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I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.
Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.
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You have to unhook your seat belt. That's not true. I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the beach if you're strapped to a car seat.
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No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
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When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
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People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.
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You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.
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Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?
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If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.
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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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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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Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.
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Eve-In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process? Roarke-Amen
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It’s good to be with someone when you know you matter. Not assume,” she qualified, “but know. To be with someone, who even when you don’t think you want or need it, will stand up for you. Someone who sends you flowers and buys you magic wands. I’m not going to look around the corner for what’s next.
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There are no dead ends, just detours.
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The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that.
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I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.
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Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
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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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