“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“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.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that we will.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“I’ve been happy alone and I’ve been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“A marriage is a delicate thing, Maggie, a balance of two hearts and two hopes. Sometimes the weight's just too heavy on the one side, and the other can't lift to it.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“When you love with all you are, it isn't unhappiness alone you risk. It's heaven, too.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“…the rain was a fine thing. She often preferred it to the warm slant of sun and the clear brilliance of cloudless blue skies. The rain was a soft gray curtain, tucking her away from the world.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“We're as different as that water and hot glass, Rogan."
"And as able to make something strong between us.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“Did people never fall in love with anyone who was eager to return in?”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“The need to take her was raging, some fatal drug that stabbed into his veins, speeding up his heartbeat and clouding his mind.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“Grief swarmed into her heart like angry bees.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“upon that bottle you made me”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
“inside her. So different from an”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Born in Fire
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“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to saving our lives.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, quote from Treasure Island
“I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from A Farewell to Arms
“In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.”
― John Irving, quote from The World According to Garp
“He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.”
― Michael Ende, quote from The Neverending Story
“Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from David Copperfield
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