Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Once she’d been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.”

— Nora Roberts

102. “No. No, I don’t believe you’d betray me with her. I don’t believe you’d cheat on me. But I’m afraid, and I’m sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.”

— Nora Roberts

103. “Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It’s called the sun. Let’s go get us a little.”

— Nora Roberts

104. “Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.”

— Nora Roberts

105. “The man’s got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?”

— Nora Roberts

106. “Laurel: I don’t need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It’s not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It’s the promise. It’s the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I’m the one for him. That’s not just enough, it’s everything.”

— Nora Roberts

107. “Love’s scary, and sometimes it’s transient. But it’s worth the risks and the nerves. It’s even worth the pain.”

— Nora Roberts

108. “The wounded recognized the wounded.”

— Nora Roberts

109. “The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.”

— Nora Roberts

110. “I’d rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant.”

— Nora Roberts

111. “Hard isn’t hard if you’ve got a strong back and a purpose.”

— Nora Roberts

112. “A relationship isn’t something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It’s something that’ll always be just a little flawed.”

— Nora Roberts

113. “So does that mean you’re going to fall in love with me again? What makes you think i ever stopped?”

— Nora Roberts

114. “Love doesn’t turn on and off like a light switch.”

— Nora Roberts

115. “Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn’t destroy that. They couldn’t stop you from becoming.”

— Nora Roberts

116. “Why is it you think you’ll live forever and why do you want to, I’d like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?”

— Nora Roberts

117. “Listen carefully. I’d crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.”

— Nora Roberts

118. “People in hell want snowcones.”

— Nora Roberts

119. “Good fiction creates its own reality.”

— Nora Roberts

120. “If sex is dignified it’s not being done right.”

— Nora Roberts

121. “Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.”

— Nora Roberts

122. “Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.”

— Nora Roberts

123. “Love birds don’t always sing pretty tunes.”

— Nora Roberts

124. “Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.”

— Nora Roberts

125. “I think she was the love of his life. When you’ve got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about them even when you’re doing routine things. It makes you want to protect them, to make them happy and safe.”

— Nora Roberts

126. “Don’t ‘honey’ me in that southern-fried twang.”

— Nora Roberts

127. “I want to keep you, till the end of days.”

— Nora Roberts

128. “It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.”

— Nora Roberts

129. “That woman doesn’t have the sense God gave a retarded flea.”

— Nora Roberts

130. “I’ve found out that falling in love doesn’t have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it’s ready to happen.”

— Nora Roberts

131. “Wouldn’t it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.”

— Nora Roberts

132. “Every writer needs an editor. I don’t care how good you are or think you are.”

— Nora Roberts

133. “Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.”

— Nora Roberts

134. “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

135. “It does not make you less of a woman to need a man. To need one to exist, yes, this is nonsense. To need one to give one scope and importance, this is dishonest. But to need a man, one man, to bring joy and passion? This is life.”

— Nora Roberts

136. “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

137. “I love you. I don’t know when it started, years ago or weeks. But I know my heart’s lost to you, and I wouldn’t have it another way. You’re what I want, all there is of you.”

— Nora Roberts

138. “I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.”

— Nora Roberts

139. “My boyfriend and I are badasses.”

— Nora Roberts

140. “Once love found you it clung, no matter how much you tried to shake it off.”

— Nora Roberts

141. “Don’t say hit and mountain in the same sentence.”

— Nora Roberts

142. “If love doesn’t make a fool of us, what will?”

— Nora Roberts

143. “Dolls are like small dead people.”

— Nora Roberts

144. “Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.”

— Nora Roberts

145. “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

146. “And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She’d been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.”

— Nora Roberts

147. “Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.”

— Nora Roberts

148. “You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee.”

— Nora Roberts

149. “The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover’s tears.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts