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I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his. -- Danielle Steel
Means. And her small, chic penthouse apartment -- Danielle Steel
Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without Love, lust and romance will always be short-lived. -- Danielle Steel
I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old. -- Danielle Steel
She felt like she was leaving home, and had no idea when she'd be back again, if ever. -- Danielle Steel
All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise. -- Danielle Steel
But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future. -- Danielle Steel
We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us. -- Danielle Steel
Whoever saves one life, saves a world entire." - Talmud -- Danielle Steel
Feelings aren't sensible.
always," her mother said gently. "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 -- Danielle Steel
It's been very hard, after being mostly a mom, to develop an adult life of my own. And not being married anymore, I have to come up with challenges. -- Danielle Steel
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life. -- Danielle Steel
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. -- Danielle Steel
Love is a shooting star that lands in your heart, and lives forever. -- Danielle Steel
Whatever we decide we don't want in life (whether it's dating, houses, neighborhoods, jobs, partners, or dogs), the fates usually intervene to open our eyes and prove us wrong. -- Danielle Steel
It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash. -- Danielle Steel
it's not easy to meet good people -- Danielle Steel
People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless. -- Danielle Steel
I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'. -- Danielle Steel
I work too hard and don't play enough. -- Danielle Steel
Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other. -- Danielle Steel
Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again. -- Danielle Steel
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 -- Danielle Steel
He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered. -- Danielle Steel
and French-braided hair, -- Danielle Steel
May the surprises in your lives always be good ones.
And may the people in your lives treat you kindly and fairly.
And may the choices and sacrifices you make in your lives be the right ones for you.
May you be blessed in every way, and happy in your lives. -- Danielle Steel
What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the shortest possible time. -- Danielle Steel
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 -- Danielle Steel
His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person. -- Danielle Steel
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. -- Danielle Steel
It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. ... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future. -- Danielle Steel
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. -- Danielle Steel
I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't. -- Danielle Steel
All rights reserved. No part of this book may -- Danielle Steel
We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God. -- Danielle Steel
I love you and I will until the end of time.And just as she said the words, two bright stars drifted past them overhead and disappeared into the night sky together ... -- Danielle Steel
Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them -- Danielle Steel
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? -- Danielle Steel
Do you sit home like the Virgin Mary waiting for Prince Charming to come along? Or do you go out with Prince not-so-charming and at least get out of the house and have some fun while you wait for the right guy to come along? -- Danielle Steel
Though she were another person, a deus ex machina -- Danielle Steel
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 -- Danielle Steel
Yesterday's happenings are the reasons of Today's situation. -- Danielle Steel
She was starving for friendship. -- Danielle Steel
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 -- Danielle Steel
followed her outside, deeply moved. -- Danielle Steel
another month. They would be back in the -- Danielle Steel
I never wanted to settle for 'good enough.' I wanted 'great' or nothing. -- Danielle Steel
anything interesting to save my life, just -- Danielle Steel
I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful. -- Danielle Steel
up shells, and waded at the water's edge, -- Danielle Steel
Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go. -- Danielle Steel
Be at ease with him. What they shared had none of the pain or the passion or -- Danielle Steel
I fear that once you put weapons in men's hands, they don't let go of them easily. -- Danielle Steel
been through. She was a woman who -- Danielle Steel
I decided I would never do interviews again. -- Danielle Steel
You can't have nine children and not be organized. Otherwise it just looks like Appalachia. -- Danielle Steel
Nothing is irreversible except
dying. -- Danielle Steel
Don't hate anyone," Beata said quietly. "It's too much work. And it only poisons you. -- Danielle Steel
Anyway. He plays the same old stuff every time. I'll have Charlie let him -- Danielle Steel
I don't want to make a mistake and marry the wrong woman. I'd rather be alone. -- Danielle Steel
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down. -- Danielle Steel
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 ... -- Danielle Steel
Actually, being married to me probably would be something of a joke ... but yeah, I mean it. What do you think? -- Danielle Steel
You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along. -- Danielle Steel
My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again. -- Danielle Steel
I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools. -- Danielle Steel
can rent a bed. It's either -- Danielle Steel
She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. -- Danielle Steel
The other girl was fifteen, and she was expecting -- Danielle Steel
Look at Christ on the cross. Think of the challenge that must have been for Him. The agony of betrayal by people He had trusted, and death. And afterward came the resurrection. He proved that no challenge, no matter how great, could end His love for us. -- Danielle Steel
I was only one person among many. None of us made a difference individually, but together we all did." It was the true meaning of community. -- Danielle Steel
Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. -- Danielle Steel
It's all about fate and destiny, and opening the right door at the right time, and having the guts to walk through it. It's amazing how everything changes in the blink of an eye. -- Danielle Steel
Can a recovering alcoholic and a nun be happy together? Stay tuned. -- Danielle Steel
Here." "Yeah," she said, as tears rolled down her cheeks again, "and you love Liz too. I could see it." She started to sob then and buried her face in his -- Danielle Steel
Five minutes ... five days ... and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment. -- Danielle Steel
life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir -- Danielle Steel
What's ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn't they? -- Danielle Steel
sank, at the realization of what had really -- Danielle Steel
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. -- Danielle Steel
It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person. -- Danielle Steel
I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to. -- Danielle Steel
It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." - Anne Frank -- Danielle Steel
I'm still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I've been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don't think we have a right to do that. -- Danielle Steel
But sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. Sometimes there were no compromises or bargains. -- Danielle Steel
It's difficult to talk to people ... I walk into a room and I'm Danielle Steel, and whatever I say is going to be taken apart. -- Danielle Steel
I still have this crazy idea -- Danielle Steel
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. -- Danielle Steel
the essence of prayer is not to think a lot, but to love a lot. -- Danielle Steel
A man who really likes you and cares about you won't care about your weight one way or another. -- Danielle Steel
Have you ever been to Chicago? he asked -- Danielle Steel
This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that. -- Danielle Steel
Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day
you wake up and you're someplace you don't want to
be, with someone you realize you don't know. -- Danielle Steel
There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go ... -- Danielle Steel
time she decorated the nursery in neutral -- Danielle Steel
Life had a way of working out. The lid-for-every-pot theory seemed to work, if you waited long enough and were patient. -- Danielle Steel
That terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else. -- Danielle Steel
Some things in life are worth waiting for. -- Danielle Steel
She'd gotten in the mail: the belief that she was -- Danielle Steel
and all the people who were -- Danielle Steel
If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance -- Danielle Steel
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 ... -- Danielle Steel
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. -- Danielle Steel
From the accident, and she seemed weak to him. It -- Danielle Steel
Things work out the way they're meant to -- Danielle Steel
They were one flame made out of two people, with a love that had endured all the challenges and tragedies of life. But they were still standing, still alive, and still whole. -- Danielle Steel
Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it. -- Danielle Steel
Them made a remarkable team. Jade and David allowed Timmie to -- Danielle Steel
Victoria heard across the wedding reception dance floor "You're loveable"! -- Danielle Steel
For the moment, my life is a little schizophrenic. -- Danielle Steel
Them. She's much too nice about it, but that's the way she is. Leslie almost said that that was why he loved her, but caught -- Danielle Steel
You had help. He made you sick, or think you were, so he could control you. What does it say in the Bible, something about you'll get back the years the locust hath eaten? That's true for both of us. We lost a lot, but look what we have now. -- Danielle Steel
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 ... -- Danielle Steel
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. -- Danielle Steel
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for. -- Danielle Steel
Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely. -- Danielle Steel
Gets aggressive with him. He's very hurt by the -- Danielle Steel
Part of being an adult, someone told me once, is accepting your parents as they are, with all their failings. -- Danielle Steel
Some people are just different, even in the same family. -- Danielle Steel
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. -- Danielle Steel
Simon, she was more independent -- Danielle Steel
Life wasn't always easy, and had a way of filing down the sharp corners and rough edges. -- Danielle Steel
And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her. -- Danielle Steel
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. -- Danielle Steel
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous. -- Danielle Steel
Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most. -- Danielle Steel
There's a lid for every pot ... You Just have to find yours. -Avery -- Danielle Steel
I move between San Francisco and Paris ... I have a wonderful beach house in California. -- Danielle Steel
Carpe diem. It sounds like that's what you're -- Danielle Steel
Much more exotic life than I do. Where do you come up with -- Danielle Steel
Career, his accomplishments, his victories, the kind of friend he was, and the kind of father, except her. But she did a good job. Most of the -- Danielle Steel
Phrased it. The state sends him to prison, and the church gives you an apology in the -- Danielle Steel
And with courage came freedom. -- Danielle Steel
I do everything for everyone to make their lives easier and better and then I don't know who I am, and they don't care. I'm the full-service wife and mom, -- Danielle Steel
I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time. -- Danielle Steel
he had to move to L.A., on her terms. And he -- Danielle Steel
Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results. -- Danielle Steel
of you still lost in the darkness, may your traveling companions -- Danielle Steel
I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work. -- Danielle Steel
I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I'm one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun - my children are horrified! -- Danielle Steel
smiling. "Are you in the army?" she inquired. He -- Danielle Steel
taking the money. She made it sound like more -- Danielle Steel
Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly. -- Danielle Steel
got involved in class-action suits that went on for years. He -- Danielle Steel
When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don't do it until you're ready. -- Danielle Steel
Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so. -- Danielle Steel
It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong. -- Danielle Steel
I don't think we can do it any other way," Nick said practically. "The circus is going to make a big fuss about it." It was all part of the hype of being circus stars, but -- Danielle Steel
