Nora Roberts Quotes

“Do you think the penis ever gets tired?"

Whose?

Anybody's. I mean anybody with one. Does the penis ever just think: for God's sake pal, give it a rest? Or is it all: Woo-who!! Here we go again!”
― J.D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

“You can't edit a blank page”
― Nora Roberts

“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.”
― J.D. Robb, Origin in Death

“Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie”
― Nora Roberts, The Heart of Devin MacKade

“What was that technique you were using on those bastards?"
"An ancient form called kicking ass.”
― Nora Roberts, Chasing Fire

“I'm not asking you for a second chance. I know better than that. But you've got no right to ask me to settle for sex then expect me to give up the one thing that's kept me going. I gave you up, now I'm taking what's left.”
“You didn't give me up,” she tossed back. “You never wanted me.”
“I never wanted anything the way I wanted you. I loved you.” He dragged her painfully to her toes. “I've always loved you. I cut my own heart out when I sent you away.”
― Nora Robertsrts, The Reef

“Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Shame

“People say to someone they love: I'd die for you. They don't expect to, of course, have no plans to. They may believe it, or mean it, or it may simply be an expression of devotion. But I know what it means now, I understand that impossible depth of emotion now. And I know you would die for me. You'd put my life before yours to protect me. And that terrifies me.”
― Nora Roberts, The Witness

“Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Shame

“You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going to work on you. Last time around, you threw yourself at me.” “I did no such thing.”
“Sure you did. But I can see I've got my work cut out for me this time. That's okay.” He skimmed his thumb over her knuckles before she jerked her hand free. “In fact, I think I'm going to enjoy it.”
“I don't know why I waste my time trying to mend fences with you. You're as arrogant as you ever were.”
“Just the way you like me, sweetheart.”
― Nora Roberts, The Reef

“Don't worry."... "We are right behind you."
"Notice," Lilah added with a smile, "the direction is behind.”
― Nora Roberts, Megan's Mate

“I need to write to be happy.”
― Nora Roberts

“I get pretty opinionated about books.”
― Nora Roberts, Red Lily

“People in hell want snowcones.”
― Nora Roberts

“It isn't easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.”
― Nora Roberts, Key of Light

“When you wait all your life for something and then you find it, it's like a miracle. All the parts inside you that've been on hold, they open up and start beating. You were okay before, you were good. You had purpose and direction and everything was just fine. But now it's more. You can't explain what the more is, but you know, if you lose it, you'll never be able to fill those empty spaces in just the same way again. Not ever. That's terrifying. I'm afraid that what's inside me is just a trick. That I'll wake up tomorrow and what's beating in here will have stopped. It'll be quiet again. I won't feel this way. I won't feel the way I've waited all my life to feel.

I can stand you not loving me back. There's always hope that you will. But I don't know if I can stand not loving you. It would be like...like having something stolen from inside of me. I don't know if I can handle going back to the way I was.”
― Nora Roberts, Key of Light

“Love’s a gift, Hayley, to be taken and received freely.”
― Nora Roberts, Red Lily

“I love you so much I`m barely able to do simple things like eat and sleep for thinking of you.I keep remembering how you looked with a shell held to your ear.You stood there with the water running from your hair,and your eyes the color of the sky and the sea, and i fell completely in love with you.I tried not to believe it, but i lost ground every time you got near me.When you left, it was like losing part of myself.I´m not complete anymore without you"

-Dillon Òbrian”
― Nora Roberts, Island of Flowers

“It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple?

Hadn't she mattered at all?”
― Nora Roberts

“She's been trained to put that moment off as long as she could stand and fight, to slash and burn, and take out as many as humanly possible. Because under the strength, the wit and the endless training was the knowledge that some day, some way, she wouldn't be fast enough, smart enough, lucky enough.

And the monster would win.”
― Dance of the Gods

“You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee.”
― Nora Roberts, The Liar

“She wasn’t the type to sit around ticking off the negatives of her life to see if she could make them outweigh the positives. If something was wrong, something was missing, she acted. Fix the problem and move ahead. Or if the problem couldn’t be fixed, she found the best way to live with it.”
― Nora Roberts, Red Lily

“Why do people always think being lovers shouldn’t be complicated?”
― Nora Roberts, Red Lily

“My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?”
― Nora Roberts

“...good things happened when you took steps, when you worked for them—and when you were lucky enough to find people who’d give you a chance to do your best.”
― Nora Roberts, Red Lily

“Love, she thought, should not come with such quick intensity. It should flow slowly, with tenderness and gentle feelings. It shouldn't stab like a sword, striking without warning, without mercy. How could one love what one could not understand?”
― Nora Roberts, Island of Flowers

“Love, the strong grip of it, steadied him.”
― Nora Roberts

“He wasn’t for her, and she knew it...

She wasn’t even sure she wanted anybody to be for her—right now, anyway.”
― Nora Roberts, Red Lily

“Love’s a lie, an illusion created by weak women and conniving men. An excuse for the middle class to breed and their betters to ignore so they can marry within their own station and build more wealth.”
― Nora Roberts