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Nora Roberts Quotes

Total quotes: 19
“Somethings in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you’re afraid some day you might lose it.”
— Nora Roberts, Vision in White(Bride Quartet, Book 1)
Tagged: Life, out of control, Tragedy, Acceptance, Learning, Fear, Choices, Decisions
“Second chances are scarier than first chances, because the second time you know how much you’re risking.”
— Nora Roberts, The Collector
Tagged: Second Chances
“You’re thinking too much. Try being in the moment. It’ll amaze you.”
— Nora Roberts, Shadow Spell(The Cousins O'Dwyer Trilogy)
Tagged: Overthinking, live in the moment, H4D-41
“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.”
— Nora Roberts, Dark Witch
Tagged: Happiness, Work, Taking Risks
“Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.”
— Nora Roberts, The Calhouns Collection: Courting Catherine, A Man for Amanda, For the Love of Lilah, Suzanna's Surrender, Megan's Mate (The Calhoun Women)
Tagged: Change, plans, Life, Surprises
“I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it.”
— Nora Roberts, Northern Lights
Tagged: Deserve, Men, mean
“She didn’t know what woke her, and no matter how many times she relived that night, no matter where the nightmare chased her, she never would.”
— Nora Roberts, The Obsession
Tagged: first lines of books, Scary Sentences
“I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.”
— Nora Roberts, The Calhouns
Tagged: Love, Time
“If she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her.”
— Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
Tagged: Macros, Red, laugh, Think, Desire, Love, Life, Dating, Relationships, Marriage, Forever
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
— Nora Roberts, Tears Of The Moon
Tagged: Inspirational, Courage, Motivational
“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
— Nora Roberts, The Search
Tagged: Dogs, Learning, Lessons
“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks

For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”
— Nora Roberts, Bed Of Roses
Tagged: Scars, Love, Healing
“Men didn't respect beauty. They used it.”
— Nora Roberts, Montana Sky
Tagged: beauty, manipulation, Respect
“Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you”
— Nora Roberts, Black Hills
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.”
— Nora Roberts, Bride Quartet
Tagged: Love, Stress
“You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all. Adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.”
— Nora Roberts, Tears Of The Moon
Tagged: Change, Love, Dating
“I don't need a ring or a license, or a spectacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or at all really, that matters. It's the promise. It's the knowing someone wants me to be part of his life. Someone loves me, that I'm the one for him. That's not just enough, it's everything.”
— Nora Roberts, Savor The Moment
Tagged: wedding, Marriage, Love
“Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.”
— Nora Roberts, Blood Brothers
Tagged: Love, Dating, Marriage
“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her.”
— Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After
Tagged: Love, soulmate, Dating
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