Quotes from Danielle Steel

When the past is your enemy, all you have is the present.

Look what he married. Would you want to be her? She's a nice woman, but her greatest accomplishment is making three-dimensional snowflakes and Easter bunnies from Martha Stewart's book. Come on, Fiona, you don't want to be that.

furniture, but all the lights

The next day they took a car and driver to the town of Parabiago. There were three

Simon, she was more independent

suggest dinner again before he left her at the gallery and drove back to St. Paul de Vence. He liked her, but his life didn't hang on whether he had dinner with her.

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

But the soldier sitting next to her laughed at her when she asked if it was a national holiday. "Yeah, you could call it that, I guess. They call this a war. That's artillery … those are tracer bullets going off … oh … I'd say somewhere in the vicinity of Bien Hoa.… Lady, you're gonna love it here. We got fireworks

I still have this crazy idea

She was starving for friendship.

from California. San Francisco. And had

the future, Hugues

we break up over this? I don't think

objects that couldn't be

Hammett, David Morrell, Michael Crichton, and even Georges Simenon translations.

Max was looking out the window, with silent tears running down his face, thinking how hard it must be to be a woman, always having to be strong and comfort others, and how lonely it was to be a man. —

You know it has," she

We've got a girls' chorus of fourteen and they're running all over the place, with a chaperone who's driving us nuts and letting them do whatever they want. We've got a guy with a baby that hasn't stopped screaming since we took off, and one of our toilets just broke. You people have the good life up here.

la vida era vivir, no acurrucarse en un rincón demasiado asustada, cansada o decepcionada como para moverse o probar nada nuevo.

Kids have strange loyalties.

her, and it seemed wiser not to see each

of the next few months. Jane would be in the hospital for at least six weeks and a wheelchair for months after that. There was no way she could manage the stairs of their San Francisco house in a wheelchair, nor could Nanny. They would have to stay in Napa, and he didn't hate the idea for entirely other reasons. 'Why don't you stay out

anyway. He plays the same old stuff every time. I'll have Charlie let him

They lost the hope of a better relationship with him when he died. They don't want to remember the truth right now." Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. "Country." Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.