Inheritance Quotes

“Erosion happens gradually.” Winter rubbed Sonya’s shoulders. “A rock’s strong, but it doesn’t notice how the water’s wearing it away.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Light always wins. Sometimes it takes way too long, but it always wins.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“nothing held the pulse of a community like a bookstore.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“With my blade I took the first, then by my blood this house was cursed. One by one they wed, they die, because they seek to take what’s mine. And with their rings of gold, my spell will hold and hold.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“The mistake wasn’t in loving someone. He wasn’t faithful, and you ended it. You know what I haven’t heard from you? What did I do wrong? Why wasn’t I enough? What did he see in her he didn’t in me?”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“But bad people live in good places.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Mom told me what she had with Dad was magic.” Cleo glanced back. “And you want that?” “Yeah. Don’t you?” “Damn right I do. I think everybody in the world wants that, and the lucky make it. Because you don’t find magic, Son, you make it.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“She had the ocean, sandy beaches and rocky ones. Little towns that struck her more as villages. Forests, space. And, she couldn’t deny, beauty. She’d been a city or suburban creature all of her life. And though she found the inlets, the bays, the endless stretch of the Atlantic amazing, the sturdy charm of seacoast towns fascinating, she wondered how she’d manage. No quick runs to the market. No impulsive trips to a local restaurant or bar. No friendly neighbors next door or kids riding bikes down the sidewalk.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“understood the full meaning of poignant. It hurt, and it warmed, it brushed the dust off old sorrows even as it lifted new joy.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“I can’t say for absolute, but I believe I did absolutely.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“She smiled when he loosened his tie and flipped open the top button of his shirt. “And that’s why women often like men in ties.” “Because they like to see them wearing a noose?”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Most everything is in Poole’s Bay. That was my brother’s wife sold you a scarf. Friend of my mother’s daughter’s who makes them.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Some loves are forever.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“The beauty of small towns, Sonya discovered, was you’d have to work hard to get lost.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“When you had to fret over emojis, she thought, your dating skills needed honing.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“meant nothing compared to the satisfaction of doing what she loved, and the way she loved doing it.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Planning a wedding equaled insanity.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“bluebird in flight. “This is listed as Bluebird. The rooms have names.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“On a good clear day, when you’re not freezing your butt off, you might see whales sound.” “It doesn’t seem real. It’s starting to not seem real again.” “Hey, what’s the problem? You found out a few weeks ago your father had a twin brother, separated at birth, who died and left you a big old house on a cliff, a big pile of money—not to mention antiques and art. Only hitch is you’ve got to pack up, move, and live in the big old house where you don’t know anybody.” He shrugged. “Happens every day.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Because you don’t find magic, Son, you make it.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Sonya understood the full meaning of poignant. It hurt, and it warmed, it brushed the dust off old sorrows even as it lifted new joy.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“Sonya understood the full meaning of poignant. It hurt, and it warmed, it brushed the dust off old sorrows even as it lifted new joy. “He was so good.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“All houses wherein men have lived and died are haunted houses. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Haunted Houses”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“didn’t”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“I like weddings. They’re full of color and drama and joy.” “And drunken relatives.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance

“I’m more thrillers, fantasy, and a side of romance where the bad guys get what’s coming to them, the world is saved, and love eventually conquers.”
― Nora Roberts, Inheritance