Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “It’s harsh. There’s enough harsh in the world. I’m going to try a little optimism for a change.”

— Nora Roberts

452. “There are countless places absolutely amazing in Ireland, because it respects its history – its long and layered history – and those who came before, what they did, how they lived and died. That’s why you can feel them here, if you let yourself, and other places in the world are voids because in those places everything’s about what’s next, and nobody much cares about what was.”

— Nora Roberts

453. “The other two of her three kids stood on the covered front porch, tails wagging, feet dancing. One of the best things about dogs, to Fiona’s mind, was their absolute joy in welcoming you home, whether you’d been gone for five minutes or five days. There lay unconditional and boundless love.”

— Nora Roberts

454. “As far as she could see, the nuns must be full of impure thoughts or else they wouldn’t be so sure everyone else had them.”

— Nora Roberts

455. “She knew I was coming to see you, so I don’t think she’ll be surprised.”

— Nora Roberts

456. “Organized religion has an unfortunate history of fostering violence.”

— Nora Roberts

457. “If I were writing a book I’d talk about it all the time, to everyone. People would start to avoid me, so I’d seek out complete strangers and talk about it until they, too, avoided me.”

— Nora Roberts

458. “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

459. “You have a chance and a choice to be what you are. To build on all that came before, reach for what comes next. To fail, well, greatness rises from first failures.”

— Nora Roberts

460. “A place it was – or was meant to be – for prayer and good works and contemplation. But there are always some, aren’t there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.”

— Nora Roberts

461. “Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.”

— Nora Roberts

462. “Love isn’t finite, Raylan. It always makes more room.”

— Nora Roberts

463. “How do I know you’ll stay? How do I know, if I let myself love you, that one day there wouldn’t be someone else, something else, and you’d just walk away? I can handle being alone now, I know how. But I can’t – I won’t be left again.”

— Nora Roberts

464. “I don’t know if it helps, but I know when we lost Dad, we were all just numb, I guess. Just taking a step at a time dealing with all the horrible, practical things you have to deal with. Eventually you find yourself in another place. Some of it’s familiar, some of it’s not. You make something else out of it, and you know you couldn’t have without the person you lost.”

— Nora Roberts

465. “But sometimes you know one thing and feel another.”

— Nora Roberts

466. “I think there’s a reason you moved in next door. I think there’s a reason I saw you all those years ago, but didn’t meet you until now. I don’t think I was ready for you until now.”

— Nora Roberts

467. “Fire doesn’t only destroy, Rowan. Sometimes it creates. The best of it creates, and when love’s a fire, whether it’s bright or a steady glow, hot or warm, it creates. It makes you better than you were without it.”

— Nora Roberts

468. “Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love.”

— Nora Roberts

469. “There’s a wilderness here. She knew it lived inside her.”

— Nora Roberts

470. “The words weren’t so important, Aidan thought. It was just so soothing to listen to her.”

— Nora Roberts

471. “Passion didn’t bloom, it didn’t whisper. It exploded so that even the air around them seemed to shudder with it.”

— Nora Roberts

472. “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

473. “Marriage is a series of compromises, and at its best, the compromises create a life, a partnership.”

— Nora Roberts

474. “Girl, take it from an old queen: be who you are and the hell with the rest.”

— Nora Roberts

475. “Sometimes we hate her,” Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. “But it’s a hate based on love.”

— Nora Roberts

476. “For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.”

— Nora Roberts

477. “He thought back to his early twenties when he’d routinely looked for ways to meet women. He should’ve rented a puppy.”

— Nora Roberts

478. “There’s magick in cooking, Breen, as you put your intent into it, and your work, and your love as well.”

— Nora Roberts

479. “He felt as if he’d tumbled off a cliff and fallen hard on his heart. Now his heart was swollen, exposed. And it was hers.”

— Nora Roberts

480. “A determined man could build one hell of a blaze from one good spark.”

— Nora Roberts

481. “When you try to make somebody feel stupid when they ask a question, you’re the stupid one.”

— Nora Roberts

482. “She didn’t like to be read so easily but she couldn’t help respecting someone who could.”

— Nora Roberts

483. “Maybe this wasn’t the road she’d expected to take, all those years ago when she was a young girl who imagined having pretty things and a quiet life that she would earn by using her brain. But it was the road she’d taken, and she was making it the right road.”

— Nora Roberts

484. “Love doesn’t require payment. Cam’s right about that. There are no checks and balances here.”

— Nora Roberts

485. “A leader’s who everybody looks to for answers, even when there aren’t any. Who everyone blames when things go wrong. A leader’s the one who has to do the dirty work, even if it’s the damn dishes.”

— Nora Roberts

486. “I love you. Iona Sheehan, I love you. Give me a bloody answer.” “It was yes as soon as you opened your mouth. I just wanted to hear it all. It was yes the minute you asked.” He blinked at her slowly, then narrowed his eyes. “It was yes? It’s yes?” “I love you. There’s nothing I want more than to marry you.” “Yes?”

— Nora Roberts

487. “The question rolled around in Vanessa’s mind as she drove down Main Street. The sleepy town of Hyattown had changed very little in twelve years. It was still tucked in the foothills of Maryland’s Blue Ridge Mountains, surrounded by rolling farmland and thick woods. Apple orchards and dairy cows encroached as close as the town limits, and here, inside those limits, there were no stoplights, no office buildings, no hum of traffic.”

— Nora Roberts

488. “In every world, I think, all who can must learn and remember and stand against those who never do.”

— Nora Roberts

489. “And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.”

— Nora Roberts

490. “I hope that’s true, because I figured out why I’d never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.”

— Nora Roberts

491. “We’re a superstitious breed, we Irish, and wise enough to build around a faerie hill without disturbing it, to leave a stone dance where it stands. And to keep back from a place where the dark still thrums.”

— Nora Roberts

492. “You have to believe in it to get it...”

— Nora Roberts

493. “I don’t believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn’t read for pleasure.”

— Nora Roberts

494. “Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That’s why the world’s lousy with theme parks.”

— Nora Roberts

495. “You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red.” He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. “I think you have to marry me now. You’re the first woman besides Loo who’s seen her and known what she is. I’m pretty sure we’re engaged.”

— Nora Roberts

496. “One of the best things about dogs, to Fiona’s mind, was their absolute joy in welcoming you home, whether you’d been gone for five minutes or five days. There lay unconditional and boundless love.”

— Nora Roberts

497. “Love makes saints or sinners out of men.”

— Nora Roberts

498. “Fictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?”

— Nora Roberts

499. “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

500. “Well, I’d have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.”

— Nora Roberts