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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
Author
Businessperson
Legal Secretary
Novelist
Philanthropist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
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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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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Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the god of beer, thats why. He'd broken a commandment and worshipped the false and foamy god of beer. And now he was being punished.
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Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
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I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
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...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
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I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.
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It doesn't matter how long it takes. She thought of him, of them, the lifetime already shared. It's how long it lasts.
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I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.
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Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?
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My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.
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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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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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