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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
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Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
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You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female. McNab? Eve said. Yes, sir. Shut up. It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple. A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.
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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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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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Some romantic you are, Caine complained as he pushed the door open with his back.Whatever happened to women who liked to be swept off their feet? They got dropped, Diana said flatly.
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People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.
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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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He shook his head and eyed Roarke. You don't look like a cop. I'm not and thank you for noticing.
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Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
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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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You have to trust or you're only living half a life.
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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
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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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Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
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If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)
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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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You are who you are. I know you. You believe that? Yea but-- You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and Soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occassionally mean as a badger, and more generous that you'll admit.
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The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.
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A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
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