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“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”
― Nora Roberts

“Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.”
― Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

“Everything I know, I learned from dogs.”
― Nora Roberts, The Search

“The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn't you ever have dollies?"
"Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.”
― J.D. Robb, Origin in Death

“I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!”
― Dorothea Mackellar, The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar

“It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are finished.
Mrs. Miracle”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Courage is a wonderful mixture of bravery and wisdom — obstinacy is just plain stubborn determination to have something your way.”
― Ginny Dye, Dark Chaos

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.”
― Nora Roberts, Born in Fire

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