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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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Nora Roberts |
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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.
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inspirational
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Nora Roberts |
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Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
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Nora Roberts |
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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. (Carter Maguire)
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marriage
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Nora Roberts |
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It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.
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Nora Roberts |
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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
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romance
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Nora Roberts |
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I've never been the one. Not for anybody." He closed the distance between them. "You'll get used to it." He tipped her face up to his, kissed her. "Why? Why am I the one?" "Because my life opened up, and it flooded with color when you walked back into it."
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marriage
romance
love
sweet
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Nora Roberts |
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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.
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Nora Roberts |
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I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.
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Nora Roberts |
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The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
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romance
music
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Nora Roberts |
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Good fiction creates its own reality.
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Nora Roberts |
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Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.
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Nora Roberts |
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That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
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life
wisdom
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Nora Roberts |
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know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
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inspirational
proactivity
goals
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Nora Roberts |
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Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
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passion
stoicism
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Nora Roberts |
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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 with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration.
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Nora Roberts |
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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. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.
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Nora Roberts |
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We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
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Nora Roberts |
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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.
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Nora Roberts |
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Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
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dogs
learning
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Nora Roberts |
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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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romance
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Nora Roberts |
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If you're looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one's ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do. (Malcolm Kavanaugh)
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love
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Nora Roberts |
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The wounded recognized the wounded.
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wounded
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Nora Roberts |
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Earrings are like orgasms. You can never have too many." " I never thought about it quite that way." Well, you're a man. " She gave his knee a friendly pat."
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Nora Roberts |
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People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
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Nora Roberts |
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A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
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Nora Roberts |
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Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure.
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humor
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Nora Roberts |
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We all look. The lucky find.
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Nora Roberts |
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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.
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Nora Roberts |
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Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
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men
respect
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Nora Roberts |
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She] knew there were women who worked successfully out of the home. They ran businesses, created empires and managed to raise happy, healthy, well-adjusted children who went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard or became world-renowned concert pianists. Possibly both. These women accomplished all this while cooking gourmet meals, furnishing their homes with Italian antiques, giving clever, intelligent interviews with Money magazine ..
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Nora Roberts |
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I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
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money
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Nora Roberts |
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The polite thing would be to go back inside, give you privacy when you read it. But, I'm just not that mature.' 'It's nothing. Fine.' Feeling foolish, Laurel opened the envelope.
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laurel
shoenapping
savor-the-moment
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Nora Roberts |
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Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
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Nora Roberts |
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it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely on yourself first and last." -adrianne "It should have also taught you that sometimes love has no threshold." -philip"
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romance
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Nora Roberts |
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Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
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Nora Roberts |
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He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that always made Laurel's heart mush. Serious grip, cheek to the hair, eyes closed, just a little sway. Del's hugs mattered, she thought, and made him impossible to resist.
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relationships
love
hugs
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Nora Roberts |
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What do you know about life? " Bitterness ached in her throat. " You were born with everything. You never had to struggle for a single thing you wanted, never had to worry if you'd be accepted or loved or wanted back." He stared at her, grateful for the moment that she couldn't see that he'd spent nearly half of his life worrying that she, the single thing he wanted, would accept him, love him, and want him back."
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Nora Roberts |
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My boyfriend and I are badasses.
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Nora Roberts |
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He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.
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romance
poetry
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Nora Roberts |
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Knowledge is a great gift, and the thirst to seek it even greater. Use what you know...Head and heart...You are not made to give greater weight to one than the other.
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Nora Roberts |
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There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.
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vacation
summer
school
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Nora Roberts |
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I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford." Me and Shrek, we're onions."
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Nora Roberts |
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Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular 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.
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love
laurel-mcbane
savor-the-moment
wedding
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Nora Roberts |