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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
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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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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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The state calls Paul Winthrop to the stand. ... Paul answered the opening questions briefly, weighing his words, his eyes on Julia's. Would you tell the court the nature of your relationship with Miss Summers? I'm in love with Miss Summers. The faintest of smiles touched his lips. Completely in love with Miss Summers.
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The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.
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I hate patience. Slows everything down.
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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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[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.
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In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
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I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.
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Love without trust? It's not love at all.
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I was just trying to get his attention! the man protested at the top of his lungs. If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.
Nora Roberts
love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many women, that pushed them to compromised their own wants, their own needs for the needs and wants of another.
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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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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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Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?
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Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.
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What is technology? Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. It's another god.
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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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She wants to learn how to handle a gun. Well, I want George Clooney naked in my bed, but I haven't attempted kidnapping. Yet.
Nora Roberts
Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls. Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm on the ground. Roarke: And how many vehicles have you wrecked, had blown up, or destroyed in the last, oh, two years? Eve: Think about that, then imagine it happening when I'm at the wheel at thirty thousand feet. Roarke: Good point. I'll do the flying.
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