danielle steel

“Can a recovering alcoholic and a nun be happy together? Stay tuned.”

“Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.”

“Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. "I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her forever.”

“On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.”

“Some things in life are worth waiting for.”

“Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?”

“Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works”

“You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.”

“If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance”

“You don't need to show off your body to catch a boy's eye. You'd best learn that early on, or you'll be bringing home the worst sort of boy.”

“There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.”

“I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself.”

“Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.”

“If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually.”

“I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.--Marya”

“Nothing is irreversible exceptdying.”

“Feelings aren’t sensible.always,” her mother said gently. “Feelings aren’t sensible.Sometimes you fall in love with people who don’t makesense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to bethe wrong ones”

“This was real life, not a book. And inreal life, people met, nothing happened, and you wenthome. Or they went o� to Egypt and told you that theyweren’t a commitment kind of guy after six years. Thatwas real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis.”

“Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know.”

“لا يأتى الموت دائماً حسب موعده، أو كما هو مُخطط له.”

“You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.”

“Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it’s so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…”

“You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.”

“... It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different...”

“Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.”

“Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.”

“...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.”

“...But sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. Sometimes there were no compromises or bargains.”

“...maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through...”

“It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something, a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn, and that's why they're here...”

“Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river...”

“She wasn't on heroin then, but she was a mess. I thought I was going to put Humpty Dumpty back together and turn her into a princess. Instead, she turned into scrambled eggs, and always was”

“Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.”

“I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.”

“People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.”

“Her father said, whenever the subject came up, that if she'd lose some weight, she'd find a boyfriend. She knew that wasn't necessarily the case, since plenty of girls who had perfect figures and were half her size couldn't find a boyfriend. And other girls who were overweight were happily married, engaged or had significant others.Romance, she knew, wasn't directed tied to your weight, there were a lot of other factors.”

“We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.”

“I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria”

“And if they really fuck it up and do make a horrible mistake, which can happen to anyone, from any culture, you still have to sit back and watch from the sidelines. It's their life. What you need is a life of your own. You can't hang on to them forever and live theirs or stop them from making mistakes. That's the deal. Once they grow up, they belong to themselves, not to us.”

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”

“No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do”

“The judge arrived half an hour later with the file he had collected from his office on the way, signed several papers, had Sam sign them, the matron witness them; Josh cried, Norm cried, she cried, the judge grinned, and Timmie waved his teddy bear at the judge with a broad grin as they wheeled into the elevator. "So long!" he shouted, and when the doors closed, the judge was laughing and crying too.”

“She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.”

“Not everyone is meant to stay forever.”

“Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke . . . but yeah, I mean it. What do you think?”

“You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”

“Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.”

“And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.”

“For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic.”