Nora Roberts Quotes

Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

She had a pretty face, but her head was up in space.

I'm terrifically absentminded.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.

Definitely scatterbrained. I internalize a lot of thoughts, and sometimes it seems like I'm not listening or totally zoned out, but I'm always on a loop of ideas and song titles. I'm definitely kind of a space cadet, but I'm very laid back.

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk.

But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.

I'm not the greatest boyfriend, but I'm not a creep. It's more like I'm... absent-minded.

I've always been forgetful.

I think I'm too scatty.

I am very scatty, I don't follow things through, I forget things. I am not perfect.

I'm quite forgetful.

I have always been a little bit forgetful.

I'm bad at a ton of things. I'm bad at sitting still. I'm bad at basketball. My worst habit is that while people are talking, I will already be thinking three other things. It's rude. Sometimes if the person is very in tune and they notice, they're like "Where are you right now?"

I was too absorbed to be responsive

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking, I think they have an interesting, wonderful connection, so you knowWhat does dating mean? I don't know. I couldn't say. People love to talk, so let them have fun talking.

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while.

I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.

To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.