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TUDOR CHIRILă Încearcă nu să fii un om de succes, ci un om de valoare."
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ANNE FRANK Barurile astea sunt ca femeile: nu ştii nici de ce vin, nici de ce te lasă.
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OCTAVIAN PALER -Sunt enormă.
-Într-un fel superb. Pun pariu că abia aştepţi. Hai să ne aşezăm puţin....
NORA ROBERTS Mi-a venit foarte greu sa ma afirm alaturi de gandurile mele. Era un demon in mine, iar in cele din ...
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He closed the distance between them.
“Yo...
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NORA ROBERTS And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleepin...
NORA ROBERTS Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.
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NORA ROBERTS Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
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NORA ROBERTS The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
NORA ROBERTS I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
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NORA ROBERTS Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
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NORA ROBERTS Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
NORA ROBERTS Good fiction creates its own reality.
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NORA ROBERTS Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
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NORA ROBERTS It feels like Scotland." "Have you ever been?" "Mmmm. Twice. Have you?" "No." "You should. It's your...
NORA ROBERTS Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.
NORA ROBERTS Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.
NORA ROBERTS You can fix anything but a blank page.
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NORA ROBERTS Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a lit...
NORA ROBERTS Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
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NORA ROBERTS Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorr...
NORA ROBERTS The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth a...
NORA ROBERTS To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.
NORA ROBERTS The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.
NORA ROBERTS Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or...
NORA ROBERTS If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you...
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NORA ROBERTS Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit d...
NORA ROBERTS When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses,...
NORA ROBERTS There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school...
NORA ROBERTS ...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into...
NORA ROBERTS The wounded recognized the wounded.
NORA ROBERTS I wanted to use an urban setting with a small-town feel for a story that took a character through he...
NORA ROBERTS There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumpin...
NORA ROBERTS Survivors lived with their mistakes.
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NORA ROBERTS Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out...
NORA ROBERTS You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the bea...
NORA ROBERTS Amor, pensó, entregado de forma libre, aceptado de forma voluntaria. No había magia más potente.
NORA ROBERTS El amor lo complica todo y también se abre paso a través de todo. (Connor)
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NORA ROBERTS It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, wit...
NORA ROBERTS He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.
NORA ROBERTS When you wait all your life for something and then you find it, it's like a miracle. All the parts i...
NORA ROBERTS I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.
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NORA ROBERTS Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who...
NORA ROBERTS You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, ...
NORA ROBERTS And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
NORA ROBERTS If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.
NORA ROBERTS He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu...
NORA ROBERTS He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu...
NORA ROBERTS In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
NORA ROBERTS Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
NORA ROBERTS When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.
NORA ROBERTS Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
NORA ROBERTS Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick i...
NORA ROBERTS Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertain...
NORA ROBERTS And I'm not sensitive at all, Philip. Just
mean."
He smiled down at her. "Have you ever co...
NORA ROBERTS People in hell want snowcones.
NORA ROBERTS You have to believe in it to get it...
NORA ROBERTS -Au fost două persoane excepţionale.
-Şi tu eşti la fel. Nu îmi pierd timpul cu prieteni ...
NORA ROBERTS -E vorba despre călătoria pe care o parcurge şi despre acceptarea ei. E viaţa şi lumina din tin...
NORA ROBERTS -Sunt enormă.
-Într-un fel superb. Pun pariu că abia aştepţi. Hai să ne aşezăm puţin....
NORA ROBERTS -Ăsta e numărul meu privat, nu cel de serviciu. Îmi dai un telefon?
-Sigur. Probabil că pe...
NORA ROBERTS With his mind full of the engaging Rosalind, he stared at Mac. “Hi, sorry to interrupt.” He lurc...
NORA ROBERTS Where he listened some more until I’d pretty well run it down. Then he walked me back and—” �...
NORA ROBERTS Mac has a sexy breakfast story.” “Really?” Eyebrows lifted, Parker set the syrup and butter on...
NORA ROBERTS Love’s not some amorphous concept created for books and poetry and not attainable. It’s real and...
NORA ROBERTS Poate că fericirea până la adânci bătrâneţi era o prostie, dar acum ştia că voia să facă ...
NORA ROBERTS Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.
NORA ROBERTS Quiero lo que somos cuando estamos juntos. Amo lo que creo que podríamos llegar a ser.
NORA ROBERTS Moments came and went, she thought. It was love that bound them together into a life.
NORA ROBERTS If you lived with her, you must have been in love with her.'
'No. I wanted to be in love with h...
NORA ROBERTS What matters is you're the blue butterfly."
