“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“If you’re looking for the full deal, the till-death deal, then look at me. No one’s ever going to love you, stick by you, understand how you work the way I do.
(Malcolm Kavanaugh)”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“...She'd gone past interest, swung into attraction, burst through lust, tripped over affection, and was now skidding out of control into love.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“We’re going to get a couple pretty, fluffy inches in the morning for a gorgeous December evening wedding. Go get ready for rehearsal.”
“I’m afraid of rehearsal. My voice is going to squeak. I think I’m getting a zit right in the middle of my chin. I’m going to trip coming down the aisle. It’s okay if Carter trips. People expect it. But –”
…
“Carter isn’t nervous. “Mac narrowed her eyes in a scowl. “I could hate him for that.”
“Mackensie.” Parker turned from the computer. “I was in the kitchen this morning when Mrs. G made him sit down and eat some breakfast. He put maple syrup in his coffee.”
“He did?” She threw up her arms in a cheer. “He is nervous. I feel better.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“And don’t worry.” Bob, Carter’s best man and colleague, held up a notebook computer. “I’ve got it handled on this end. And I memorized the vows just in case he needs me to throw him a line.”
“You’re a treasure, Bob.”
She waited until she was out of earshot to laugh.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“You're excuses are so lame they're limping...”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Sometimes we hate her,” Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. “But it’s a hare based on love.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Dacă relaţia lor ar fi rămas una superficială, acea reticenţă nu ar fi contat. Dar nu rămăsese, credea Parker, aşa că era importantă. Conta, fiindcă trecuse de faza de interes, se abandonase atracţiei, explodase în dorinţă, se împiedicase în afecţiune, iar acum derapa necontrolat spre iubire.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“It's a pretty big deal, not being dead, and I wanted to stay that way.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“- Spune-mi ce-ţi doreşti.
El o prinse de încheieturi, apoi îşi trecu degetele printre ale ei.
- Vreau o viaţă alături de tine, şi-o să împrumut cuvintele lui Jack şi Del acum - într-un fel. Vreau să încep acea viaţă, fiindcă tu eşti Parker. Tu eşti acea viaţă, eşti totul. Vreau ca povestea noastră să devină adevărată. Vreau - şi de data asta cuvintele îmi aparţin în întregime -, vreau să-ţi fac promisiuni şi vreau să le indeplinesc. Te iubesc şi vreau să-ţi promit că o să te iubesc tot restul vieţii mele.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“your excuses are so lame they’re limping,”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“I figure if you’ve got to take someone down or set them straight, you might as well enjoy it on some level.
Malcom”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“I think this one’s in the running for Ditzy Bride status. Not only does she want her MOH to walk her two Siamese cats down the aisle rather than carry a bouquet, but wants to include them on the guest list.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Durerea o lovea în valuri, tari şi învolburate, biciuind-o şi sfâşiindu-i inima. În alte zile, valurile erau lente şi persistente, ameninţând să-i înece sufletul.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“- Ai un minut? întrebă Mac.
- Întâmplător am chiar mai multe. Poţi să-ţi iei şi tu unul.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Se răsuci şi se aflau acum faţă în faţă.
- Poate, pânâ la sfârşit, o să-mi dau seama de ce am în faţa ochilor.
Ea se dădu înapoi.
- Nu e chiar atât de complicat.
- Nu tu eşti cea care priveşte. Eşti gata?”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“- De ce ne batem atâta capul? întrebă Parker. Bărbaţii oricum nu observă.
- Fiindcă ceea ce purtăm afectează felul în care ne simţim, cum ne comportăm, cum ne mişcăm. Iar astea sunt lucruri pe care le observă. În special mişcarea. Îmbracă-te, machiază-ţi ochii. Vei şti că arăţi bine, aşa că te vei simţi bine. Ai să te distrez mai tare.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“- N-aş putea să dorm aici? Jack se ridică şi o ridică şi pe ea. Ea zâmbi adormită, petrecându-şi braţele pe după gâtul lui.
- Ador când faci asta.
- Ţi-ai câştigat dreptul să fii purtată pe sus. Noapte bună tuturor.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“- Când găseşti o femeie pe care o iubeşti cu tot sufletul şi te iubeşte şi ea - chiar şi cu slăbiciunile şi defectele tale, totul începe să se potrivească. Şi dacă poţi să vorbeşti cu ea, iar ea te ascultă, dacă te face să râzi şi te face să te gândeşti, te face să vrei, te face să veyi cine eşti cu adevărat, iar acel cineva e un om mai bun, pur şi simplu mai bun alături de ea, atunci ai fi un nebun să nu-ţi doreşti să-ţi petreci restul vieţii cu ea.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“I am not glowy.” Laurel simply turned Parker by the shoulders to the big foyer mirror. “You were saying?” Maybe color did glow in her cheeks, and maybe her eyes were a little dazzled, but . . . “That’s irritation.” “I won’t say ‘liar, liar,’ but, Parks, under that skirt, your pants are on fire.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“sexy.” “I’m not interested in funny and sexy with Malcolm Kavanaugh.” “Parker, if you weren’t interested, on some level, you’d have flicked him off like lint on a lapel. He . . .” Laurel searched for the right word. “He intrigues you.” “No, he . . . Maybe.” “As your friend, let me say it’s nice to see you intrigued by a man, especially since I like the”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
“Sometimes we hate her,” Laurel said, then smiled at Parker. “But it’s a hate based on love.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Happy Ever After
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“…I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one’s body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God…in these temples of God’s own building.”
― Harold Bell Wright, quote from The Shepherd of the Hills
“and with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to. They were all real and true—solidly”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from Kim
“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. It’s poison every single time.”
― Addison Moore, quote from Ethereal
“Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.”
― Michael Lewis, quote from Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
“You want a magic wand, so you can walk around smacking people with it until everything’s just the way you like it.”
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