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If you don't read for pleasure, you'll lose your edge as a writer.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
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Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.
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You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female. McNab? Eve said. Yes, sir. Shut up. It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple. A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
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I want to keep you, till the end of days.
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Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.
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... a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.
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I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat. Peabody mopped at her face. Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why. With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. I'll buy you a dozen, precious. Cannolis, for God's sake.
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Bite me. -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
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Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer. I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation, Flynn promised.
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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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Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.
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Happy Fuller: Somehow you always love in a special way the one who gives you the most grief.
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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.
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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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I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.
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Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.
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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
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Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.
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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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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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