Roberta > Roberta 's Quotes

“Don’t turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride. One’s cold without the other.”
― Nora Roberts, The Donovan Legacy Collection

“Love is an empty word without respect.”
― Nora Roberts, For Now, Forever

“But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Are we at the cusp of a second Great Leap Forward? Or are we doomed to fall backward once again?”
― James Rollins, The Bone Labyrinth

“The real treasures of this world cannot be purchased with any sum of money. But they can be given away for free.”
― Melody Carlson, The Christmas Shoppe: A Christmas Novella

“Our Lord reminded his disciples to show hospitality. He said there could be times when they might help or bless a stranger and in reality be blessing him. Be mindful of this as so many of you open your homes to family and loved ones and life becomes somewhat hectic. Perhaps it is in those moments, when all is not going smoothly and well, perhaps that is the very moment when you might discover the Lord is right there in your midst.”
― Melody Carlson, The Christmas Bus

“Stay on good terms with each other,’ ” he read slowly, putting emphasis on each word, “‘held together by love.”
― Melody Carlson, The Christmas Bus

“Why, some have extended hospitality to angels without ever knowing it!”
― Melody Carlson, The Christmas Bus

“I’d rather have a few wonderful years with love than a long life with animosity.”
― Melody Carlson, The Christmas Bus

“We don’t welcome death; we covet the discontinuation of life’s agonizing sorrow.”
― Leslie Wolfe, Stories Untold

“It’s not the load that breaks us down, sweetheart. It’s how we learn to carry it.”
― Irish Winters, Alex

“This is what dying is like, he thinks. You do it alone. You are debased by it. You are exposed to your own weaknesses and to the harsh reality of what it means.”
― Terry Brooks, Armageddon's Children

“Centuries of enlightenment and progress vanished virtually overnight because Men couldn’t find a way to use it wisely and purposefully.”
― Terry Brooks, Bearers of the Black Staff

“Blood didn’t make the parents. Love did.”
― Tricia O'Malley, Stone Song

“expectations were the death of dreams.”
― Tricia O'Malley, Spear Song

“The heart that gives, gathers.” – Tao Te Ching”
― Tricia O'Malley, Sphere Song

“the world would be a lot happier if love found people instead of people chasing it down by trolling bars or the Internet.”
― Ava Miles, The Calendar of New Beginnings

“For so many people marriage has come to mean a power struggle, and that causes a heap of problems, like one person getting their way and trampling all over the other person’s thoughts or wishes. But partnership is different.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“money can’t buy love. Love buys love. And hard work is admirable. But loss is inescapable.”
― Robyn Carr, What We Find

“But when they got closer they realized she was just too much for them.”
― Barbara Freethy, Silent Fall

“People always liked her from a distance. But when they got closer they realized she was just too much for them.”
― Barbara Freethy, Silent Fall

“there was no greater joy than having a child, no matter how much pain or how many problems they bring with them.”
― Barbara Freethy, Daniel's Gift

“You can't stop the thunder. You just have to let it roll over you. And then when it's done, you get up and keep going.”
― Barbara Freethy, Reckless Whisper

“I always felt as if I were on an island. There were people around me, but they weren't really with me.”
― Barbara Freethy, Reckless Whisper

“Courage isn’t the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important.”
― Kait Nolan, To Get Me To You

“You make your plans, and God laughs at you,”
― Roxanne St. Claire, Bad to the Bone

“It all boils down to money and power and to hell with the meadow that’s flattened while the elephants and donkeys dance for dollars.”
― Elizabeth Lowell, The Wrong Hostage

“My best advice is this—by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It’s not winning that’s really winning. It’s never giving up.”
― Robyn Carr, Any Day Now

“It’s not what you get in life that will make you whole, but what you give.”
― Robyn Carr, The Family Gathering

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. —LAO TZU”
― Robyn Carr, The Family Gathering