Quotes from Public Secrets

Nora Roberts ·  481 pages

Rating: (12.8K votes)


“Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes?
It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Public Secrets


“a single cleaning service to be had on a Friday afternoon. He tackled the kitchen first with the bottle of Top Job he’d borrowed from a neighbor. The house smelled like a pine forest, but it couldn’t be helped. Then Michael lured”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Public Secrets


“As far as she could see, the nuns must be full of impure thoughts or else they wouldn’t be so sure everyone else had them.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Public Secrets


About the author

Nora Roberts
Born place: in Silver Spring, Maryland, The United States
See more on GoodReads

Popular quotes

“Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.”
― Gregory Maguire, quote from What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy


“He sat there thinking of Man's capacity for the wiping out of species--sometimes in hate or fear, at other times for the simple love of gain.”
― Clifford D. Simak, quote from Time Is the Simplest Thing


“The second you make contact, I’ll have you on that bar, held tight, my cock pressed between your legs, my lips on yours until you beg for more. Even fully clothed, I may make you come—and I won’t care who’s watching.”
― Rebecca Zanetti, quote from Sweet Revenge


“We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background”
― April Genevieve Tucholke, quote from Between the Spark and the Burn


“I reminded myself that there were just some things we never had talked about before, like sex, money, and broken bones. Certainly we had never discussed love. Sex was dangerous enough, and our family was proof that love was a disaster waiting to happen.”
― Dorothy Allison, quote from Two or Three Things I Know for Sure


Interesting books

Songmaster
(6.6K)
Songmaster
by Orson Scott Card
Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
(8.7K)
Henry and June: From...
by Anaïs Nin
Catch of the Day
(10.6K)
Catch of the Day
by Kristan Higgins
Pierre: or, the Ambiguities
(0.9K)
Pierre: or, the Ambi...
by Herman Melville
The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker (Modern Library)
(1.2K)
The Poetry and Short...
by Dorothy Parker
Across The Hall
(6K)
Across The Hall
by N.M. Facile

About BookQuoters

BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.

We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.

Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.