Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Romance made every woman beautiful, and every man a prince. A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”

— Nora Roberts

302. “Knowledge, and truth, save us from chaos.” His tone was quiet, reasonable. And made her want to bite him. “Tempering them with compassion and tolerance makes us human. Without those things, fanatics feed on fear and ignorance.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

304. “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

305. “No sooner looked but they loved.”

— Nora Roberts

306. “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

307. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

310. “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

311. “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

312. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

314. “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

315. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

318. “Life has very little even ground.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

321. “A thousand and a thousand times.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

325. “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

326. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

328. “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

329. “People who say not to speak ill of the dead just don’t have the spine to say what they think.” “You’ve.”

— Nora Roberts

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

333. “I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers; Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. – ROBERT HERRICK.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— 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. “Shut up. You Matter. That’s it.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

339. “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

340. “We all look. The lucky find.”

— Nora Roberts

341. “Every one can master a grief but he that has it. – William Shakespeare.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

347. “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

348. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts