Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “If you write in category, you write knowing there’s a framework, there are reader expectations.”

— Nora Roberts

302. “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

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303. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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305. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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307. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

309. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

311. “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

312. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

314. “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

315. “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

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316. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

318. “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

319. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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321. “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

322. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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324. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

326. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

328. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

333. “Life has very little even ground.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

335. “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

336. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

338. “A thousand and a thousand times.”

— Nora Roberts

339. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

344. “You’re thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It’ll amaze you.”

— Nora Roberts

345. “Every writer has to figure out what works best – and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.”

— Nora Roberts

346. “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

347. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

349. “Shut up, shut up, she ordered herself, but nerves overwhelmed her. “You have a wonderful operation. Meara showed me around. And you’re right. Alastar has spirit, and a strong will, but he’s not mean. Not innately. He’s just mad and unsettled, finding himself in a strange place, with people and horses he’s not used to. Now he has something to prove, especially to Boyle.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts