Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.”

— Nora Roberts

52. “Holding onto something that’s gone only makes a sickness inside.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

55. “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

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. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

62. “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

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. “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

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

— 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 think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

74. “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

75. “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

76. “Love isn’t a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there’s a mistake. It’s a gift, as much for the giver as the one who’s given it. The day you’ll take it, hold it, you won’t be afraid.”

— Nora Roberts

77. “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

78. “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

79. “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

80. “The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

86. “When people break your heart, pride’s all you’ve got left.”

— Nora Roberts

87. “You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.”

— Nora Roberts

88. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

91. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

93. “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

94. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

97. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

99. “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

100. “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