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I want you to take note, Commander, that turning in my badge would be like cutting off my arm. But if it comes down to a choice between the job and my marriage, then I lose the arm.

Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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It's about us. It's about trust.
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Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?
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Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.
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I want you more than I should, she heard herself say. I have you less than I want.
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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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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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I don't like the idea of you shivering unless I cause it. Stay warm. ----Roarke, Naked In Death
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If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.
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