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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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It's more than you think it can be, she heard herself say. It changes everything, and fixes everything that matters. Maybe you're never going to be the same, and maybe part of you is always afraid of what will happen if...but he's always going to be there. All you have to do is reach out, and he's going to be there.
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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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To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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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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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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The worst, the very worst requirement of friendship, in Eve Dallas's opinion, was sitting through an entire evening of childbirth classes. What went on there--the sights, the sounds, the assault on all the senses--turned the blood cold.
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We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.
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What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates?
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And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters. The waters, he said, were not receptive. If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.
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...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
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I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.
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Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.
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Look, if some guy dressed in his mother's clothes breaks in, fight him off until I get my pants back on.
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You saved me, Eve. He watched her blink in absolute shock. What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me. He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.
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Every single book is a challenge.
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Women are the worst. They zero in on some guy.Oh boy, he's the one, gotta get me that one. So they do. Then they spend the rest of their time trying to figure out how to change him. Then if they manage it, they're not all that interested anymore, because guess what? He's not the one anymore.
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Retirement wasn't a reward at the end of a well-run career ... it was a void surrounded by endless dull hours, haunted by memories of work.
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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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Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.
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