Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

106. “Once she’d been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.”

— Nora Roberts

107. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

109. “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

110. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

112. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

114. “The wounded recognized the wounded.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

117. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

121. “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

122. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

125. “People in hell want snowcones.”

— Nora Roberts

126. “Good fiction creates its own reality.”

— Nora Roberts

127. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

131. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

138. “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

139. “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

140. “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

141. “Nature was as full of cruelty as of beauty, he knew all too well.”

— Nora Roberts

142. “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

143. “Love shouldn’t be hard.” “There I think you’re wrong. I think it should be the hardest thing there is, then it’s not so easily given away, or taken away, or just lost.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

146. “My boyfriend and I are badasses.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

150. “Dolls are like small dead people.”

— Nora Roberts