The Obsession Quotes

“You put something behind you, it's got its eyes on your back. I'd rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it's going.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“What the hell are you doing?”

“What the hell does it look like I’m doing?”

“It looks like you’re putting pants on that dog.”

“Then that’s what the hell I’m doing.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“You have a sixty-seven GTO convertible, in factory red.” He stood in reverent silence for ten full seconds. “I think you have to marry me now. You’re the first woman besides Loo who’s seen her and known what she is. I’m pretty sure we’re engaged.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“There could be pockets of normal even in the middle of the awful.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Don’t hate me.”

“Does anybody?”

“Kevin’s old high school girlfriend.”

“Because she’s a slut.”

Jenny beamed. “I didn’t realize you knew Candy.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“What I’m saying—I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it’s important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“sometimes, as you ought to remember, you want some conversation, some meat along with the sizzle. Bonnie had the sizzle, but I knew it wasn’t going to be enough, even for the summer, when she picked up a copy of East of Eden I had on the nightstand and said she didn’t know I was religious.” “Religious?” “She figured Eden—so it must be a biblical story. She didn’t even know who Steinbeck was.” And he could still shake his head over that. “Even an overbite can’t make up for that.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“You put something behind you, Nome, it’s got its eyes on your back. I’d rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it’s going.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“You walked in, and the air changed. It gives you an advantage and you're enough of a challenge.

I'm not trying to be a challenge.

It's one of the things that makes you one.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“And she’d fallen in love.
It couldn’t be that fast. It couldn’t be that simple. It couldn’t be.
But it was. She didn’t have to have felt it all before to know what tripped and stumbled inside her.
She breathed in, breathed out, took a good glug of wine.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“You want to pay me? Give me a slice of that pizza.”

“What? Seriously?”

“That’s Rinaldo’s pizza. I’ve got a weakness.”

“You want a slice of pizza?”

“It doesn’t seem like much to ask after I risked a concussion and possible brain damage to change your tire.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Closing her eyes, she said a special prayer of thanks for her uncle. She understood that she’d saved Ashley’s life. Now she thought Uncle Seth was saving hers.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Most of all, she was ready to be happy—all the way happy. To hold on to what she had, what she was building for herself.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“She could sit around and fat-ass all day.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“If you’re going to have your own, you have to know how to run a business.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“could take pictures”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Where there is a great deal of light, the shadows are deeper. JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“It’s praise and punish. It’s how they get you to do what they want, how they train you.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“FOR NOW, FOREVER”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“What he saw was her mixing up oil, the smoke, some garlic in a bowl. “They’re just potatoes.” “Not when I’m done with them.” In another bowl, she mixed salt, pepper, more garlic. Then she took one of her little knives and cut wedges out of the potatoes. “Why—” he began, but she just waved him off and put pats of butter in the wedges, then sprinkled the salt stuff in it before fitting the piece she’d cut out back on. “It’s a lot of trouble for—” She made a warning sound, rubbed the potatoes with the oil mixture, used the rest of the seasoning on them, then wrapped them in foil.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“A life of sunrises and lilacs, of friends and quiet moments. And a really good dog.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“He never had a first read on the nightstand, not if he wanted to sleep, so he settled in with the familiar and fascinating”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“Never. We lived by his moods, just like you said, and that’s how he liked it.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“sat in the chair beside him. “Your studio’s nearly finished,” he told her, and threw her off balance. “After tomorrow, day after latest, you can set it up.” They’d talk of something else, she realized, of anything else but the unthinkable. “Can’t wait.” “We’ll get the desk, the equipment in there for you. A couple more weeks, we’re going to be out of here. Well, three. We should be out in three.” “You’ve brought the house back to life, Kevin.” “We have,” he said just before the dog leaped up and raced off the deck. “Xander,” Naomi told him. “He just knows—the way the bike sounds,”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“I want you. I want you under me and over me and around me. And you want.”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“moods.” “I can do that.” “I’ll let you go. Maybe if you see the lady—Naomi . . . If you see her, you could tell her I’m sorry about the trouble.” “I’ll do that. You take it easy.” “It’s the best way to take it.” Chip smiled a little, then climbed into his truck. Since it was close, and he was running a bit late now, Xander got into his own truck and drove”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“You put something behind you, Nome, it’s got its eyes on your back. I’d rather keep it in front of me, so I can see where it’s going.” -Mason Carson (Bowes)”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession

“follow-up, but the ugly bitch beside him”
― Nora Roberts, The Obsession