Quotes from Born in Fire

“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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