Top 180 Danielle Steel Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you’ll find them.”

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2. “Some things in life are worth waiting for.”

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3. “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.”

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4. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.”

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5. “Sometimes, if you aren’t sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.”

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6. “Don’t worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “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.”

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9. “Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.”

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

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11. “If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”

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12. “Things work out the way they’re meant to.”

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13. “Don’t make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.”

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14. “If it’s meant to be, they’ll find a way to make it work eventually.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “I work too hard and don’t play enough.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “Not everyone is meant to stay forever.”

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19. “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.”

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20. “Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them.”

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21. “You’d be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.”

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

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23. “It’s hard being visible, so I’ve made myself invisible.”

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24. “Life, a good life, a great life is about “Why not?” May we never forget it.”

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25. “People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.”

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26. “There was nothing you couldn’t do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.”

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27. “I never met a chocolate I could not eat.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.”

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31. “Love is a shooting star that lands in your heart, and lives forever.”

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32. “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?”

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33. “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.”

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34. “Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.”

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35. “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 lives.”

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36. “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.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “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.”

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

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41. “You have more balls than a Christmas tree.”

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

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43. “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.”

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44. “I started writing stories as a child.”

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45. “Whatever age you are,” her mother said tartly, “age is just a number, and numbers have no power over you, unless you allow them to. You can feel ‘too old’ at any age, if you let yourself. You’re never too old or too young for anything, you’re just the right age.”

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46. “What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?”

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47. “I grew up with my father, so I know more about cars than most women.”

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48. “I studied literature design and fashion design.”

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49. “I’m astonished by my success.”

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50. “A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.”

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