Nora Roberts Quotes

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree in the living room. All those presents under it, all that anticipation. Just a way of saying there's always light and hope in the world.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

Life has very little even ground.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

You can't edit a blank page

Courage 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.

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

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

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.