Top 500 Nora Roberts Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “They had their feast, a happy family group, roasted wild pheasant seasoned with tarragon, stuffed with oranges, apples, shallots, and sage, cooked on a bed of carrots and potatoes, tomatoes. Peas and good brown bread from the oven, farm butter. Good friends, old friends.”

— Nora Roberts

402. “You’re well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation.”

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403. “When a woman brings something up, then doesn’t have much to say about it, she’s got a lot to say about it.”

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404. “You paid off a million dollars since January?” Viola shook her head. “That must’ve been one holy hell of a yard sale.”

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405. “She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.”

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406. “People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.”

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407. “He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel’s heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del’s hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.”

— Nora Roberts

408. “Why do people always think being lovers shouldn’t be complicated?”

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409. “I’ve wanted to be with you when I didn’t have the right to.”

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410. “She’d learned not to hurry – had taught herself not to push, not to rush, but to take things as they came. And in a very real way to embrace every single moment.”

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411. “Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.”

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412. “Men are boys in bigger packages.”

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413. “You’ve good speed and agility, and endurance enough. But you’ve no killer in the blood, and so you’ll always be bested.” Iona rubbed her butt. “I never planned on killing anyone.” “Plans change,” Branna pointed out. “Fix those flowers now, as it’s your rump that crushed them.”

— Nora Roberts

414. “Everything she’d ever read about love was true, she discovered. The sun shined brighter, the air smelled fresher. Flowers were more colorful, the songs of birds more musical.”

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415. “If you walked through the woods alone, in the dark, and didn’t have some sense of wonder, it was hardly worth the trip.”

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416. “The socializing hadn’t been so bad, he acknowledged, and he couldn’t say he minded the food, though a man would do better with a good beef sandwich. Still it was plentiful, even if you did have to pick your way through half of it to get to something recognizable.”

— Nora Roberts

417. “You can’t know everything. Sometimes you have to trust. Sometimes you have to just feel.”

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418. “He’d learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic.”

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419. “You start with earth and good intentions.”

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420. “We’re not blank slates. What we’ve done, what we’ve survived all go into us.”

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421. “Oh, it was just me – that’s why.”

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422. “Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.”

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423. “I know how to take care of myself.” “No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don’t know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That’s conceit.” She slapped the glass on the counter. “It’s independence and capability.” “To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.”

— Nora Roberts

424. “She started to speak, to ask politely for a glass of white wine. Then he smiled, a slow, lazy curving of lips that inexplicably set her insides a fluttering and turned her mind into a buzzing mess of static.”

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425. “Grandmothers are designed to fuss over their grandchildren. It makes us happy. Don’t you want me to be happy?”

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426. “I won’t argue. It’s different for everyone, isn’t it? Love, magick, and how we see and deal. And in each, the choices we make.”

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427. “Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He’ll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot’s born, Arthur’s fate is sealed. He’ll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who’ll kill him. In this moment, he’s a boy. In the next he’ll be a king.”

— Nora Roberts

428. “She kept to herself because solitude soothed her.”

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429. “I read everything. It was one of the most surefire ways to go somewhere else for a while.”

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430. “Setting her jaw, Whitney turned left. “This is a one-way street.” He looked around helplessly. “Didn’t you see the sign?” “I know it’s a one-way street,” she muttered and pressed harder on the gas. “It’s also the quickest way across town.” “Oh, Jesus.”

— Nora Roberts

431. “I’d have taken anything you’d given. I’d have wrapped my own gauzy layers around it and convinced myself that it was right. But it would never have been right. I can’t be happy, not really down-to-the-bone happy, with less than I need. And if I’m not happy, I can’t make someone else happy.”

— Nora Roberts

432. “If you don’t tell her just that, if you don’t give her your heart, Aidan, if you don’t bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you’ll never have her.”

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433. “He didn’t expect to find her. I didn’t expect him to find her. She makes a difference, in him, in the book.”

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434. “When are you going to stop being annoyed.”

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435. “The guy – he’s an eager beaver – more eager, I’d say, because he wants to impress you. Sends you longing glances.” “He does not.” “Serious crush. I know just how he feels.” Now she snorted. “A crush is different from wanting to get a woman naked and onto any available flat surface.” “Oh. Guess I don’t know how he feels, then.”

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436. “When you’ve had less than little in some things, you’re grateful for even a spoonful of more.”

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437. “It’s odd that I never realized this is so much what I want. A home. A place where people I enjoy and who enjoy me will come when they like. Will feel comfortable and easy. Maybe it wasn’t solitude I was looking for after all when I so rashly flew to Ireland. It was what I’ve had over these last hours. Companionship, laughter, foolishness, and well, romance. I suppose I didn’t realize it because I never let myself really wish for it. Now without even the wish, here it is.”

— Nora Roberts

438. “It’s always seemed to me things are more exciting when you’re not looking and you find them.”

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439. “It’s harsh. There’s enough harsh in the world. I’m going to try a little optimism for a change.”

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440. “I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.”

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441. “Friends are friends whenever you make them.”

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442. “You have a chance and a choice to be what you are. To build on all that came before, reach for what comes next. To fail, well, greatness rises from first failures.”

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443. “Power and privilege will always be attacked by smaller men who claim they have a cause. But the cause is always avarice. Whatever lofty excuse men use for war or revolution, it’s always because they want the power another holds.”

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444. “When you try to make somebody feel stupid when they ask a question, you’re the stupid one.”

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445. “Everyone feels hemmed in from time to time, no matter where they live.” She laid a hand on his thigh. “When I’m feeling that way, I go to Ireland. Walk along an empty beach. When I do, I think of all the people who have walked there before, and will walk there again. Then it occurs to me that nothing is forever. No matter how bad, or how good, everything passes and moves on to another level.” “‘All things change; nothing perishes,’” he mumbled.”

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446. “It shows who we are. We’re making our lives, living our lives, both of us, Zane. Yeah, we’re okay. They couldn’t take who we are away from us. We’re who we are despite them.”

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447. “What I’m saying – I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it’s important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.”

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448. “I’m not after romance. It’s the sort of thing that weakens resolve and clouds sense.”

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449. “Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.”

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450. “Why did they make babies so damn small? And loud. Surely better arrangements could be made for the propagation of the human race.”

— Nora Roberts