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It's a compulsion, it's a need that goes beyond the ability to consciously control it, and in that respect it's very similar to drug addiction.


Nora Volkow

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NORA SAKAVIC Make them love you, make them hate you, I don't care. Just make them look at you.
NORA SAKAVIC It's not the world that's cruel," Neil said. "It's the people in it.
NORA SAKAVIC Keys meant Neil had explicit permission to be here and do what he liked. They meant he belonged.
NORA SAKAVIC Remember this feeling. This is the moment you stop being the rabbit.
NORA SAKAVIC Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, be...
NORA EPHRON I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potato...
NORA EPHRON Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick i...
NORA ROBERTS He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting.
NORA SAKAVIC 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 I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing arou...
NORA EPHRON 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