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If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You need to dig in those footers, start building on that base. You want something to last, you put your back into it.

Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?
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I want to see you again. He stopped, took her face in his hands. I need to see you again. Her pulse jumped, as if it had nothing to do with the rest of her. Roarke, what's going on here? Lieutenant. He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. indications are we're having a romance.
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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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That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.
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The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.
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A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
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Why don't you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.
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You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls. It's not a fashion accessory.
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A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then you can have all the talent in the world, and you aren't going to finish a book.
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