Northern Lights Quotes

“I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“What are these?”
Meg looked at the rings of keys in Nate’s hand, deliberately furrowed her brow. “Those would be keys.”
“Why do you need so many keys?”
“Because there are so many locks? Is this a quiz?”
He jingled them in his palm while she continued to give him a sunny, innocent smile. “Meg, you don’t even lock your doors half the time. What are all these keys about?”
“Well… There are times a person needs to get into a place, and hey, that place is locked. Then she would need a key.”
“And this place that, hey, is locked, wouldn’t be the property of that person. Would that be correct?”
“Techincally. But no man is an island, and it takes a village, and so on. We’re all one in the Zen universe.”
“So these would be Zen keys?”
“Exactly. Give them back.”
“I don’t think so.” He closed his fist around them. “You see, even in the Zen universe I’d hate to arrest my wife for unlawful entry.”
“I’m not your wife yet, buddy. Did you have a search warrant for those?”
“They were in plain sight. No warrant necessary.”
“Gestapo.”
“Delinquent.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. "Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war?"
"Beaver," Peter told him.
"I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Is staying quiet an interrogation technique?"
"It can be. It can be also called listening.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“I believe in payback. For the little things, for the big ones. For everything in between. Letting people screw you over is just lazy and uncreative.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“The romantics like to say you don’t have a choice who you love. I disagree. People pick and they choose. This is my choice.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Sex is simple, Nate. It’s everything else that’s complicated. So let’s be simple for now.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“It's all right to be crazy, it's not all right to be stupid.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“If he lost his mind in Lunacy, would he ever have had it to lose?”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Welcome to Lunacy.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Gorgeous is just lucky DNA. You're...vivid," he decided. "Compelling. That's the sort of thing that comes from inside spaces, so it's better than gorgeous. If you want my opinion.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Their life could be made up of thousands of simple moments. And still never be ordinary.”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“Their life could be made up of thousands of simple moments. And still never me ordinary”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“even high,” she said with a roll”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights

“but those mostly tourists or crazies. Man called Teek got himself stupid drunk”
― Nora Roberts, Northern Lights