Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
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.
Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
You can fix anything but a blank page.
I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me.
When we grow up, we lose the talent for loving without restrictions.
It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.
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.
Good fiction creates its own reality.
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
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.
That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.
Know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.
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.
Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
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.
You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.
You can't edit a blank page
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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)
A woman with romance in her life lived as grandly as a queen, because her heart was treasured.
Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
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.
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.
A ghra. A amhain. My love. My only.
We all look. The lucky find.
People and relationships never stop being a work in progress
Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
The wounded recognized the wounded.
A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.
I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
My boyfriend and I are badasses.
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.
Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.
Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
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.
When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.
A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?" "Kiss a cow farm boy
Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.
...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.
Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.
Squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place
What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.
He trailed off as he saw the books. Piles and stacks of them beside the sofa, another stack on the coffee table, a sea of them on her dining table. Jesus Christ, Dane, you need treatment.
Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.
-If you were a girl,Jack said to Dell, I'd marry you. -No. You'd just have sex with me then never call me.
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.
Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.
We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.
Nothing worthwhile is ever without complications.
So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again? What makes you think i ever stopped?
Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel things, and want things I never knew I could have. -Cassie
I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.
![[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/nora-roberts-40011.jpg)
[Everyone needs] a woman who'll listen, take your side, tell the truth - or not, as you need it. A woman you can count on, no matter what, and who'll love you no matter how much you screw up.
In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need
The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.
Those big blue eyes were swimming, and he was afraid that if the first tear fell, he would break and carry her off anywhere she wanted to go.
Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.
Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and the light are the keenest weapons.
Love birds don't always sing pretty tunes.
You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.
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.
Did he mean me or Jenny Mullendore was a slut?" Joanne wondered. "Because honestly, I don't see how she has the time for slut activities with those two preschoolers of hers. Me, I've got lots of time.
Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.
Oh, go to hell." But there wasn't any heat in the response. "You're not supposed to smile when you say that.
