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An American best-selling author known for her romance novels. Since publishing her first novel in 1981, Nora Roberts has written over 200 books, which have been beloved by readers worldwide.

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“Do you always get away with the outrageous?" "Mostly. Are you always s beautiful in the morning?" "Don't waste your charm." "It's all right, I have more.”

Beautiful Morning Waste Charm Get Away Outrageous

Book:Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

Source: Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

“My apartment's only about a block away." "Isn't that handy." "Fate," he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. "Fantasic, isn't it?" "One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.”

Made Home Can Do Fate One Day Block Seats Apartment Handy Sofas

Book:Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

Source: Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

“You all right?" Diana let out a deep breath. "Ask me again when I'm not praying.”

Asks Praying Breaths Ask Me Deep Breath Diana

Book:Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

Source: Tempting Fate: The MacGregors

“You can’t go back. Can’t fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference.” She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. “From where I’m standing, you’re the best step I ever took.”

Matter Hands Faces Differences Steps Standing Broke Making A Difference Desks Every Step You Re The Best Pushed Away

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

“I hate patience. Slows everything down.”

Author:Nora Roberts

“You have heard the expression 'love is blind'" "I think it's bullshit. Lust dazzles, sure, at least for the short term. But love clears the vision. You see better, sharper, because you feel more that you did before”

Thinking Feels Term Love Is Vision Heard Expression Blind Lust Bullshit Short Term Dazzle Love Is Blind

Author:Nora Roberts

“I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm." ----Roarke, Naked In Death”

Ideas Causes Warm Naked

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“The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.”

World Said Hands Security Sick Officers Afternoon Sad World Sick World Good Afternoon

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

Author:Nora Roberts

“Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.”

Happens Care Couple Take Care Scare

Book:Nora Roberts' Inn Boonsboro Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Inn Boonsboro Trilogy

“It's about us. It's about trust.”

Book:Nora Roberts' Inn Boonsboro Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' Inn Boonsboro Trilogy

“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.”

People Matter Figures Involved

Book:The Next Always

Source: The Next Always

“You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.”

Knows Way Looks Said Our Lives Brother My Brother

Book:The Next Always

Source: The Next Always

“You got used to running things on your own." "What could he do about it when he's in Iraq and the car breaks down in Kansas?" Beckett gave her a long, quiet look. "I'm not in Iraq." "No, and it has to be said, I'm not in Kansas anymore." She lifted her hands, then let them fall. "It's not that I've forgotten how to be a couple, but that my experience in being part of one is different from yours. Maybe from most people's. And I've been on my own a long time." "Now you're not. I'm not fighting a war, and I'm right here." Needed to be here, he realized, with her.”

People Looks Long Said Different War Hands Running Used Fall Fighting My Own Break Car Couple Needed Quiet Long Time Forgotten Iraq Breaking Down Kansas Beckett

Author:Nora Roberts

“I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.”

Want Waiting Finished Waiting For You

Book:The Next Always

Source: The Next Always

“You have to believe in it to get it.”

Book:Heart of the Sea

Source: Heart of the Sea

“Happily ever after?" "If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.”

Ifs Real Justice Fiction And Love Entertainment Circles Real Life Triumph Happily Ever After Ever After Life Sucks

Book:Angels Fall

Source: Angels Fall

“An eye for an eye.” “That's a revenge thing, right? From some play.” “The Bible, darling. The Lord of all plays.”

Play Eye Lord Revenge Darling Eye For An Eye

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

“She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.”

Alive Bleeding Bruised

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

“I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.”

Ifs Want Would Be Jobs Choices Loses Cutting Arms Notes I Want You Commanders Badges Cutting Off

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

“[First line] “The business of murder took time, patience, skill, and a tolerance for the monotonous.”

Firsts Lines Skills Murder Tolerance Monotonous Time Patience

Author:Nora Roberts

“She doesn’t like you, McNab. “I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.”

Like You Attractive

Author:Nora Roberts

“I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.”

