“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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“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.”
― Plato, quote from Timaeus/Critias
“But time does heal. Not like we think it does, not like we would—from the front—but more from the back or side or someplace we can’t see it coming. It bubbles up beneath and rises all around.”
― Charles Martin, quote from Where the River Ends
“From the floor, I see the tops of the Philadelphia skyline out of her window. Staring at it, I realize that the night sky isn't really black, which is the way I've always thought of it. It's actually a dark shade of blue, the darkest possible.”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from Same Difference
“There would be no sequel to the sadness”
― Salvador Plascencia, quote from The People of Paper
“Zen does not ask you to believe in anything you cannot confirm for yourself. It does not ask you to memorize any sacred words. It does not require you to worship any particular thing or revere any particular person. It does not offer any rules to obey. It does not give you any hierarchy of learned men whose profound teachings you must follow to the letter. It does not ask you to conform any code of dress. It does not ask you to allow anyone else to choose what is right for you and what is wrong. Zen is complete absence of belief. Zen is the complete lack of authority. Zen tears away every false refuge in which you might hide from the truth and forces you to sit naked before what is real. That's real refuge.”
― Brad Warner, quote from Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality
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