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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
Nora Roberts
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Nora Roberts
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
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I don't want to be expected to fall in passively someone else's plans for me. That's what I don't want. I don't want it assumed that I simply don't have any personal goals or wishes of my own. Or any basic competence of my own. That's what I don't want!
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The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I gave him ID.” “It’s a sick world, Eve.” He resisted taking her hand for another squeeze. “A sick, sad world.
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She raised her eyes to his. They had both come from misery, she thought, and survived it. They had been drawn together through violence and tragedy, and had overcome it. They walked different paths and had found a mutual route. Some things last, she thought. Some ordinary things. Like love.
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But when two people feel something, they ought to respect that enough to figure it out
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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.
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It shouldn't make you sad to know you're loved, Grayson. But it did. It made him sad, and panicked, and for just a moment, wishful.
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Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
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...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
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I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed in with the kids in the blizzard of '79 - 3 feet of snow. I live in a rural area and was stuck. No morning kindergarten - it was a nightmare.
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There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.
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You--Roarke. Eyes watering, she reached for more tissue. Jesus, Eve. Jesus Christ, you never sleep with anybody. And you're telling me you slept with Roarke? That's not precisely accurate. We didn't sleep.
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He looked around when he heard a window-rattling roar. Earthquake? Volcano? Nuclear war? Beaver, Peter told him. I don't care if it is Alaska, you don't have beavers big enough to sound like that.
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When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.
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I got you a present. Did you? It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work
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In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.
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If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.
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...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
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A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
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Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.
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And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.
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