Quotes from Danielle Steel

Not everyone is meant to stay forever.

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.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.

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

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

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

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

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

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

There was something much greater she needed to feed her soul, and perhaps one day soon she would go...

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.

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

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.

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

The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.