"I'm… what?"
"Come on, Professor, Dr. Maguir...
NORA ROBERTS You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose.
NORA ROBERTS Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refu...
NORA ROBERTS Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth...
NORA ROBERTS Are you always so forthright over coffee dates?”
“I don’t know. You’re the only one I ...
NORA ROBERTS Ah, hi. It’s Carter. I wonder if you might want to go out to dinner, or maybe the movies. Maybe yo...
NORA ROBERTS Niall: We're tossed by the winds of fate. Once we end where they blow us, we make of ourselves that ...
NORA ROBERTS Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.
NORA ROBERTS As a rule of thumb, I'd say one cliché per [Romance]--and then be damn sure you can make it work. B...
NORA ROBERTS it taught me, that when a woman lets herself love, she loses. it taught me that to survive, you rely...
NORA ROBERTS He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, yo...
NORA ROBERTS Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good frie...
NORA EPHRON Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
NORA EPHRON I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is cont...
NORA EPHRON Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admi...
NORA EPHRON It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever afte...
NORA EPHRON I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...
NORA EPHRON Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...
NORA EPHRON My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if yo...
NORA EPHRON What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -Nora Eph...
NORA EPHRON When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thi...
NORA EPHRON I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star re...
NORA EPHRON I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onio...
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series...
NORA EPHRON It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...
NORA EPHRON Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a mi...
NORA SAKAVIC I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and...
NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.
NORA DUNN When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I ...
NORA EPHRON The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic an...
NORA EPHRON I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or...
NORA EPHRON In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if som...
NORA EPHRON Some day, some day of days, threading the street
With idle, heedless pace,
Unlooking for such ...
NORA PERRY So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing,
So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;
So blit...
NORA PERRY If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot ...
NORA EPHRON Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the w...
NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
NORA EPHRON If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters
NORA EPHRON I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how m...
NORA EPHRON When we initially did the game, it still had lava pits, the editor looked like an ogre - stuff like ...
NORA PAUL I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a goo...
NORA EPHRON Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live ...
NORA EPHRON When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, 'W...
NORA ARNEZEDER It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever aft...
NORA EPHRON My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be c...
NORA EPHRON The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...
NORA EPHRON When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and mad...
NORA EPHRON It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared...
NORA EPHRON When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy...
NORA EPHRON I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all ti...
NORA EPHRON Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is r...
NORA EPHRON Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subcons...
NORA EPHRON I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm no...
NORA EPHRON I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
NORA EPHRON …the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not ha...
NORA EPHRON I didn't sign it," Neil said, looking up from his hands. He lifted his fingers to his face. He could...
NORA SAKAVIC Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl...
NORA EPHRON I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position agai...
NORA EPHRON More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges.
NORA JOHNSON Ninety percent of the time the very sight of you makes me want to commit murder. I think about carvi...
NORA SAKAVIC Is your learning curve a horizontal line?
NORA SAKAVIC This is my reassured face," Neil said, pointing up at his blank expression.
NORA SAKAVIC I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't m...
NORA EPHRON Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
NORA EPHRON Dale the Thug.
NORA EPHRON 'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and...
NORA EPHRON As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
NORA EPHRON To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of th...
NORA EPHRON Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorles...
NORA EPHRON I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
NORA EPHRON With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest in...
NORA EPHRON You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets
NORA EPHRON New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The o...
NORA EPHRON There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same l...
NORA EPHRON The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat
NORA EPHRON It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and prim...
NORA EPHRON We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry ...
NORA EPHRON Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but t...
NORA EPHRON One thing that happens because adults are uncomfortable is we use a lot of euphemisms. Those can jus...
NORA GELPERIN It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever af...
NORA EPHRON [A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own p...
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SOPHIA NORA In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
NORA EPHRON Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that ev...
NORA EPHRON What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would d...
NORA EPHRON I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thou...
NORA EPHRON When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banan...
NORA EPHRON My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My...
NORA EPHRON If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when ...
NORA EPHRON You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the ...
NORA EPHRON Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou...
NORA EPHRON I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ...
NORA EPHRON Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
NORA EPHRON Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day o...
NORA EPHRON I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Peri...
NORA EPHRON Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths a...
NORA SAKAVIC This was everything he wanted, everything he needed, and Neil was never letting go.
NORA SAKAVIC Fight because you don't know how to die quietly. Win because you don't know how to lose. This king's...
NORA SAKAVIC Now that number was gone, covered up by the jet-black image of a chess piece. Neil's knowledge of ch...
NORA SAKAVIC