No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do -- Danielle Steel
I'm a terribly irresponsible eater - I love soft-boiled eggs and chocolate. I never met a chocolate I could not eat. -- Danielle Steel
As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin -- Danielle Steel
a break at lunchtime. She hated -- Danielle Steel
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 ... -- Danielle Steel
You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you. -- Danielle Steel
Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed -- Danielle Steel
I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious. -- Danielle Steel
generous statement -- Danielle Steel
the community, and respected. She -- Danielle Steel
established her own interior design firm years -- Danielle Steel
There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it. -- Danielle Steel
He may not have been her Prince Charming, but he had definitely just exposed himself as Prince Shit. -- Danielle Steel
I wish I were braver, although I try. -- Danielle Steel
happened. And yet, why did she feel -- Danielle Steel
furniture, but all the lights -- Danielle Steel
I studied literature design and fashion design. -- Danielle Steel
I don't just want to catch some guy and have a bunch of kids. I want to make something of myself. -- Danielle Steel
I'd love to be a writer one day -- Danielle Steel
I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with. -- Danielle Steel
Murdered. Michael had left a trail of bodies -- Danielle Steel
Together they were more than they each were alone. They didn't take away from each other, they added all that they were. -- Danielle Steel
I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace. -- Danielle Steel
there, at the casino. He's a very spiritual -- Danielle Steel
There were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers. -- Danielle Steel
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. -- Danielle Steel
Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time. -- Danielle Steel
You can't lose your identity unless you give it up. No one can take it from you, -- Danielle Steel
The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can't be happy. - Anonymous -- Danielle Steel
more serious of the twins, and Kezia was -- Danielle Steel
The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. -- Danielle Steel
Not everyone is meant to stay forever. -- Danielle Steel
I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. -- Danielle Steel
Not all forms of abuse leave bruises. -- Danielle Steel
Brought it back to her desk to go over her research for the next -- Danielle Steel
With you all day and night while I'm trying to graduate. -- Danielle Steel
Close and then started to put -- Danielle Steel
objects that couldn't be -- Danielle Steel
had an affair." She was -- Danielle Steel
that way, the models would be -- Danielle Steel
Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. -- Danielle Steel
him." She always told herself -- Danielle Steel
I started writing stories as a child. -- Danielle Steel
Dreading the trip. I've never seen so much medicine and -- Danielle Steel
One and everything's a mess, and one of my -- Danielle Steel
Smoke a cigar. Sophie had heard him come in and found him there. She was surprised he -- Danielle Steel
You have more balls than a Christmas tree. -- Danielle Steel
She wanted to ask him how his -- Danielle Steel
but neither of them seemed -- Danielle Steel
It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible. -- Danielle Steel
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable ... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. -- Danielle Steel
She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well. -- Danielle Steel
And Nick was sure Christianna's family was upset -- Danielle Steel
I once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting. -- Danielle Steel
the future, Hugues -- Danielle Steel
If it's meant to be, they'll find a way to make it work eventually. -- Danielle Steel
They just had to be patient. Destiny would bring them what they needed, yet again. -- Danielle Steel
I'm surprisingly practical in much of my life, but not when it comes to my shoes. -- Danielle Steel
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. -- Danielle Steel
An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be. -- Danielle Steel
She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese. -- Danielle Steel
Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings. -- Danielle Steel
My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them. -- Danielle Steel
There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco] -- Danielle Steel
When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy. -- Danielle Steel
her, and it seemed wiser not to see each -- Danielle Steel
Pebble Beach. Jeff and -- Danielle Steel
abandoned their mother for the gorgeous girl who had shared -- Danielle Steel
I always try to write about believable people. -- Danielle Steel
Ellen ran their home precisely the way -- Danielle Steel
I'm astonished by my success. -- Danielle Steel
the conversation with the two musicians, -- Danielle Steel
I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women. -- Danielle Steel
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night. -- Danielle Steel
You see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future -- Danielle Steel
sometimes that happened, but like everyone else, he was grateful she had -- Danielle Steel
an ugly premonition -- Danielle Steel
None of the agony it had caused her, the terror, or the heartbreak. But -- Danielle Steel
At the moment, I'm enjoying John Grisham quite a bit. -- Danielle Steel
I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up. -- Danielle Steel
I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it. -- Danielle Steel
I believe in love at first sight for houses - but not for people. -- Danielle Steel
But she felt like she had to earn him, and she hadn't. Not yet. And maybe never, she admitted to herself. -- Danielle Steel
She didn't have an uncomfortable moment -- Danielle Steel
doors. The bus started up, and the bridal -- Danielle Steel
She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco. -- Danielle Steel
Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won't heal till you do. You haven't yet." They both knew that was true. "You can't move ahead until you bury the past. -- Danielle Steel
seemed silly to Faith. And offensive -- Danielle Steel
their arrangement with -- Danielle Steel
True in eighth grade, when Gracie was in first grade. -- Danielle Steel
minutes to get home, unlike the morning. -- Danielle Steel
She's all right now. We just want to get her -- Danielle Steel
I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there. -- Danielle Steel
I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. -- Danielle Steel
