Nora Roberts Quotes

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days. Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

I really don't like that modern notion of 'I don't need anyone.' I see a lot of young women feeling they have to be that way, they have to be hard, in a way. And what does that bring them? They're just going to be lonesome. They're going to be, at best, lonesome and capable, at worst, lonesome and hard. And is that what we want? No.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I didn't play with other children.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.