Quotes by Nora Roberts

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Roz to Amelia (the house ghost): How considerate of you, after trying to kill me, to see that I dont catch a cold.

New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didnt really give a goddamn whether he sank or swam. He liked its selfishness and its generosity and its propensity for flipping the bird to the rest of the world.

I can fix a bad page. I cant fix a blank page.

I would hope that my writings cleaner than it was when I started.

“love wasnt the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with its twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.”

“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)”

“He wont be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...Hell be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.”

“ A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.”

“He wanted to be a poet, someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. Said hed only lacked the words to be one.”

“Oh, God. God, isnt that perfect? Hes Dad. Hes Dad with a layer of nerd. Solid, steady, chipping away so patiently, you dont even know youve had your shields hacked down until youre defenseless. Its the type. Youre not in love with a type, youre in love with a man, Penny corrected. Or youre not.”

“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, its hit me when it comes to you”

“I guess money cant buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lovers tears.”

“Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?”

“Are you telling me youre cooking me dinner?- Regan Its the quickest way, without physical contact, to get a woman into bed. The kitchen through there?”

“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....”

“As a rule of thumb, Id say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. But if youre going to try to write the virginal amnesiac twin disguised as a boy mistaken for the mother (or father depending how well the disguise works) of a secret baby, honey, you better have some serious skills. Or seek therapy.”