Quotes from Danielle Steel

It was the cruelest of destiny's tricks, the death of a young person.

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.

I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.

Can a recovering alcoholic and a nun be happy together? Stay tuned.

Zaista su imali sre?u da se sretnu. Našli su ono za ?ime su tragali i borili se da to zadrže, sve dok nisu stigli u sigurnu luku i kona?no umakli svim olujama. Svi djeli?i su bili spojeni u cjelinu i upleteni u novu tkaninu njihovih života

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance.

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.

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Most of us don't see it that way, but there are chapters in our lives," he said quietly. "We want to believe that the same characters will be in the story forever. But it rarely seems to work out that way. Some characters leave the story, others come along. It keeps it lively and surprising, don't you think?

God places the solitary in families,' comforting words from the Bible … families, by blood, by obligation, by necessity, by desire … and sometimes, if one is very lucky, by love.

I never wanted to settle for 'good enough.' I wanted 'great' or nothing.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." —SOURCE UNKNOWN

upset or disturb them. The minor problems they encountered were always instantly buffered and solved. Annabelle had grown up in a sacred, golden world, a happy child, among kind, loving people. The past few months had been exciting for her, although tempered by a recent disappointment.

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.

I think a lot of women will be in your situation. They're an important part of the workforce now, and they won't want to give that up when the men come home. They've gotten some independence, even if they're not paid as well as men. That's not fair, but at least they've gotten out of the kitchen, and into offices and factories. It's a big step for women.

An acceptance of life as it really was, rather than trying to force it to be what one wanted, and it never could be.

you should never prepare for old age, just let it happen and deal with it when it does.

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.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." —SOURCE

There are no mysteries, only unanswered questions that have no answers, and the memory of people who enter and leave our lives, for a short or long time, and stay only as long as they are meant to. We cannot change the patterns of life, but only observe them, and bend to their will with grace.

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.

The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can't be happy. —Anonymous

Together they were more than they each were alone. They didn't take away from each other, they added all that they were.