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“Good fiction creates its own reality.”
― Nora Roberts, The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex

“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, Key of Knowledge

“You can fix anything but a blank page.”
― Nora Roberts

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire, 5-Book Boxed Set: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance with Dragons

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

“When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber”
― Ikechukwu Izuakor

“The wounded recognized the wounded.”
― Nora Roberts, Rising Tides

“You Shape Your Own Reality Every Day”
― Shannon McKenna, Standing in the Shadows

“You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness”
― Assunta Harris, A Sheep Amongst Wolves

“It is easy to be brave when you have a child depending on you.”
― Nora Roberts, Rising Tides

“He'd learned quickly enough that when you cooked for a family, everybody was a critic.”
― Nora Roberts, Rising Tides

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“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, Jewels of the Sun

“Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.”
― Nora Roberts, 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, Jewels of the Sun

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“Lovers do things together! They rent videos, they ride Ferris wheels, they go out for pizza, they play Scrabble. They . . . they talk!'

'Talk?' He lifted his head and frowned, his eyes puzzled. 'We talk all the time, Raine. I've never had such talkative sex.'

'That's just it!' She wiggled, flailed, but couldn't budge him. 'Two minutes alone with you, and I'm flat on my back. Every single time!'

A slow, knowing grin spread over his face. 'Is this your way of telling me you want to be on top?”
― Shannon McKenna, Behind Closed Doors

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris