Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

—Nora Roberts in Vision in White

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Nora Roberts (born Eleanor Marie Robertson on October 10, 1950) is an American author of over 225 novels, known for romance published under her own name. She also writes police procedurals which have elements of science fiction under the name J. D. Robb, and has published as Jill March and...

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It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

—Nora Roberts in Happy Ever After

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick in the belly or hurt in the heart. It makes everything brighter and sharper, or it blurs all the edges. It makes you feel like a king or a fool. Every way love can hit you, it's hit me when it comes to you.

—Nora Roberts in Black Hills

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The pain-relieving ingredient—there's always got to be a lot of that. Nobody wants anything less than extra-strength. "Give me the maximum allowable human dosage. Figure out what will kill me, and then back it off a little bit.

—Jerry Seinfeld

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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It seems that it is only the recent West that has deemed it unnecessary to "initiate" young men. Otherwise, culture after culture felt that if the young man were not introduced to "the mysteries," he would not know what to do with his pain and would almost always abuse his power. It looks like they were right.

—Richard Rohr

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Life is happening whether you embrace it or not. You need to let go of the past, the pain, whatever holds you back from having a bright life.

—S.L. Scott in Scorned

Sacrifice is romantic until the only payoff is a broken heart and endless pain.

—Deborah Bladon in CHANCE

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