“No point in wishing for what you can't have. - Blair
What's the point in wishing for what you can and do? - Larken”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Dance of the Gods
“coffeepot, Glenna gave Blair’s arm an absent stroke. “Give you a”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Dance of the Gods
“have read my mind.” As she moved to the coffeepot, Glenna gave Blair’s arm an absent stroke. “Give you a hand?” “No, I got this. You’ve been taking the lion’s”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Dance of the Gods
“Maybe it was the post-battle itches, but Blair couldn’t settle. After another session with Glenna, everyone’s injuries were well on the mend, so they could train. They should train, she told herself. Maybe the sweat and”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Dance of the Gods
“quietly. “To the cliffs and caves, while we have the sun.” “There you go. They can’t come out. Nothing”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Dance of the Gods
“Man needs the comfort of the simple as much as he needs the glory”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Dance of the Gods
Nora Roberts
Born place: in Silver Spring, Maryland, The United States
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“The only evil is that I don't mind that it happened.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, quote from The Face on the Milk Carton
“Robin told only a little of her life, but she kept repeating in one way or another her wish for a home, as if she were afraid she would be lost again, as if she were aware, without conscious knowledge, that she belonged to Nora, and that if Nora did not make it permanent by her own strength, she would forget.”
― Djuna Barnes, quote from Nightwood
“You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation."
One side of his lip cricked up. "I found you. I'll take my chances.”
― Julie Anne Peters, quote from Luna
“I wanted a settled life and a shocking one. Think of Van Gogh, cypress trees and church spires under a sky of writhing snakes. I was my father's daughter. I wanted to be loved by someone like my tough judicious mother and I wanted to run screaming through the headlights with a bottle in my hand. That was the family curse. We tended to nurse flocks of undisciplined wishes that collided and canceled each other out. The curse implied that if we didn't learn to train our desires in one direction or another we were likely to end up with nothing. Look at my father and mother today.
I married in my early twenties. When that went to pieces I loved a woman. At both of those times and at other times, too, I believed I had focused my impulses and embarked on a long victory over my own confusion. Now, in my late thirties, I knew less than ever about what I wanted. In place of youth's belief in change I had begun to feel a nervous embarrassment that ticked inside me like a clock. I'd never meant to get this far in such an unfastened condition. (p.142)”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from A Home at the End of the World
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
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