"He wanted to heave the glasses against the……" — Nora Roberts
"He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough."
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449 Quotes by Nora Roberts
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Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].
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If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
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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…
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Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you…
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I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy.…
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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
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Ive gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time Ive spent with them.
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I loved the process of writing.
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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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Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
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You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse…
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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