Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.”

— Nora Roberts

252. “In all the illusions, you’re the only truth that I need.”

— Nora Roberts

253. “Love meant different things to different people.”

— Nora Roberts

254. “Youth and age, she thought. Beginnings and endings, connections and constancy. And, love. She snapped the embrace, but that wasn’t it. She snapped the glitter of tears, and still, no. Then Alison lowered her forehead to her grandmother’s, and even as her lips curved, a single tear slid down her cheek while the dress glowed and glittered behind them. Perfect. The blue butterfly.”

— Nora Roberts

255. “Damn skippy.” “Who is Skippy? Why are you mad at him?” “It’s an expression. Like bet your ass.” “People are always betting their asses. Language is fun.”

— Nora Roberts

256. “When a woman had eyes that big, that brown, that beautiful, she probably got whatever she wanted without saying a word.”

— Nora Roberts

257. “I’m still picking pockets – I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.”

— Nora Roberts

258. “You put something behind you, it’s got its eyes on your back. I’d rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it’s going.”

— Nora Roberts

259. “For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected – the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American.”

— Nora Roberts

260. “She felt her heart beating in her throat when the man in the mask began to chant again.”

— Nora Roberts

261. “Don’t let the fear and suspicion of the brutal and ignorant make you doubt yourself.”

— Nora Roberts

262. “But you stand up for me. You tell me the truth. You make me laugh, and you make me want. You let me be and feel who I am. And you fell in love with me even when you didn’t want to.”

— Nora Roberts

263. “He looks fierce and dignified at the same time. Can I pet him?”

— Nora Roberts

264. “It’s not a matter of jealousy. It’s a matter of courtesy.”

— Nora Roberts

265. “I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it’s good for me.”

— Nora Roberts

266. “I find I use the Internet more and more. It’s just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now – and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.”

— Nora Roberts

267. “To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.”

— Nora Roberts

268. “Love can fade and die. I’ve seen it. It can grow and build as well. I think when it’s real and meant, it can only grow bigger and stronger.”

— Nora Roberts

269. “I want you more than I should,” she heard herself say. “I have you less than I want.”

— Nora Roberts

270. “The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth and legend. But some believed, as legends brought comfort.”

— Nora Roberts

271. “The woman’s managed what hasn’t been done in thirty-one years. She’s broke my god dawn nose.”

— Nora Roberts

272. “But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out.”

— Nora Roberts

273. “Love’s a gift, Hayley, to be taken and received freely.”

— Nora Roberts

274. “I’d rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.”

— Nora Roberts

275. “Life – you have to live it as it comes.”

— Nora Roberts

276. “As she rubbed, as she crooned, Connor’s eyes fluttered open. He found himself staring up into Meara’s pale face and teary eyes. “What? Why am I on the floor? I hadn’t gotten drunk yet.” He reached up, brushed a tear from Meara’s cheek. “Don’t cry, darling.” He struggled to sit up, teetered a bit. “Well, here we all are, sitting on Fin’s kitchen floor. If we’re going to spin the bottle, I’d like to be the one to empty it first.”

— Nora Roberts

277. “I would hope that my writing’s cleaner than it was when I started.”

— Nora Roberts

278. “Love’s not a faulty toaster. You can’t take it apart and study the pieces, replace a part and figure out how it all fits back together. You just feel it.”

— Nora Roberts

279. “Look, if some guy dressed in his mother’s clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.”

— Nora Roberts

280. “Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.”

— Nora Roberts

281. “You have to trust or you’re only living half a life.”

— Nora Roberts

282. “Maybe some could say that changing her mind was part of her problem. But she didn’t think so. If you never changed your mind, what was the point of having one? It seemed to Hayley she’d known too many people who were stuck with one way of thinking, and how could that be using the brain God gave you.”

— Nora Roberts

283. “Did they know – the young and fearless – what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?”

— Nora Roberts

284. “Why couldn’t she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow’s? Why let the maybe’s, the what if’s, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?”

— Nora Roberts

285. “No sooner looked but they loved.”

— Nora Roberts

286. “Love’s not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It’s real and vital, and it’s necessary. Damn it.”

— Nora Roberts

287. “Symbols are important. The Christians followed the pagans there, carving and painting their one God as the old ones carved and painted the many. Neither understand that the one is part of the many, the many part of the one.”

— Nora Roberts

288. “If you write in category, you write knowing there’s a framework, there are reader expectations.”

— Nora Roberts

289. “I don’t fiddle or edit or change while I’m going through that first draft.”

— Nora Roberts

290. “Every single book is a challenge.”

— Nora Roberts

291. “Something your father wouldn’t have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it’s done, or how it’s justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you’re willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.”

— Nora Roberts

292. “Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books – one I’ve read a dozen times – and still slide right into the story.”

— Nora Roberts

293. “Are you telling me you’re cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?”

— Nora Roberts

294. “A good story’s like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you’ve read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it’s yours, it’s always yours.”

— Nora Roberts

295. “I think this one’s in the running for Ditzy Bride status. Not only does she want her MOH to walk her two Siamese cats down the aisle rather than carry a bouquet, but wants to include them on the guest list.”

— Nora Roberts

296. “I’m good at figuring out how things work, but I don’t know how this happened.”

— Nora Roberts

297. “Need a gallon of milk and a box of bullets? This was the spot.”

— Nora Roberts

298. “It’s ridiculous to say not to speak ill of the dead. We’re all going to be dead eventually. What would we talk about in the meantime?”

— Nora Roberts

299. “Love’s the glue. Use it right, it can fix most anything.”

— Nora Roberts

300. “There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it’s the right thing.”

— Nora Roberts