“[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.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“What was that technique you were using on those bastards?"
"An ancient form called kicking ass.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner than later, in my opinion, the right woman can and should be leader of the free world. But you can't understand the male bonding rituals any more than men can understand why the vast majority of women are obsessed with shoes and other footwear.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked."
"I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb."
"Aplomb"
"It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination."
"That also sounded polite."
"I was raised well.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“You are wise as well as short."
"I can also break bricks with my bare hands."
"That's a handy skill if you ever find yourself walled up in the basement of an abandoned house by a psychopath.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me."
"Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking."
"They're wise to fear me.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I want lots and lots of sex."
"You really are the woman of my dreams."
"First round, wet shower sex, after we scrape off a few layers of the Alaskan tundra, then a short and satisfying lunch break. Then a second round of make-the-mattress-sing sex."
"I feel a tear of gratitude and awe forming in the corner of my eyes. Don't think less of me.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room—"
"Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP, go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“Let's go have lotsa drunk sex before it hits."
"'Kay. Drunk sex for everybody!”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“So we ate some smoke, so what?”
“You lost most of your eyebrows.”
Stunned, she pressed her fingers above her eyes. “Shit! Why didn’t you tell me?”
“It’s a look.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to Gull, “Coming out!” She eased her head out into the smoky air, looked over at Gull. She imaged they both looked like a couple of sweaty, parboiled turtles climbing out of their shells.
“Hello, gorgeous.”
She laughed. It hurt her throat, but she laughed. “Hey, handsome.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I have to get used to it—to her, but she's put a light in him so I think I'm going to be a fan."
"You're a stand-up gal, Swede."
"If she screws him up, I'll peel the skin off her ass with a dull razor blade.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“You're the answer before I even asked the question.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I've fallen pretty deep in...care with you.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“She makes me feel...she makes me feel.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“And it's you, Rowan, in the sunlight with preserved beauty at your back. You're the end of the goddamn rainbow. You're the answer before I even asked the question.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I love you. I love everything about you. Your voice, your laugh. Your eyebrows when they grow back. Your face, your body, your hard head and your cautious heart. I want to spend the rest of my life looking at you, listening to you, working with you, just being with you. Rowan of the purple lupines.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“Stuck with a beautiful woman who knows me and wants me around anyway. For the life of me, I can't figure out what I did right.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I did this backwards because first I should've said - I should've said, I love you, Ella. I love you.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I know it. Just as I know if you made it a choice between you and me, I wouldn't stand a chance.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“You took care of our girl.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
“I didn't want to fall for anybody. It's so messy. I'm so happy it was you. I'm so happy to love you, Gulliver.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Chasing Fire
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“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”
― Norman Doidge, quote from The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
“Why do relationships have to be so complicated?”
― Erin Hunter, quote from The Forgotten Warrior
“Tim glances over at me and I avert my gaze and an imagined sense of imposed peace washes calmly over the two of us, answering my question.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, quote from The Informers
“Drivers hit their horns in anticipation of potential fractional delays.”
― Lee Child, quote from The Hard Way
“July 4th, 1776,” mused Keene, reading Hornblower’s date of birth to himself.”
― C.S. Forester, quote from Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
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