Nora Roberts Quotes - Page 14

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Because you’re the one. Because I’ve never felt for anyone what I feel for you. I want a lifetime with you, Abigail. I want a home with you, family with you. I want to make children with you, raise them with you. If you truly don’t want any of that with me, I’ll give you the best I’ve got, and hope you change your mind. I just need you to tell me you don’t want it.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

You mess with one Quinn, you mess with them all.

It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their world around for me, and because of it, turned mine around with it. Anna and Grace and Sybill, Aubrey too. They made a home for me, and nothing that happened before matters nearly as much as everything that came after.

But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out

What is technology?... It's another god.

I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

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

Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.

It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

Can you stand a little closer?" "Hmm?" "You smell good. I like to smell you.

Nobody's that naive," she muttered. "Nobody's that guileless." "He's from Nebraska." Peabody scanned her pocket unit. "From where?" "Nebraska." Peabody waived a hand, vaguely west.... "They still grow them pretty guileless in Nebraska. I think it's all that soy and corn.

She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.

Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.

I changed your life.” She looked down at the peach they shared. “You changed min. I’m glad of it.” And back into his eyes. “Every day. I’m glad of it. I’d like a pond, and maybe something to sit on so we could watch the creepy, interesting fish.” “That would suit me very well.” She linked her arms around his neck, laid her cheek on his. Love finds a way, she thought.