Sidney Sheldon

“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”

“Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.”

“Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!”

“We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.”

“But there was not a police car in sight. Sure, Tracy thought in disgust. They’re never around when you need them.”

“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.”

“Não me cantem canções da luz do dia / Pois o sol é o inimigo dos amantes / Cantem das sombras e da escuridão / E das lembranças da meia-noite.”

“Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.”

“Do you always throw your money away like this?""Only when I'm in love,”

“You know, it's not fair. Women are judged inferior until we prove ourselves, and men are judged superior until they prove what assholes they are.”

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”

“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”

“Inspector Tinou sat silent. The Greek police department did not welcome interference from other countries in their affairs. Particularly Americans. They are always too-sou, so sure of themselves.”

“Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave.”

“She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.”

“I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.”

“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

“Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. ”

“You don't know what can happen tomorrow. Life is like a novel, isn't it? It's filled with suspense. You never know what's going to happen until you turn the page.”

“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”

“Being poor is only romantic in books.”

“I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life inyour hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier thanthat?”

“If. A two-letter word for futility.”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”

“I'm a woman. I have a right to change my mind.”

“You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”

“Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”

“God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.”

“the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.”

“Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.”

“When they die no one will ever know that once they lived.”

“A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.”

“Nothing lasts forever.”