Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

153. “People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.”

— Nora Roberts

154. “Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.”

— Nora Roberts

155. “Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I’ve ever faced since I started writing.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

158. “Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.”

— Nora Roberts

159. “When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.”

— Nora Roberts

160. “When you reach for the stars, you lose blood and tears. That’s something you should remember.”

— Nora Roberts

161. “I am what I am and I can’t change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don’t want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don’t need anyone to. I’ve learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don’t give a damn if you or anyone else doesn’t.”

— Nora Roberts

162. “She’s the light. Before, you can fumble around in the dark or manage in the dim. You don’t even know it’s dim because that’s the way it’s always been. But then, she’s the light. Everything changes. If the light shuts off, or worse, you’re stupid enough to shut it off yourself, it’s a hell of a lot darker than before.”

— Nora Roberts

163. “What’s she like, the Peeping Tammy?” “She doesn’t think about it that way, and you get it when she talks. She likes people.”

— Nora Roberts

164. “Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.”

— Nora Roberts

165. “Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love. – Prince Carrick.”

— Nora Roberts

166. “Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.”

— Nora Roberts

167. “Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don’t ignore the present when you take them out to play.”

— Nora Roberts

168. “Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. – WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.”

— Nora Roberts

169. “A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.”

— Nora Roberts

170. “There’s just no love like the love of a mother for a child, no matter how that child comes into their life, and no loss or grief to match it.”

— Nora Roberts

171. “Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.”

— Nora Roberts

172. “Fate takes its own sweet time, but it always finds a way.”

— Nora Roberts

173. “There’s an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.”

— Nora Roberts

174. “Mothers do, every day. It’s funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way – the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.”

— Nora Roberts

175. “Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.”

— Nora Roberts

176. “I went wherever I could that wasn’t there. Most of the time, though, I came here. I sheltered in place, but I kept looking for somewhere or something else. I’m not sure I knew, until you, that it was more than that for me, more than sheltering in place. It was my place, my home. Nothing she can do will change that.”

— Nora Roberts

177. “Anything worth anything can be found in books.”

— Nora Roberts

178. “The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas’s opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there – the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses – turned the blood cold.”

— Nora Roberts

179. “And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. – John 1:5.”

— Nora Roberts

180. “She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.”

— Nora Roberts

181. “Roarke’s brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve’s body. In the manner of men or unfriendly male dogs, Roarke showed his teeth.”

— Nora Roberts

182. “It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.”

— Nora Roberts

183. “Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.”

— Nora Roberts

184. “I love my man... we’re bound body, heart, soul. There’s magic in that, more potent than any spell, more wicked than any curse.”

— Nora Roberts

185. “With blood and tears we spill our fears.” She waved a hand over the cauldron, and the liquid within began to stir. “A pinch of salt times four to close and bolt the door. Weeds to bind, berries to blind. My children he will not see, and they will live safe and free. Pretty petals tinged with hate, scented sweet and so to bait. Boil it all in fire and smoke, and on this potion Cabhan chokes. When I call he comes to me, as I will, so mote it be.”

— Nora Roberts

186. “The simple and most complex answer is love.”

— Nora Roberts

187. “Love didn’t run on logic. It didn’t follow neat lines or a list of priorities.”

— Nora Roberts

188. “I need to write to be happy.”

— Nora Roberts

189. “It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.”

— Nora Roberts

190. “Feelings need to be expressed, Hope. They aren’t always understood the way people like to assume.”

— Nora Roberts

191. “You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.”

— Nora Roberts

192. “Necessity is often the mother of balls.”

— Nora Roberts

193. “You’re going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.”

— Nora Roberts

194. “In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.”

— Nora Roberts

195. “But Roarke doesn’t feel weird about it. He’s full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did – do. It was easier when they didn’t work, but it’s better when they do. You know?”

— Nora Roberts

196. “There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumping up against stubborn women.”

— Nora Roberts

197. “I loved the process of writing.”

— Nora Roberts

198. “Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic.”

— Nora Roberts

199. “She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.”

— Nora Roberts

200. “Mac has a sexy breakfast story.” “Really?” Eyebrows lifted, Parker set the syrup and butter on the table of the breakfast nook. “Tell all.” “It began, and sexy tales often do, when I spilled Diet Coke on my shirt.”

— Nora Roberts