Born in Fire Quotes

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“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

“Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“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.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“…the rain was a fine thing. She often preferred it to the warm slant of sun and the clear brilliance of cloudless blue skies. The rain was a soft gray curtain, tucking her away from the world.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“When you love with all you are, it isn't unhappiness alone you risk. It's heaven, too.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“Did people never fall in love with anyone who was eager to return in?”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan."
"And as able to make something strong between us.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“Don't let anything stop you from going where you need to go, from doing what you need to do. Make your mark on the world, and make it deep so it lasts.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“The need to take her was raging, some fatal drug that stabbed into his veins, speeding up his heartbeat and clouding his mind.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“unsteady for her to explore. “The”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“you’ve made it shine. I’m sorry I shouted at you.” “Oh, I’m used to that.” Despite her resigned tone, it was clear that”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“A man can't work too hard at something he loves.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“Nothing's more powerful than a woman at that instant before she gives herself.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“Da always said you'd be the good angel and I the bad. He was finally right about something.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“He called you his rose. He'd want you to bloom.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“I'll tell you this, when love comes, when the arrow strikes the heart, there's no stopping it. And even bleeding is a pleasure.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“When you love with all you are, it isn't unhappiness alone you risk. It's heaven too.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“There's nothing more precious than marriage and family. Nothing in the world.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“inside her. So different from an”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“Grief swarmed into her heart like angry bees.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

“upon that bottle you made me”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire