The Awakening Quotes

“Do you have a favorite book?
Why a favorite when there are so many, and I haven't read all of them?”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“You have a chance and a choice to be what you are. To build on all that came before, reach for what comes next. To fail, well, greatness rises from first failures.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Girl, take it from an old queen: be who you are and the hell with the rest.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“It takes a bit of time, but why hurry through the day just to get to the next?”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“You start with earth and good intentions.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Nerves aren’t shameful. Not acting because of them is.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“We are people of the land, we are artists and craftsmen, storytellers, but we are also a world of laws. Most are not unlike the laws you know. To take a life, to take what is not yours or not given freely, to force another to lie with you, to neglect a child or animal. All of these acts cause harm, and our first law is to cause no harm.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“You have to look to find. You have to ask to have the answers. You have to awaken to become.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“If the worlds were as we wish, the light would be only for joy and beauty, for healing and help. But the worlds are not what we wish. So we use the light to protect and shield, to fight the dark, even kill.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Friendship’s the bread of life, isn’t it now?”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“A place it was—or was meant to be—for prayer and good works and contemplation. But there are always some, aren’t there, who believe what they believe is the only. And will do whatever it takes to force that belief on all. For me, those who would kill and burn and enslave in the name of a god, well, they don’t hear the god they claim to worship. Or the god is a false and cruel one.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“people”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“the symbol of a sword crossed with a staff.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Know thyself. —Inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. —Aristotle”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“It’s all connected, you see, young Breen. The earth, the air, the water that falls from the sky, the sun that brings the light and warmth. And all that grows—the plants, the animals, the people. The bees that buzz, the birds that fly, all bound together.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“a dragon no bigger than the palm of her hand. “Hello. You’re Lonrach, because that’s what you are. Brilliant.” She held out a hand, thrilled when he settled on her palm. “And you’re mine.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“She saw its ruby-red wings tipped with gold like its—his, she knew, his—eyes. Not a bird, not at all, but a dragon no bigger than the palm of her hand. “Hello. You’re Lonrach, because that’s what you are. Brilliant.” She held out a hand, thrilled when he settled on her palm. “And you’re mine.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“A stone, she realized, big as a baby’s fist, with dozens of smaller ones glinting on the gold links of the chain. And the clasp, clear through the water, a dragon in flight.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“It’s pronounced ‘misnaw.’ It’s Irish for ‘courage’—I looked it up. And it’s your fault I have a tattoo on my wrist.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Era un lugar para la oración, las buenas obras y la contemplación, o eso se pretendía. Pero siempre hay alguien que cree que lo que cree es lo único que se puede creer, ¿verdad? Y que hará lo que haga falta para obligar a los demás a creerlo. Para mí, los que matan, queman y esclavizan en nombre de un dios, bueno, es porque no están escuchando al dios al que pretenden adorar. O porque su dios es falso y cruel.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Beau, you handsome bastard, it’s Sally. I’m better than I look and I look fabulous.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“Science changes generation by generation—and more. Once in the realm of Earth the science said the world was flat—until they said it wasn’t. Science changes, mo stór. Magick is constant.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“All the time wasted—” “Not wasted, no. Never wasted. Every day is a gift, every day you learn.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“And if you don’t send it off, see what’s what, it’s already rejected, isn’t it?”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“abjure”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“To have the courage to do all of that,”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“living happy as you can, loving hard as you can. Taking care when care’s needed.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“You have to look to find. You have to ask to have the answers.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening

“the day become. A day, he knew, of change and choice, of hope and power.”
― Nora Roberts, The Awakening