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My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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What was your secret? That brought another smile. Learn to laugh, otherwise, you'll beat them to death with a hammer first chance
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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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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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I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
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My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.
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What about your crepe? Stuff It. She's crazy about you, Mavis commented. It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns.
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
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Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
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You are wise as well as short. I can also break bricks with my bare hands. That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.
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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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A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
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She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.
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Nature will kill you without a minute's thought, and in nastier ways than a crazy guy with agun. It doesn't make her any less beautiful.
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A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
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Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.
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I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.
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Vending Machine: This product has no known nutritional value and may cause irritability or wakefulness in some individuals. Please enjoy your selection and your day. Eve: Up yours.
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No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
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