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Nora Roberts Inspirational Quotes (271)

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Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
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She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.
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I want to see you again. He stopped, took her face in his hands. I need to see you again. Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. Roarke, what's going on here? Lieutenant. He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. indications are we're having a romance.
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If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!
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Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
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Okay. Look, why don't you take care of the half a million things you've been letting dangle in Roarke's Empire of Everything? Catchy title. I may use it one day.
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You are wise as well as short. I can also break bricks with my bare hands. That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.
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Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.
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Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River. Eve: I think it'd be embarrassing to be dead in the Hoochie-Coochie River. Roarke: Chattahoochee Eve: What's the difference? Roarke: Quite a bit, I'd think.
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Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.
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It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.
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Parker: She believed, absolutely, that each person, each heart, had a counterpart—had a mate. A rightness. She’d always believed it, and understood that unshakable belief was a reason she was good at what she did.
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It doesn't matter how long it takes. She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. It's how long it lasts.
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he wouldn't mention, now or then, the illegal nine-millimeter automatic he had in his pocket. Why distress the woman you loved with minor details?
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.
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I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. ----Roarke, Naked In Death
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
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You love tests? Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
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Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.
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...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
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Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.
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I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.
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