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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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Businessperson
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
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Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
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You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls. It's not a fashion accessory.
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Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.
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Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.
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You saved me, Eve. He watched her blink in absolute shock. What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me. He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.
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Couples take care of each other, Clare, that's what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.
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We're not blank slates. What we've done, what we've survived all go into us.
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She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.
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I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
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I have to say you don't look anything like a policewoman. Maxia's perfect eyebrows arched as she gave Eve's dress a quick scan. Leonardo dresses you, doesn't he? No, I usually do it myself.
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Hey. Hands off.” , “Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch.” “Peabody, isn’t it embarrassing enough you’re wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?”, [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]
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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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In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.
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