Nora Roberts Quotes

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

I've had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don't think I will get married again.

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

Damn it! When you get married you kind of expect you're going to get a little sex.

I don’t see why we can’t get along just as well with a polygamist who doesn’t polyg as we do with a lot of monogamists who don’t monog!

It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.

Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.

It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.

I think a lot of us are a lot more cautious with marriage because of what we saw happening with our parents. I see a lot more healthy marriages in my generation than they probably saw in theirs.

I believe couples should have separate bedrooms.

It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea.

My wife said, 'Take me in your arms and whisper something soft and sweet.' I said, 'chocolate fudge.'

As women, we always crave for family and a loving partner and in our quest to find that happy space we overlook a lot of things.

I just thought you only need to like a person to marry him, which's quite naive.

Marriage is not a magical potion that serves to amplify adoration, reduce deep-seated feelings of resentment, erase fears of commitment, or answer questions about whether or not this is the right move. Marriage is a ceremony that cements your current bond to another human being, and while that's a huge thing, that's all it does.

People get married for a wide array of reasons and have all sorts of expectations of how marriage will change the relationship. And while it's true that turning the person you're dating into a legal partner does affect certain things, those who expect marriage to be a cure-all for all your relationship woes are sorely mistaken.

Last night I asked my husband, 'What's your favorite sexual position?' and he said, 'Next door.'

I have no sex appeal, which kills me. The only way I can ever hear heavy breathing from my husband's side of the bed is when he's having an asthma attack.

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

I love you, Meg. I want to marry you. I want to sleep with you every night, make love with you, have kids. I want to fight together and work together and—just be together. Now are you going to keep standing there, staring at me, or could you put me out of my misery and say you still love me, at least a little?