Thinking Believe Wells Character Stories Imagine Gender Hopefully Bubbles Translate Traveled Good Writers

Author:Nora Roberts

“When you love someone, you have to be with them, don't you? To be part of their life, to have them be part of yours." Glory in Death”

Glory Love Someone When You Love Someone

Author:Nora Roberts

“Don't 'honey' me in that southern-fried twang.”

Book:Blue Dahlia

Source: Blue Dahlia

“Plus it's just embarrassing when someone - oops.' She pressed a hand to her side, and had the blood draining out of Harper's face. 'What? What?' 'Nothing. baby's moving around. Sometimes it gives me a jolt is all.' 'You should stand up. You should sit down.”

Giving Should Sometimes Hands Faces Moving Sides Blood Baby Give Me Plus Embarrassing Draining Harper

Book:Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy

Source: Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy

“You have to trust or you're only living half a life.”

Author:Nora Roberts

“It's an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.”

Knows Wells Who You Are Exceptional

Author:Nora Roberts

“In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need”

Author:Nora Roberts

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

Done Blank Survived Slate Blank Slates

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.”

Thinking Influence Impact

Book:Happy Ever After

Source: Happy Ever After

“Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.”

World Giving Different Loss Gains Opening Something New Closing Opening Up

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.”

Ifs Want Nice Safe Train Scary Supposed To Be Heels Thrill No Fear Puppy

Book:Savor the Moment

Source: Savor the Moment

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

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“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.”

Men Values Wise Color Lucky Lucky Man Color And Life

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.”

World Sides Driven Driving Welcome Gas Avoided Bumps Potholes

Author:Nora Roberts

“It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.”

Giving Foundation Stomach Spine

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“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?”

Ifs Problem Enjoy Mistake Worry Tomorrow Creating Obstacles Lovely What If Probability Spoil Digging

Author:Nora Roberts

“It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.”

People Way Feels Should Matter Moments Together

Author:Nora Roberts

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

People Thinking Reason Happens Things Happen

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.”

Littles Said Hard Bits Sides Little Bit Mark Hard Times Scar Tangled Wild Side

Book:Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

Source: Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet

“It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.”

Thinking Accepting

Author:Nora Roberts

“I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.”

Matter Granted Never Take Anything For Granted

Book:Summer Love: (InterMix)

Source: Summer Love: (InterMix)

“He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books." ~Eternity in Death”

Book Laughter Vampire Dallas Slayer Eve Dallas

Author:Nora Roberts

“People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.”

People Source Entertainment Balanced Irritation

Author:Nora Roberts

“I'm sorry. It's Hard for me. I do love you," she said quietly. "Sometimes it scares me because you're the first. And the only" He held her there until he was sure he could speak, then eased her back, looked into her eyes "You've chaged my life. Become my life." He touched his lips to hers, let the kiss deepen slowly, silkily. "I need you”

Needs Firsts Said Sometimes Hard Eye Speak Love You Kissing Sorry Lips Touched Scare Her Eyes I'm Sorry Need You I Need You

Author:Nora Roberts

“Into the night, in the dark, he lay beside her, listening to her breathe. He knew the varied and sundry reasons a man would kill. But none were more fierce, none were more vital than to hold safe what he loved.”

Men Reason Night Dark Listening Safe Lays Breathe Fierce

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

“I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.”

Want Should Heard I Want You

Book:Table for Two: Summer Desserts\Lessons Learned

Source: Table for Two: Summer Desserts\Lessons Learned

“Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I don't catch a cold.”

Trying House Cold Ghost Kill Me Considerate Amelia

Author:Nora Roberts

“Sometimes I just want to gobble you whole, eat you alive. You're so gorgeous. You're so beautiful.”

Want Sometimes Whole Beautiful Alive Gorgeous You Re So Beautiful

Book:J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

Source: J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection

About the Author

Born: October 10, 1950
Known for: Author
Quotes: 556

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