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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 73
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
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Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
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People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.
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There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.
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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.
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Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
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Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow
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I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.
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Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
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It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.
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I don't think I am a traditional romantic who thinks about candlelight dinners and wonders if my husband is going to bring me flowers, though I'm delighted if he does. I'm more practical-minded. I find it incredibly romantic that my husband does the dishes.
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In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
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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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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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A good story's like a door, and you can go through it whenever you need to. After you've read it or seen it or heard it, you can still go back through it. Once it's yours, it's always yours.
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Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?
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My apartment's only about a block away. Isn't that handy. Fate, he countered as he took a seat on the sofa and made himself at home. Fantasic, isn't it? One day very soon, I'm going to tell you what you can do with that fate of yours.
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squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place
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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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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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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
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