Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “He’d done as he’d pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn’t been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.”

— Nora Roberts

302. “What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?”

— Nora Roberts

303. “There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.”

— Nora Roberts

304. “She’d never been taken before, he realized. Not like this, where her surrender was complete, not when she couldn’t separate some small part of herself to reach for control. And God, he wanted to take her, to destroy that fascinating and innate control.”

— Nora Roberts

305. “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

306. “I don’t base any character on a real person, and really don’t do composites either. I make them up.”

— Nora Roberts

307. “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

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. “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

316. “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

317. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

320. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

324. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

326. “Life has very little even ground.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

328. “A thousand and a thousand times.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

334. “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

335. “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

336. “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

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

340. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

342. “We all look. The lucky find.”

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— 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. “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

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

— Nora Roberts