“All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.”
Nora Roberts“My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?”
Nora Roberts“It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple?Hadn't she mattered at all?”
Nora Roberts“Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.”
Nora Roberts, Born in Fire“Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.”
Nora Roberts, Born in Shame“I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.”
Nora Roberts“Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.”
Nora Roberts“And yet, anything real, anything strong, was never easy. She'd been taught from an early age that the things that mattered most were the hardest to obtain.”
Nora Roberts