"Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now...."
— Nora Roberts (The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex)

"You can fix anything but a blank page."
— Nora Roberts

"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."
— Nora Roberts

"Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love."
— Nora Roberts (Tears of the Moon)

"I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word."
— Nora Roberts

"Good fiction creates its own reality."
— Nora Roberts (The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex)

"Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure."
— Nora Roberts (High Noon)

"The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears."
— Nora Roberts (Born in Fire (Born In trilogy #1))

"That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea."
— Nora Roberts (Black Rose)

"I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two. "
— Nora Roberts

""You can't edit a blank page" "
— Nora Roberts

"A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only."
— Nora Roberts (Face the Fire)

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

"When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions."
— Nora Roberts

"You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread."
— Nora Roberts

"[She] knew there were women who worked successfully out of the home. They ran businesses, created empires and managed to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children who went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard or became world-renowned concert pianists. Possibly both.

These women accomplished all this while cooking gourmet meals, furnishing their homes with Italian antiques, giving clever, intelligent interviews with Money magazine and People, and maintaining a brilliant marriage with an active enviable sex life and never tipping the scale at an ounce over their ideal weight...

She knew those women were out there. If she'd had a gun, she'd have hunted every last one of them down and shot them like rabid dogs for the good of womankind."
— Nora Roberts (Birthright)

""I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.""
— Nora Roberts (Face the Fire)

"
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women. "
— Nora Roberts

"She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. "
— Nora Roberts (Key of Knowledge)

"'He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.'"
— Nora Roberts (Born in Fire (Born In trilogy #1))

"You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down."
— Nora Roberts (Tears of the Moon)

""Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.""
— Nora Roberts (Blue Smoke)

""What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.""
— Nora Roberts (Morrigan's Cross)

"My boyfriend and I are badasses. "
— Nora Roberts (The Pagan Stone)

"" Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many."
" I never thought about it quite that way."
" Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat."
— Nora Roberts (Daring to Dream)

"pg. 106

A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth."
— Nora Roberts

""What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly." "
— Nora Roberts (Morrigan's Cross)

"Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love.
--Prince Carrick"
— Nora Roberts (Jewels of the Sun)

"Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy."
— Nora Roberts (Vision in White)

""Did he mean me or Jenny Mullendore was a slut?" Joanne wondered. "Because honestly, I don't see how she has the time for slut activities with those two preschoolers of hers. Me, I've got lots of time." "
— Nora Roberts (The Pagan Stone)

"Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go."
— Nora Roberts (Daring to Dream)

"pg. 320

"I'm wondering, if there was something you wanted, had wanted for some time, what would you do about it?"

"If I've wanted it, why don't I have it?"

"Because you haven't made any real effort to get it as yet."

"And why haven't I?" He arched his sandy brows. "Am I slow or just stupid?"

Brenna thought it over, decided he couldn't know he'd just insulted his first born. Then she nodded slowly. "Maybe a bit of both in this particular case."

Relieved to have the conversation turn to a safe area, he gave her a fierce grin. "Then I'd stop being slow and I'd stop being stupid and I'd take good aim at what I wanted and not dawdle about. Because when an O'Toole takes aim, by Jesus, he hits his mark.

That, she knew, was true enough. And was certainly expected. "But maybe you're a bit nervous and not quite sure of your skill in this area."

"Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
— Nora Roberts (Tears of the Moon)

"Eve rose stiffly when he strode out of the house. In silence, she watched Julia look after him. "The male ego," Eve murmured as she crossed the room to put an arm around Julia's shoulders. "It's a huge and fragile thing. I always envision it as an enormous penis made of thin glass.""
— Nora Roberts (Genuine Lies)

"We all look. The lucky find."
— Nora Roberts (Heart of the Sea)

"" What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a single thing you wanted, never had to worry if you'd be accepted or loved or wanted back."
He stared at her, grateful for the moment that she couldn't see that he'd spent nearly half of his life worrying that she, the single thing he wanted, would accept him, love him, and want him back. "
— Nora Roberts (Daring to Dream)

"Then I saw it, and it just grabbed me. That moment, that breath just before destiny, between innocence and power. He'll pull the sword free. You know it. And in that moment, the world changes. Camelot's born, Arthur's fate is sealed. He'll unite a people, be betrayed by a woman and a friend, and sire the man who'll kill him. In this moment, he's a boy. In the next he'll be a king."
— Nora Roberts (Key of Light)

"People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill."
— Nora Roberts (High Noon)

"And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
"
— Nora Roberts

"I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want! "
— Nora Roberts (Treasures)

"I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me."
— Nora Roberts

"I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you."
— Nora Roberts

"Pg. 48

"He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again." Kathy sighed. "I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude?"

"No." She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? "No one special."

"If they're not special, what would the point be?"
— Nora Roberts (Jewels of the Sun)

"Girl, if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."
— Nora Roberts (Tears of the Moon)

"" What do you think? Does everything look right? "
" You really expect me to look at anything but you? "
She laughed even as her pulse jittered. " Boy, I must be in bad shape when a shopworn line like that hits the mark. "
" I mean it, " he said and watched her smile fade. " I adore looking at you. " Laying a hand on her knees with a long, slow, thorough kiss. " Beautiful Margo. mine. "
" Well, you're certainly taking my mind off my ... kiss me again. "
" Glad to. " "
— Nora Roberts (Daring to Dream)

"Pg. 106

A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude muttered as she sat down beside Maude's grave. 'She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true.' She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. 'Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth."
— Nora Roberts (Jewels of the Sun)

"He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table.
'Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.'"
— Nora Roberts

"The room was a compact, informal library. Books stood or were stacked on the shelves that ran along two walls from floor to ceiling, sat on the tables like knickknacks, trooped around the room like soldiers. They struck Malory as more than knowledge or entertainment, even more than stories or information. They were colour and texture, in a haphazard yet somehow intricate decorating scheme.
The short leg of the L-shaped room boasted still more books, as well as a small table that held the remains of Dana's breakfast.
With her hands on her hips, Dana watched Malory's perusal of her space. She'd seen the reaction before. 'No I haven't read them all, but I will.And no I don't know how many I have. Want coffee?'
'Let me just ask this. Do you ever actually use the services of the library?'
"Sure, but I need to own them. If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.'"
— Nora Roberts

"page:146
-So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again?
-What makes you think i ever stopped?"
— Nora Roberts (Hidden Riches)

"Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow"
— Nora Roberts

"((Doc is getting ready to do a Pap-smear on Reece))

"Looks healthy," Doc commented.

"Good, because it hasn't been getting any exercise in quite a while." When she heard Willow smother a laugh, Reece just closed her eyes. She had to remember some old saying about being careful of thoughts. They become words."
— Nora Roberts (Angels Fall)