Rosalind Harper Quotes

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Nora Roberts
“I’m not looking for a man right now. Too damn much trouble. Even when it’s good, they take a lot of time, effort, and energy. I’m enjoying using all that time, effort, and energy on myself.”
Nora Roberts, Blue Dahlia

Nora Roberts
“She kept to herself because solitude soothed her.”
Nora Roberts, Black Rose

Nora Roberts
“Love’s a gift, Hayley, to be taken and received freely.”
Nora Roberts, Red Lily

Nora Roberts
“She could live her life alone if need be, but what did it prove? That she was self-sufficient, independent, strong, and able. She knew those things, had been those things—and would always be those things.

And she could be courageous, too.

Didn’t it take courage, wasn’t it harder to blend one life with another, to share and to cope, to compromise than to live that life alone? It was work to live with a man, to wake up every day prepared to deal with routine, and to be open to surprises.

She’d never shied away from work.

Marriage was a different kettle at this stage of life. There would be no babies made between them. But they could share grandchildren one day. They wouldn’t grow up together, but could grow old together.

They could be happy.”
Nora Roberts, Black Rose

Nora Roberts
“I don’t know if I’ve got it in me for another important relationship. They’re so much damn work. Love can be, should be, so consuming, so demanding. I just don’t know that I’ve got the stamina, or the heart, or the generosity.”
Nora Roberts, Black Rose