Quotes by Nora Roberts

Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?

I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.

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

Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

Half full, half empty, what the hell difference does it make? If there's something in the damn glass, drink it.

Necessity is often the mother of balls

Life has very little even ground.

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.

If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

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.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

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.

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

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.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.