“if you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer’s always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Irish trilogy collection
“But he wasn’t one to make a habit of”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Irish trilogy collection
“He heard a woman call out for her children in the flat accent that said States to him, East Coast, North. And seemed so out of place here. Did his voice have that same slightly-out-of-tune sound to it? Here voices should lilt and flow and have old music under each word.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Irish trilogy collection
“When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn’t tend to it. Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Irish trilogy collection
“When you get older, you come to trust in time. Not that I’m meaning you sit idle and let it pass.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Irish trilogy collection
“she’d let him know just what that was”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Irish trilogy collection
Nora Roberts
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“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from Dante's Divine Comedy Set: Three-Volume Set
“Locking everyone up is not the solution,' she sighs, staring into a cup of coffee gone cold as The Box at Juvenile Hall. 'It's just the symptom of the problem. It's the proof that we're doing something wrong.”
― Edward Humes, quote from No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
“We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Need You? (Did I Mention I Love You
“Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.”
― Bruno Schulz, quote from The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories
“My eyes fell on the gray linoleum floor and I wondered how many other women had sat on this toilet and stared at this floor. Each of them the center of their own world, all of them yearning for someone to put their love into so they could see their love, see that they had it.”
― Miranda July, quote from The First Bad Man
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