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There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
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Nora Roberts
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Eleanor Marie Robertson
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Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
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He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.
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Good fiction creates its own reality.
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Happily ever after? If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.
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It doesn't matter, that's the point. It doesn't matter that things don't always work exactly the way you thought they should. Moments matter. People matter, how they feel, how they connect. Who they are alone and together. All that matters, no matter how quickly the moment passes. Maybe because it passes.
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We all look. The lucky find.
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I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.
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I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.
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Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
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My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.
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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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Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.
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If love doesn't make a fool of us, what will?
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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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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
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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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Fine, you do that, and you tell them that at the very first opportunity, I'm coming down there and killing all of them. Mass murder. And after they're all dead, I'm going to kick the bodies around, dance on top of them, and sing a happy song. No jury will convict me.
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Three weeks hadn't changed Cop Central. The coffee was still poisonous, the noise abominable, and the view out of her stingy window was still miserable. She was thrilled to be back.
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A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
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Make a life with me, one that comes from love, one that I can watch grow in you. Only a fool would believe that what comes from what we have together would be anything but beautiful.
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