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Life Quotes by Nora Roberts

61 Life quotes by Nora Roberts

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Nora Roberts fills her world with books, stacking shelves at work and home like a quiet sanctuary. She wonders why life offers no buoys to guide us, and she sees love as a partnership that can feel both mysterious and rewarding. At times she says life must be lived as it comes, even when the cards feel tough and the responsibility of talent looms.

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“Love gilds life”

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Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

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“It's life, and it's messy, and it breaks down.”

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“Other lives just fascinated her.”

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“Without rules, chaos.' With chaos, life.”

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Life--you have to live it as it comes.

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Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

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Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

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“It wasn't the paramedics or the surgical team that saved my life. It was Ray and Stella Quinn.”

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“Stuck with a beautiful woman who knows me and wants me around anyway. For the life of me, I can't figure out…

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A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.

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Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.

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“Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.”

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“She stared at him. "You'd be willing to change your life so dramatically?" "Ray and Stella Quinn changed my life.”

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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…

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“You should appreciate those things while you have them, but you never do. Not all the way. Too busy living. Now and…

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“Doing nothing sometimes hurts more than doing something. Life doesn't come with a guarantee, which is just as well, because most guarantees…

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“I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you,…

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“I know what it is to be pushed in a direction you don't want to go, or one you're not ready for.…

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If you love someone, when it's the most real, the most important thing in your life, it's not enough to coast. You…

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“I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But…

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Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves…

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“No,her mother was made for the life. Patient,with a rod of steel beneath the fragile skin. Shelby wouldn't choose it, nor would…

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What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to…

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“What matters is you're the blue butterfly." "I'm… what?" "Come on, Professor, Dr. Maguire. You know all about metaphors and analogies and…

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“Just so we know where we stand, darling." "I'll tell you just where we stand, darling .I don't need your insulting offer.I'm…

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It's not an exaggeration to say that they saved my life. Ray Quinn, then Cam and Ethan and Phil. They turned their…

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She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love…

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“A star dawns in the night. Life through life, blood through blood to shine its light. Through love he was given the…

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“It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes…

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You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

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“The world needs lovers who fit, or how would we go on? To be only one of one for a life? That’s…

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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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A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

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My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

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Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

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Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure…

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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

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“However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death.”

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You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one…

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“Why stop now? Seduce me, Brian.I dare you." "I've always found it hard to turn aside a dare.”

“Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.”

“He's back in Maine now.She did say he badgered her with questions. Of course, she didn't have the answer until she spoke to me…

“Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.”

“Sorry, bad wing." When Theo kissed him, surprise and pleasure flustered him. He couldn't remember the last time this boy, this young man, had…

“Because it's hard not to matter, even to someone you dislike.”

“No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken”

“Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway. Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth…

“I was going to make a confession. Then I remembered I don't make them very well. We still need to see the monkeys." "You…

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

You can't edit a blank page

“There was a boy down at the stables." She laughed suddenly with her back comfortably nestled against Grant's chest. "Oh,Lord,he was a bit like…

“Some people refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most, because you're afraid someday you might lost…

“Oh, i'm going to kick his ass, and when i'm done, i'm going to squeeze his balls blue.”