Jewels of the Sun Quotes

“Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love.
--Prince Carrick”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again." Kathy sighed. "I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude?"

"No." She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? "No one special."

"If they're not special, what would the point be?”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“They never see what you are." Shocked, Jude glanced around to see who'd spoken, then realized she had.

"Don't they?" Brenna wanted to know, lifting her brow as she topped off Jude's glass yet again.

"They see a reflection of their own perception. Whore or angel, mother or child. Depending on their view, they're compelled to protect or conquer or exploit. Or you're a convenience," she murmured.
"Easily discarded.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Love, even when pledged, isn't enough.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“It’s odd that I never realized this is so much what I want. A home. A place where people I enjoy and who enjoy me will come when they like. Will feel comfortable and easy. Maybe it wasn’t solitude I was looking for after all when I so rashly flew to Ireland. It was what I’ve had over these last hours. Companionship, laughter, foolishness, and well, romance. I suppose I didn’t realize it because I never let myself really wish for it. Now without even the wish, here it is.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Come away! O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. —W. B. YEATS”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“O amor, qualquer que seja o tempo, quaisquer que sejam os obstáculos, dura sempre.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“The words weren’t so important, Aidan thought. It was just so soothing to listen to her.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“You’re well and truly hooked, Gallagher, he thought, and decided he rather enjoyed the sensation.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“She started to speak, to ask politely for a glass of white wine. Then he smiled, a slow, lazy curving of lips that inexplicably set her insides a fluttering and turned her mind into a buzzing mess of static.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“The woman’s managed what hasn’t been done in thirty-one years. She’s broke my god dawn nose”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“And when she dreamed, she dreamed of a battle fought on a green hill where the sunlight flashed on swords like jewels, of faeries dancing in the forest where the moonlight lay as tears on the leaves, and of a deep blue sea that beat like a heart against the waiting shore. And through all the dreams, the one constant thing was the sound of a woman’s quiet weeping.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“That's a kind of magic, isn't it? Every bit as much as faeries and spells and winged horses. I'm accepted here, not for what I do, or where I come from, or where I went to school. I'm accepted for who I am. For who, more importantly, I'm finally letting myself become.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“If God didn't want a woman's lips to be kissed, he wouldn't have made them so easy to reach.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Words are important, to everyone. When they're not said, they leave holes.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are hard, it's perfect truth.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“It's discouraging not to be good at what you've chosen as your life's work."

"Your life is far from done, so you've more than time enough to choose again. And I'll wager you were better at it than you decided to believe.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“You don't know me. If I haven't figured myself out yet, you can't know me.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“Love, whatever the time, whatever the obstacles, lasts.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“I believe in magic, and that the best of it, the most true of it, is in the heart.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“I like looking at you.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“...he didn't intend to marry just for responsiblity. There would be love, and passion, and the meeting of minds before there were vows.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

“You're a good girl, Jude, but you don't have to be good all the time.”
― Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun