Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Holding onto something that’s gone only makes a sickness inside.”

— Nora Roberts

52. “Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.”

— Nora Roberts

53. “I generally write a first draft that’s pretty lean. Just get the story down.”

— Nora Roberts

54. “Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars?”

— Nora Roberts

55. “She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.”

— Nora Roberts

56. “Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.”

— Nora Roberts

57. “And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue.”

— Nora Roberts

58. “You’re excuses are so lame they’re limping...”

— Nora Roberts

59. “The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.”

— Nora Roberts

60. “It’s about us. It’s about trust.”

— Nora Roberts

61. “Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

63. “Tell him I took the cat.”

— Nora Roberts

64. “Why would I kill someone I don’t know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent’t killed any of them?”

— Nora Roberts

65. “Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”

— Nora Roberts

66. “Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.”

— Nora Roberts

67. “You can’t write well what you don’t read for pleasure. If it doesn’t entertain you, it’s not going to entertain anyone else.”

— Nora Roberts

68. “I don’t think you can write – at least not well – if you don’t love stories, love the written word.”

— Nora Roberts

69. “Couples take care of each other, Clare, that’s what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.”

— Nora Roberts

70. “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

71. “I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.”

— Nora Roberts

72. “I hate patience. Slows everything down.”

— Nora Roberts

73. “When I left, it was for you. Coming back was for you. There’s nothing you can say, nothing you can do that would make me leave you again.”

— Nora Roberts

74. “Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”

— Nora Roberts

75. “I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.”

— Nora Roberts

76. “He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.”

— Nora Roberts

77. “Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”

— Nora Roberts

78. “Don’t give up on your own happy-evers.”

— Nora Roberts

79. “I won’t consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we’re vertical.”

— Nora Roberts

80. “Bright light. You’ve always found your way.”

— Nora Roberts

81. “Politics. It’s for idiots and bad actors.”

— Nora Roberts

82. “Old friends are the bricks and mortar of your life.”

— Nora Roberts

83. “You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love’s supposed to be scary. Because if there’s no fear, there’s no thrill.”

— Nora Roberts

84. “Dreams were essential, creativity a must, but details, sweat, and a business plan made dreams a reality.”

— Nora Roberts

85. “I’m a mild disappointment to them, which is worse somehow than being a serious disappointment. So I’m working hard not to be any kind of disappointment to myself.” She.”

— Nora Roberts

86. “Ends and beginnings – there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST.”

— Nora Roberts

87. “If love isn’t stronger than pride, it isn’t love.”

— Nora Roberts

88. “I don’t kick a man when he’s down, unless I’m the one who put him down in the first place. I don’t put him down unless he deserves it. And I don’t break my word if I give it. So I’ll give you my word.”

— Nora Roberts

89. “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

90. “You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.”

— Nora Roberts

91. “You can’t argue with math, Carter. You’ll always lose.”

— Nora Roberts

92. “I don’t think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.”

— Nora Roberts

93. “A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.”

— Nora Roberts

94. “People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they’re thinking ill.”

— Nora Roberts

95. “If you love someone, when it’s the most real, the most important thing in your life, it’s not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.”

— Nora Roberts

96. “Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They’re there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don’t keep driving into the pothole.”

— Nora Roberts

97. “Why don’t you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.”

— Nora Roberts

98. “I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it’s blood or fire, don’t bother me.”

— Nora Roberts

99. “Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”

— Nora Roberts

100. “There are no dead ends, just detours.”

— Nora Roberts