High Noon Quotes

“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

“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

“The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“me to make a mistake. He’s”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“I’m sorry, baby. I’m so sorry. What a terrible thing. Poor Roy. Poor Roy. The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn’t deserve to die like that.” “Mama!” “People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it to the bank they’re thinking ill.”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“here all those years ago, I thought maybe everything was going to be all right after all.” “And it was.”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“Children rip the heart right out of you. And it lies there all bruised and battered, still beating for them. No matter what.”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“weeping, her eyes exhausted from worry. “I did my best. I did all”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“swear, being in a hospital’s like being in a den of vampires. They never get enough of your blood.”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“up to twist her belly into knots. When it did, she’d just have to find a way to uncoil them until there was time, until there was a place. She had a whole checklist of priorities ahead of that one. On”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“She put it away, locked up the turmoil that seeing, hearing, watching Arnie Meeks had made swirl inside her. No time, no place for it now. It would come back, she knew, spurting”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“One of the layers was old hurts. How had he managed to bury that? She knew a lot about old hurts, and just how hard they were to keep down in the cellar of things. He didn’t wear his wounds as a point of pride, and many did. He might brood over them from time to time, and she appreciated a good brood herself. But he didn’t appear to let those old wounds, those old scars run his life. On”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“some brains. The second was that I take this opportunity, this gift, and make something of myself. I guess I looked like a balloon that had its air pricked out, because she laughed and laughed, and she gave me a slap on the arm. She told me if I needed to give her something, if I needed to do that to be happy, she’d like a pair of red shoes with heels and open toes. Size nine. Wouldn’t she be some sight going to church Sundays in those red shoes?”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she’d make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn’t piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon

“Or she could remember that sometimes pride was less important than doing what had to be done. She”
― Nora Roberts, High Noon