Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven’t attempted kidnapping. Yet.”

— Nora Roberts

202. “Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can’t love with permanence, you’ll deserve the one who’s worthy along that path for you.”

— Nora Roberts

203. “My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It’s not, ‘Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.’”

— Nora Roberts

204. “I get pretty opinionated about books.”

— Nora Roberts

205. “After hell comes heaven.”

— Nora Roberts

206. “A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”

— Nora Roberts

207. “You don’t find time to write. You make time. It’s my job.”

— Nora Roberts

208. “To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.”

— Nora Roberts

209. “If you can’t dance on it, it isn’t coffee.”

— Nora Roberts

210. “I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.”

— Nora Roberts

211. “What’s wrong with standing in the same place if it’s a good place?” “Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you’re standing in it alone. Honey, alone and lonely share the same root.”

— Nora Roberts

212. “He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.”

— Nora Roberts

213. “Getting a room’s not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.”

— Nora Roberts

214. “If I didn’t say it, how do you know?” “When you touch me, when you look at me, when you hold me, I feel it.” She looked up at him, eyes drenched. “And I couldn’t love you this much without you loving me back. I couldn’t know how right it is to be with you if I didn’t know you loved me.”

— Nora Roberts

215. “Dinner’s in one hour. If you’re not back, sitting at the table, I’ll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.”

— Nora Roberts

216. “He decided there was no point in telling her he’d looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There’d just be some variation of his mother’s standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.”

— Nora Roberts

217. “I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you’ve had enough of that crap, so it’s time you fell into something nice. See what you make out of it.”

— Nora Roberts

218. “It’s an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.”

— Nora Roberts

219. “Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?”

— Nora Roberts

220. “Some things are just meant, and no matter how many times you walk away, you end up where you belonged all along.”

— Nora Roberts

221. “Three weeks hadn’t changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.”

— Nora Roberts

222. “Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.”

— Nora Roberts

223. “If that isn’t typical male stupidity! If something doesn’t work, kick it or swear at it!”

— Nora Roberts

224. “I decided to write category romance as I’d recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.”

— Nora Roberts

225. “Grudges are bridges with faulty spans. Falling off one is a lot more rewarding than getting stuck on the other side.”

— Nora Roberts

226. “He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.”

— Nora Roberts

227. “That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren’t there.”

— Nora Roberts

228. “You don’t cheat, steal, or lie. You don’t misuse animals or take advantage of those weaker than you. You don’t spoil for a fight – which is a rule come to be in the last few years – but you don’t walk away from one. You stand for your friends and for your round in the pub. You never touch a woman who belongs to another, and you don’t give your word unless you intend to keep it.”

— Nora Roberts

229. “Survivors lived with their mistakes.”

— Nora Roberts

230. “You can never read too many books, any kind.”

— Nora Roberts

231. “God is dead and I am his replacement.”

— Nora Roberts

232. “I saw you standing on a veranda you’d built with your own hands. And I loved you.”

— Nora Roberts

233. “And tis’ my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes.”

— Nora Roberts

234. “It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.”

— Nora Roberts

235. “Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.”

— Nora Roberts

236. “I read a lot – and I read a variety of genres.”

— Nora Roberts

237. “It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.”

— Nora Roberts

238. “Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?”

— Nora Roberts

239. “My mother says happy ever after’s a bunch of bull.”

— Nora Roberts

240. “If you tell me I’m sensible in addition to normal and wise, I’m going to punch you in the stomach.”

— Nora Roberts

241. “Body adornments show that we’re aware of our bodies and expect others to be aware as well.”

— Nora Roberts

242. “Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.”

— Nora Roberts

243. “She’s everything I’m not. I’m comfortable with who I am, what I am, but when you come up against someone like that, it’s a kick-in-the-butt reminder of what you’re never going to be, never going to have. I don’t like feeling inadequate or stupid.”

— Nora Roberts

244. “Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos.”

— Nora Roberts

245. “It isn’t easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.”

— Nora Roberts

246. “Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow.”

— Nora Roberts

247. “Feelings are feelings. I don’t understand why people blame other people for what they feel.”

— Nora Roberts

248. “Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.”

— Nora Roberts

249. “People say to someone they love: I’d die for you. They don’t expect to, of course, have no plans to. They may believe it, or mean it, or it may simply be an expression of devotion. But I know what it means now, I understand that impossible depth of emotion now. And I know you would die for me. You’d put my life before yours to protect me. And that terrifies me.”

— Nora Roberts

250. “It doesn’t matter. That’s the point. It doesn’t matter that my mother is my mother, or that things don’t always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. I know that better than anyone, but I never let it apply to me. Not to me. People matter, how they feel, how they connect, who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes. What matters is you’re the blue butterfly.”

— Nora Roberts