Born in Ice Quotes

“It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson."

But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.

Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations he had no desire to face.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Make your days count. Don’t invest all your efforts in the future. You miss too much of the now.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“And he had no qualms whatsoever about prying into someone’s private thoughts and experiences. And no guilt about hoarding his own.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“golden years, taxpayers,”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Changing a life is an effortful thing, my dear. It takes work and patience and determination.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Strangers are treated as friends, and friends never as strangers.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Love survives, you see. Through fear, through heartache, even through death.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“To relax, she got down on hands and knees and scrubbed the kitchen floor.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“ring after ring”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Owning land, he mused, being responsible for it. Plowing, planting, tending, watching things grow. Keeping an eye on the sky, sniffing the air for a turn in the weather. Not a life for Grayson Thane, he thought, but imagined some would find it rewarding. There’d been that simple pride of ownership in Murphy Muldoon’s walk—a man who knew his feet were planted on his own.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“He almost felt guilty about bringing even fictional murder and mayhem to such a place. Almost.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“That’s not my concern just now. This man—” “Grayson Thane,” Brianna supplied, more than grateful the topic had turned away from their mother. “A respected American author who has designs on a quiet room in a well-run establishment in the west of Ireland. He doesn’t have designs on his landlady.” She picked up her tea, sipped. “And he’s going to pay for my greenhouse.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice

“Irish. I should have known it. Such a gift of gab you’ve got, and all the charm in the world.”
― Nora Roberts , Born in Ice

“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Ice