“She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed with books tables crowded with them. She saw them not only as knowledge entertainment comfort even sanity but as a kind of artful decoration. ”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I
ever been, an axe murderer."
"I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Writing had never become routine for him, but remained a constant surprise. He was always surprised at how much fun it was, once it all got moving. And never failed to be surprised at how bloody hard it was. It was like having an intense, frustrating love affair with a capricious, gorgeous, and often mean-spirited woman.
He loved every moment of it.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Um homem nunca está mais sozinho do que quando está rodeado pelo passado.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Momentos depois a porta abriu-se de novo. A expressão de Zoe passou de espanto, para surpresa, para uma leve irritação, em três fases distintas.
-Oh, és tu. Ah... posso fazer alguma coisa por ti?
'Podias deixar-me mordiscar-te o pescoço até à orelha, para começar' pensou Brad, mas manteve o sorriso descontraído no rosto.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“- O Kane está preocupado com ela - disse Rowena - mas o homem está preocupado por ela.
- Há fogo entre eles - Pitte virou a cabeça e roçou os lábios no cabelo de Rowena - Ele devia levá-la para a cama e deixar esse fogo selar velhas feridas.
- Tão típico de um macho, pensar que a cama é sempre a resposta. (...) O fogo nao basta - Ela abriu os braços e dezenas de velas acenderam-se - É o calor, meu amor, meu único amor, que cura um coração ferido.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Imaginei que ele ia perceber o erro horrível que cometera, que rastejaria para mim, a suplicar que o aceitasse de volta. É do tipo de coisa que parece que nos daria satisfação, quando pensamos nisso, sabem? Mas deixem-me que vos diga, quando acontece mesmo... ou quando parece acontecer... é simplesmente horrível.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Não, vazia não', pensou. Era um erro pensar nas casas, casas antigas, como estando vazias. Estavam cheias de memórias, de ecos desvanecidos de vozes. Gotas de lágrimas, gotas de sangue, o som de risos, o vigor dos temperamentos que tinham crescido e desaparecido entre as paredes, dentro das paredes, ao longo dos anos. Não seria isso, afinal, uma espécie de vida?”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“Ele sabia que preferia morrer a lutar com ela, do que viver me paz com qualquer outra pessoa.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“- Deixas-te governar pela paixão, e isso torna-te fraca.
- O que nos governa a todos, se não a paixão? - contrapôs ela - Ambição, cobiça, ódio, vaidade. São paixões, todas essas emoções.
- Ah, é por isso que gosto de ti. Podíamos ter conversas tão interessantes. Não, as paixões não são exclusivas do mundo dos mortais. Mas abrir as portas à dor, apenas por amor e pelos prazeres da carne... - abanou a cabeça - Eras mais sensata quando o odiavas. Agora deixas que ele te use de novo.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
“New York had saved him, in a very real way. It had pushed and prodded him with its impatient and sharp fingers, reminding him on a daily basis during that jittery first year that it didn't really give a goddamn whether he sank or swam.
He liked its selfishness and its generosity and its propensity for flipping the bird to the rest of the world.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Key of Knowledge
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“Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high.”
― James Purdy, quote from Narrow Rooms
“When the corporation’s investment capital becomes impatient for growth, good money becomes bad money because it triggers a subsequent cascade of inevitable incorrect decisions. Innovators who seek funding for the disruptive innovations that could ultimately fuel the company’s growth with a high probability of success now find that their trial balloons get shot down because they can’t get big enough fast enough. Managers of most disruptive businesses can’t credibly project that the business will become very big very fast, because new-market disruptions need to compete against nonconsumption and must follow an emergent strategy process. Compelling them to project big numbers forces them to declare a strategy that confidently crams the innovation into a large, existing, and obvious market whose size can be statistically substantiated. This means competing against consumption.”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
“Everything was temporary; she understood that now. All of this was temporary. It would all be snatched away. It was all on loan. Even the people we love. They were all on loan. One day you see their face across a rickety table or you pass them hurrying from here to there, or you see them leave you in your bed, and their profile passes you by...and you don't know...your thoughts somewhere else. And then they are snatched away forever and you did not know to say goodbye. You did not know.”
― Karen Kondazian, quote from The Whip
“Sleep and cry and rest no more For you have lived many storms before Run or crawl and find the sea Dive in the pleasure Let it set you free.”
― Irum Zahra, quote from Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black
“Жизнь одинокого человека связана с ритуалом изгнания вакуума из вечеров, проведенных в одиночестве.”
― Douglas Coupland, quote from Eleanor Rigby
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