Quotes from Danielle Steel

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.

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.

temos que aproveitar o pouco tempo que temos com cada pessoa que nos é querida, e amar todos os amores até quando nos é permitido.

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

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

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

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.

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

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.

She looked long and lean and beautiful, and she was totally unaware of her looks as she called him. She had lived in a world of extraordinary-looking people for so long, and hers was a life of the mind rather than the beauty of face and body. She never thought about it, which somehow made her even more attractive.

Never settle for less than your dreams. Somewhere, sometime,someday,somehow, you'll find them.

A man who really likes you and cares about you won't care about your weight one way or another.

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.

I'd love to be a writer one day

Five minutes …five days …and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment.

Love is a shoot star that lands in your heart, and lives forever.

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o? to Egypt and told you that they weren't a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis.

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

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

You have to move forward in life. You can't sit in the same place, unless you want to, that's a choice too. But you can't sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable." Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. "Country." Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

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.

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.

She had no idea where the future would lead her or what it would look like, but whatever happened, she was determined to survive it.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.