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In the summer of 80, Silhouette bought my first book.

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Nora Roberts
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 10
Author
Businessperson
Legal Secretary
Novelist
Philanthropist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Silver Spring
Maryland
Eleanor Marie Robertson
Jill March
Eleanor Marie Robertson Aufdem-Brinke Wilder
J. D. Robb
Sarah Hardesty
Eleanor Wilder
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Silhouette
Silhouettes
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I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.
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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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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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Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.
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He shook his head and eyed Roarke. You don't look like a cop. I'm not and thank you for noticing.
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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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People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.
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It was best not to think, not to analyze. It was best to accept and act.
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She doesn’t like you, McNab. “I knoooow. I find that really attractive in a woman.
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
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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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Up to this point your life has pretty much sucked. You’re not responsible for that. But you are responsible for what happens from here on.
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Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.
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You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.
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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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No second chance? A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
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You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
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