“Magic is. But its power is nothing beside love.
--Prince Carrick”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“Aidan to Jude: What's wrong with running away if where you were didn't suit you? Doesn't it follow you're funning to something else? Something that does suit you?”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“He was a wild one as a lad, and there's a look about him that says he could be again." Kathy sighed. "I've always had a soft spot for a wild heart in a man. Have you no sweetheart in the States then, Jude?"
"No." She thought briefly of William. Had she ever considered her husband her sweetheart? "No one special."
"If they're not special, what would the point be?”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of the basic pleasures in life?”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“They never see what you are." Shocked, Jude glanced around to see who'd spoken, then realized she had.
"Don't they?" Brenna wanted to know, lifting her brow as she topped off Jude's glass yet again.
"They see a reflection of their own perception. Whore or angel, mother or child. Depending on their view, they're compelled to protect or conquer or exploit. Or you're a convenience," she murmured.
"Easily discarded.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“If you don't tell her just that, if you don't give her your heart, Aidan, if you don't bare it for her and give her the time to trust what she sees there, you'll never have her.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“I can't believe what a state I got myself into over this. Everyone was right. They said it would just happen, and it did. I guess the best things do.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“Love, even when pledged, isn't enough.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“O amor, qualquer que seja o tempo, quaisquer que sejam os obstáculos, dura sempre.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“The woman’s managed what hasn’t been done in thirty-one years. She’s broke my god dawn nose”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“She started to speak, to ask politely for a glass of white wine. Then he smiled, a slow, lazy curving of lips that inexplicably set her insides a fluttering and turned her mind into a buzzing mess of static.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
“Come away! O, human child! To the woods and waters wild, With a fairy hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. —W. B. YEATS”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Jewels of the Sun
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“I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.”
― Warren Ellis, quote from Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
“Adam leaned down and placed his lips next to her ear. He blew gently on it before he spoke. Mona leaned even closer into him as she listened intently to his words.
"Desdemona."
She moaned at the sound of her name on his lips.
"I need to tell you something." His words were accompanied by warm air caressing her skin.
"Before my time is done, I will watch the light fade from your eyes as you are sent to the hell you so deserve." Though his words promised destruction, the cadence of his voice still held her in a seductive rapture.”
― Quinn Loftis, quote from Beyond the Veil
“It was only when I got home that I reached into my pocket. I found a piece of paper he must have slipped in there while he held me: a little caricature of the two of us, him a huge bear in his uniform, grinning, his arm around me, petite and narrow-waisted, my face straight and solemn, my hair pulled neatly behind my head. Underneath it he had written, in his looping,‘I never knew real happiness until you.”
― Jojo Moyes, quote from The Girl You Left Behind
“It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.”
― Aldo Leopold, quote from A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“When the three of them stepped inside, they were greeted by the Muzak version of "Teenagers" by My Chemical Romance. Vlad and Henry exchanged looks of horror, and Vlad sighed. "Is nothing sacred?”
― Heather Brewer, quote from Tenth Grade Bleeds
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