01Undated...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
02UndatedShe sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could never figure out how to turn a theme into an engaging tale. So she read instead, and admired those who could.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
03UndatedYou walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge. I'm not trying to be a challenge. It's one of the things that makes you one.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
04UndatedHe 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedYou don't want some tacky Vegas fly-by. You're serious. You're serious about friendships, about your work, your family. You're serious about Star Wars, and you active dislike of Jar Jar Binks---""Well, God. Come on, anyone who---""You're serious," she continued before he went on a Jar Jar rant, "about living your life on your terms, and being easygoing doesn't negate that one bit. You're serious about what kind of kryptonite is more lethal to Superman.""You have to go with the classic green. I told you, the gold can strip Kryptonians' powers permanently, but---"......"Mkae all the lists you want, Cilla. Love? It's green kryptonite. it powers out all the rest.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
06UndatedMy own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?Nora Roberts / quote ↗
07UndatedCourage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
09UndatedShe pressed her mouth to his throat, his shoulder, would have absorbed him into her skin if she'd known a way.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
10UndatedYou're going to need this," she said, and pulled out a condom."At some point, we're also going to need a defibrillator and a fire extinguisher.""Promises, promises.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
11UndatedWell, I'd have more zing with George Clooney and Harrison Ford in a threesome, but neither of us are going to get that wish.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
12UndatedHappily 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.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
13UndatedFictional people are people, too, otherwise why would we care what happens to them?Nora Roberts / quote ↗
14UndatedGrayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?Nora Roberts / quote ↗
15UndatedTake a few minutes.""No. He's already had more of my time than he was entitled to."Yes, he thought as she walked out of his office. Very much like her grandmother.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
16UndatedFamily’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
17UndatedAll he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
18UndatedShannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
21UndatedWords have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
22UndatedI am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.Nora Roberts / quote ↗
24UndatedI think you're under no obligation whatsoever to forgive anything, to forget anything. You're not required to push away the years of abuse because the abuser now chooses to be sober and in his sobriety regrets his actions. And white may be small and unforgiving of me, I think people who do so at the snap of a dam finger are either liars or are in need of serious therapy. I assume you heard him out, so in my personal opinion, any debt you might owe for your existence is now paid in full. It may be fashionable to hold that terrible actions are indeed terrible, but that hte person inflicting them isn't responbile due to alcohol, drugs, DNA, or GD PMS. He damn well was responsible, and if you decided to loathe him for the rest of your life, I wouldn't blame you for it. How's that?" (Cybil to Gage - she ROCKS)Nora Roberts / quote ↗
