like small dead people.
-- Nora Roberts

#People #Dead People

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.
-- Nora Roberts

#Responsible

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.
-- Nora Roberts

#Steps #Joints #Step Up

Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.
-- Nora Roberts

#Thinking #Hands #Nebraska

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.
-- Nora Roberts

#Morning #Thinking #Jumping

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.
-- Nora Roberts

#Falling In Love #Years #Found

Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells. “Hello, gorgeous.” She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. “Hey, handsome.
-- Nora Roberts

#Hurt #Couple #Climbing

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.
-- Nora Roberts

#Disappointment #Taken #Blow

Life--you have to live it as it comes.
-- Nora Roberts

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.
-- Nora Roberts

#Gone #Sickness

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.
-- Nora Roberts

#Beautiful #Believe #Together

I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?" "Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.
-- Nora Roberts

#Fall #Worry #Done

Oh thank you, Jesus." "It's Roarke." He tapped a finger on Eve's head. "You really shouldn't forget your own husband's name.
-- Nora Roberts

#Jesus #Husband #Names

You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.
-- Nora Roberts

#Praying #Diana #Deep Breath

My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.
-- Nora Roberts

#Block #Home #Fate

Do you always get away with the outrageous?" "Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?" "Don't waste your charm." "It's all right, I have more.
-- Nora Roberts

#Beautiful #Morning #Waste

Some romantic you are," Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back."Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet?" "They got dropped," Diana said flatly.
-- Nora Roberts

#Feet #Doors #Said

I'll walk you back,"he said with such apparently boundless amiability that Diana wanted to deck him. "That isn't necessary," she began as her hand was clasped by his. "I suppose I could walk ten paces behind or ten paces in front." As she let out a frustrated breath, Caine grinned down at her. "You're not angry because we exchanged a friendly kiss? After all, we're family." "There was nothing friendly or familial about it," Diana muttered. "No," he lifted her hand to his lips, then lightly nipped at her knuckle. "Maybe we should try again.
-- Nora Roberts

#Kissing #Hands #Frustrated

I changed your life.” She looked down at the peach they shared. “You changed min. I’m glad of it.” And back into his eyes. “Every day. I’m glad of it. I’d like a pond, and maybe something to sit on so we could watch the creepy, interesting fish.” “That would suit me very well.” She linked her arms around his neck, laid her cheek on his. Love finds a way, she thought.
-- Nora Roberts

#Eye #Interesting #Creepy

Why?” Eve leaned forward. “Sincerely, I’ve always wanted to know why anyone buys multiple pairs of shoes at a time.” “If I have to explain it, the joy is lost.
-- Nora Roberts

#Shoes #Joy #Pairs

Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.
-- Nora Roberts

#Ego #Heavy #Justin

Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.
-- Nora Roberts

#Butterfly #Thinking #Giving

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.
-- Nora Roberts

#Memories #Nice #Play