Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “You’re a first-class bastard, Doug.” This time he grinned because he’d heard the light trace of respect. “I like first class, Whitney. I’m going to live there the rest of my life.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

303. “Wait. Wait. Mackensie? The redhead you had a crush on in high school?” Defeated, Carter rubbed the spot between his eyebrows again. “I should never have told you about that. This is why I rarely drink.” “But, Cart, this is like kismet.” Excitement rushed through the words. “It’s like return of the nerd. It’s the big chance to follow up on a lost opportunity.” “It’s coffee,” Carter muttered.”

— Nora Roberts

304. “One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.”

— Nora Roberts

305. “That’s possible to likely. We’re involved, you and me. I’m telling you what I’m going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.”

— Nora Roberts

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

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307. “Why are you always smiling? What do you know?”

— Nora Roberts

308. “Intellectually, she knew no one really died of a broken heart. Emotionally, she suspected some could.”

— Nora Roberts

309. “Only a fool asked for more sorrow. Only a romantic believed that bitterness could ever be sweet.”

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310. “Why couldn’t the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn’t blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he’d worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He’d broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.”

— Nora Roberts

311. “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

312. “She was a fine woman, and lived a good and long life. But it’s left to us still living to miss those who aren’t.”

— Nora Roberts

313. “While the bells rang and echoed, she sat near the edge of the water. Here was peace, she thought, and joy. She would never, never take either for granted. She would remember to give something back every day. Even if it was just a heel of bread for the gulls. She would tend what she planted. She would remember to be kind, and never forget to offer a helping hand.”

— Nora Roberts

314. “He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn’t enough.”

— Nora Roberts

315. “His eyes were anything but friendly, the color of bitter storms.”

— Nora Roberts

316. “Fate. You could never anticipate it.”

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317. “Shut up. You Matter. That’s it.”

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318. “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

319. “It’s better to see and know you’re a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.”

— Nora Roberts

320. “If you look for it, you can find something good about anybody.”

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321. “Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it’d be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River. Roarke: Chattahoochee Eve: What’s the difference? Roarke: Quite a bit, I’d think.”

— Nora Roberts

322. “Didn’t people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?”

— Nora Roberts

323. “Life has very little even ground.”

— Nora Roberts

324. “You’re asking for it, Julie Lynne.” “When.”

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325. “A thousand and a thousand times.”

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326. “The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.”

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327. “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

328. “However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death.”

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329. “If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It’s always people that screw things up for people anyway.”

— Nora Roberts

330. “A lot of people don’t have fond memories of high school. It’s often a war of politics and personalities, set off by the cannon fire of hormones.”

— Nora Roberts

331. “I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.”

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332. “Love, even when it’s not real, can be deadly.”

— Nora Roberts

333. “Power should come from work, time, effort. Care,” he added. “As the most important things do.”

— Nora Roberts

334. “It wasn’t like a date, she reasoned. Not like some weird double date with her and the brother of the dead guy and her best friend and her best friend’s ex-husband who didn’t really count. It was just eating.”

— Nora Roberts

335. “Don’t let anything stop you from going where you need to go, from doing what you need to do. Make your mark on the world, and make it deep so it lasts.”

— Nora Roberts

336. “Love faded, or flipped over into loathing. Or settled somewhere in between into a kind of grinding detachment. It could snap like a dry twig, with one careless step.”

— Nora Roberts

337. “My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?”

— Nora Roberts

338. “We all look. The lucky find.”

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339. “I’d suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that’s physically impossible for you at the moment.”

— Nora Roberts

340. “Or better yet, may all the gods who ever were bless us, and help us send the bloody bastard to hell.”

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341. “I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.”

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342. “She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?”

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343. “Love, even when pledged, isn’t enough.”

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344. “She started to sound like Charlie Brown’s mother to him. Just a nasal wah-wah-wah. He loved her, he really did, but he imagined Charlie Brown loved his mother, too. It didn’t make her any more comprehensible.”

— Nora Roberts

345. “She could hold him close now, touch as she was touched. Taste as she was tasted. The pleasure filled her – the glide of his hands, the heat of his lips, the catch of his breath as they rolled together to find more.”

— Nora Roberts

346. “I’d always loved to read – and come from a family of readers – but I never thought about writing as a career.”

— Nora Roberts

347. “I’m not looking for a man right now. Too damn much trouble. Even when it’s good, they take a lot of time, effort, and energy. I’m enjoying using all that time, effort, and energy on myself.”

— Nora Roberts

348. “I’ve got something for you inside me, Anna.” He forgot his hands were grimy and laid them on her shoulders. “I haven’t used it up yet. This thing with you, it’s one of the first times I haven’t wanted to rush to the finish line.”

— Nora Roberts

349. “We’ll be okay. Luck’s starting to move in our direction.”

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350. “Because he’s not some perfect fantasy. He’s flawed and you understand that. It means you’ve fallen for who he is, not who you want him to be.”

— Nora Roberts