Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”

— Nora Roberts

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2. “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

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3. “There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”

— Nora Roberts

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4. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.”

— Nora Roberts

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5. “If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

— Nora Roberts

6. “A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don’t have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren’t going to finish a book.”

— Nora Roberts

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7. “Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

— Nora Roberts

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8. “The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can’t fix a blank one.”

— Nora Roberts

9. “You can fix anything but a blank page.”

— Nora Roberts

10. “Things have a way of falling into place.”

— Nora Roberts

11. “I said, you’re the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.”

— Nora Roberts

12. “Love without trust? It’s not love at all.”

— Nora Roberts

13. “People and relationships never stop being a work in progress.”

— Nora Roberts

14. “You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.”

— Nora Roberts

15. “Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.”

— Nora Roberts

16. “Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there’s something in the damn glass, drink it.”

— Nora Roberts

17. “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

18. “We make destiny with every turn, every choice.”

— Nora Roberts

19. “What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal?”

— Nora Roberts

20. “If something isn’t special, then it’s ordinary.”

— Nora Roberts

21. “Winning can be addictive.”

— Nora Roberts

22. “Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You’re so gorgeous. You’re so beautiful.”

— Nora Roberts

23. “I know you love me, but I don’t know why. I look at you and I just can’t get why it’s me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn’t be me, and I think it’d kill me if you ever figured that out.”

— Nora Roberts

24. “I guess money can’t buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”

— Nora Roberts

25. “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

26. “Life is full of circles.”

— Nora Roberts

27. “Two women can’t share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It’s got to be one woman’s kitchen.”

— Nora Roberts

28. “It’s hard to resist a bad boy who’s a good man.”

— Nora Roberts

29. “I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I’d never take anything for granted again.”

— Nora Roberts

30. “When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won.”

— Nora Roberts

31. “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”

— Nora Roberts

32. “To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. – WINSTON CHURCHILL.”

— Nora Roberts

33. “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

34. “Nature will kill you without a minute’s thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn’t make her any less beautiful.”

— Nora Roberts

35. “Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.”

— Nora Roberts

36. “We make our own choices and we’re each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven’t the right to claim either from someone else.”

— Nora Roberts

37. “We’re all victims of what life deals out. It’s how we handle it that’s important.”

— Nora Roberts

38. “Love has no end, no borders, no limits. The more you give, the more there is.”

— Nora Roberts

39. “Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you’re afraid some day you might lose it.”

— Nora Roberts

40. “The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn’t deserve to die like that.”

— Nora Roberts

41. “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

42. “When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.”

— Nora Roberts

43. “Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

45. “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.”

— Nora Roberts

46. “Courage comes in different forms. There’s strength – that’s the muscle. But love’s the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.”

— Nora Roberts

47. “Pretending the past doesn’t exist is as bad as living in it.”

— Nora Roberts

48. “You’re the love of my life. I don’t care how corny that sounds. You’re the start of it, and the end of it. And you’re the best of it.”

— Nora Roberts

49. “I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.”

— Nora Roberts

50. “Love is very funny business. And sex – well, let’s face it, sex is hysterical.”

— Nora Roberts