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There are no dead ends, just detours.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
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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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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now.
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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
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How's it going down there? It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.
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The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?
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The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.
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Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy.Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend the rest of their time trying to figure out how to change him. Then if they manage it, they're not all that interested anymore, because guess what? He's not the one anymore.
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love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.
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If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.
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Why couldn't she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow's? Why let the maybe's, the what if's, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?
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So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again? What makes you think i ever stopped?
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The purest magic is in the heart.
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It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.
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Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
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-The little things,Emma. The gestures,the moments. And the big. I let him see my heart. I gave it to him,even when I believed he couldn't or wouldn't take it. I gave it anyway-a gift. Even if he broke it. I was very brave. Love is very brave.
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We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.
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He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.
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