Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Power should come from work, time, effort. Care,” he added. “As the most important things do.”

— Nora Roberts

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

— Nora Roberts

353. “Most of all she wanted to feel – strong, ripping emotions, towering joys, vivid excitement.”

— Nora Roberts

354. “Aren’t most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.”

— Nora Roberts

355. “She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.”

— Nora Roberts

356. “Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations he had no desire to face.”

— Nora Roberts

357. “Even now, the Lincoln was less than a half block behind. “Dammit. They just won’t shake lose.” “Oh yeah?” Whitney set her teeth and gave the mirror a quick check. She’d never been a gracious loser. “Watch this.” Before Doug could draw a breath, she whipped the Mercedes around in a tight U-turn and headed dead-on for the Lincoln. He watched with a kind of fascinated dread. “Oh my God.”

— Nora Roberts

358. “We can’t have choice and free will and still be fated.”

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359. “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

360. “Taking love is easy – giving it is a bit harder, for some people anyway.”

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361. “Why would you apologize for what you read for pleasure? Just think of the illiteracy rate. Every book read for pleasure should be celebrated. And novels that celebrate love, commitment, relationships, making relationships work, why isn’t that something to be respected?”

— Nora Roberts

362. “Rule number one was confidence. Rule number two was tenacity.”

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363. “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

364. “Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.”

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365. “From her hiding place in the brush, a young girl watched, her eyes wide with curiosity. There was a burning smell coming from the pit where flames crackled, sending sparks shooting high. Odd shapes had been carved in the trunks of the circling trees. The.”

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366. “Optimism wasn’t always a shield against the worst of it, and acceptance wasn’t always enough.”

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367. “Laying a hand on his heart, she timed its beats to her own. And knew the truest magic was there.”

— Nora Roberts

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

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369. “You bring the color and the life. It’s a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.”

— Nora Roberts

370. “She was tough in the best sense of the word. She’d taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.”

— Nora Roberts

371. “Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart – had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.”

— Nora Roberts

372. “Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.”

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373. “He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.”

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374. “Destiny has more than one road.”

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375. “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

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

— Nora Roberts

377. “I’m going to treat myself to one of these as a reward for not knocking himself unconscious with a skillet.”

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378. “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

379. “There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.”

— Nora Roberts

380. “Roarke cares very much for Beth and for me, and a few select others. But loves? I’m not sure he’d let himself risk quite that unstable an emotion.”

— Nora Roberts

381. “It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?”

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382. “If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.”

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383. “From this nice, safe distance, I’ve realized I actually like my family.”

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384. “Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I’ve got to tell myself it’s what you do with what you get that counts.”

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385. “Do you think I’ll let it go, that I’ll hide from it because you, who’s anything but a coward, is afraid of what ifs?”

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386. “He preferred the term “study” to “office,” as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn’t a requirement.”

— Nora Roberts

387. “I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.”

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388. “There’re twenty-four hours in every day. Isn’t there enough reality in that so we can put a small portion of time aside for wishing?”

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389. “It takes about ten seconds for a puppy to get bored. Bored puppies chew. Happy puppies chew. Sad puppies chew.”

— Nora Roberts

390. “What if there’s a fire?” Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. “Then I guess you’d better open a window, and fly.”

— Nora Roberts

391. “I think things happen between people for a reason.”

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392. “Angling his head, Rafe put a hand on Regan’s shoulder. “Dibs,” he said in a mild warning. “Excuse me?” Regan stepped back and gaped. “I beg your pardon, but did you just say ‘Dibs’?” “Yeah.” Rafe bit off candy, offered her the rest of the bar. When she smacked his hand away, he only shrugged and ate it himself. “Of all the ridiculous, outrageous – You’re a grown man, and you’re standing there eating candy and saying ‘Dibs’ as if I were the last ice-cream bar in the freezer.”

— Nora Roberts

393. “Do you ever wonder at the arrogance of men who think they alone exist in the Universe?”

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394. “Heaven and Earth, Ripley, do more than hold us between them. They expect us to deserve it.”

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395. “You’re going to blow his socks off!”

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396. “Aidan to Jude: What’s wrong with running away if where you were didn’t suit you? Doesn’t it follow you’re funning to something else? Something that does suit you?”

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397. “I thought it was over, all I could think was I never told you I love you. What an idiot.”

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398. “I’m loved. I’m wanted. Spirits are fed on this alone.”

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399. “Look, pal, he who goes to the store buys what he damn well pleases. That’s a new rule around here.”

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400. “It’s right he’s paying you, as you were hurt on his job, and he can well afford it. Doing so shows his character, just as fretting over it shows yours.”

— Nora Roberts