Top 180 Danielle Steel Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Life wasn’t always easy, and had a way of filing down the sharp corners and rough edges.”

— Danielle Steel

152. “She wore a dress the same color as her eyes her father brought her from San Francisco.”

— Danielle Steel

153. “Coming Home. Well darling... sometimes God loves people, specially much and he feels they have done everything they had to do, and then he takes them up to Heaven with him. Does he love everybody that much? Yes, he loves everybody, but he lets some people stay here for a very long time. And other people, he takes up with him a little sooner.”

— Danielle Steel

154. “Men don’t sleep with you when they love you, but they do sleep with you without a second thought when they don’t.”

— Danielle Steel

155. “The grapes he grew were living beings to him, to be cherished and nourished and protected. And he felt the same way about his wife. He cherished her like a precious gift, and she blossomed and thrived in the warmth of his love, and loved him just as deeply.”

— Danielle Steel

156. “She felt lately as though she had served her purpose, done her job, and been dispensed with, not only by her children, but by her husband as well.”

— Danielle Steel

157. “I am afraid of other things, of a world that allows a travesty to exist like the one we just lived, where brother betrays brother and nothing is safe or true or right. We allowed that to happen. We gave our country away. We allowed evil to exist and to prosper.”

— Danielle Steel

158. “And with courage came freedom.”

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159. “The world goes on. People are born, and die, and others are born after them. It is only our own sadness that is so painful.”

— Danielle Steel

160. “He didn’t know it, but he had saved her, and hopefully he would never know the dire straits she’d been in when he met her. She had come to the Napa Valley to find a man like him. She had set her sights on Sam Marshall, but.”

— Danielle Steel

161. “You do what you’re called on to do, to the best of your abilities. The rest always takes care of itself.”

— Danielle Steel

162. “Oh sweet girl,” he said, feeling his heart go out to her, giving her everything he had tried to keep from her, and suddenly he knew what had been wrong between them. He had never dared to lover her.”

— Danielle Steel

163. “And even under extreme tension, which he had been under, too, he had been polite, considerate, respectful, and kind at all times.”

— Danielle Steel

164. “This was the way it was meant to be, when parents slipped gently away, and the next generations moved on.”

— Danielle Steel

165. “Sadly enough, one rarely marries the candlelight and champagne. One marries instead the blue jeans and rumpled t-shirts, the Coca Cola and burnt toast, and one puts away the candlelight and champagne in a magic box. In the long run, I guess Coca Cola and burnt toast are easier to live with.”

— Danielle Steel

166. “Fight for what you believe in, Spencer,” he always told her. “Never give up.” “Don’t sell yourself short.” “Even if you’re the only one left standing, keep fighting.”

— Danielle Steel

167. “Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It’s what you do about it and how you handle it that matters.”

— Danielle Steel

168. “He had given Daphne a spectacular diamond bracelet before she left, and a ruby heart pin that he had bought for her at Fred Leighton. Sam had always been generous and he had bought something pretty for Alex too, though nothing quite as important. He had bought her a very handsome Bulgari watch that he knew she’d wanted for a while, but none of the thoughtful little things that expressed his interest and affection. He didn’t want to mislead her. There.”

— Danielle Steel

169. “We all have our own crazy ideas about what makes relationships work. The trick seems to be finding someone with similar ideas, or compatible ones at least.”

— Danielle Steel

170. “What is a date? A date is when two people, who hardly know each other, go out to dinner, and push their food around their plates nervously, while trying to ask as many questions as possible in the shortest possible time.”

— Danielle Steel

171. “But you have to believe in something. Yourself first of all. Each other. And if you’re lucky, the prince and princess live to be very old.”

— Danielle Steel

172. “But she was as they always were: strong, quiet, determined to prevail no matter what it cost them, brave in the face of sorrow.”

— Danielle Steel

173. “They shut him out from everything they did, and in his isolation, he had sought solace in painting.”

— Danielle Steel

174. “She had wished for someone to love, and who would love her, to share her life with.”

— Danielle Steel

175. “Even coming to Paris had been a lovely gesture, but it was still wild and impulsive, and did not respect what she’d asked him, to stay away from her, and forget the moment of insanity they had indulged in London.”

— Danielle Steel

176. “No one could touch her now, and nothing would stop her. And surely not his daughter this time, she was such an innocent. Camille was no match for her. It was all going to be easy now.”

— Danielle Steel

177. “I fear that once you put weapons in men’s hands, they don’t let go of them easily.”

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178. “You just do the best you can and love them a lot, no matter what.” And let them go when it was time, which was the hardest of all.”

— Danielle Steel

179. “I was only one person among many. None of us made a difference individually, but together we all did.” It was the true meaning of community.”

— Danielle Steel

180. “Navigating the shoals of grief had become familiar to her. She knew from losing Arthur that losing someone was a process, you didn’t let go all at once, you let go inch by inch, or millimeter by millimeter. It had taken her a year after Arthur to feel human again.”

— Danielle Steel

181. “I think that’s how life works. Just when you think you have it all set up and perfectly arranged, someone sneezes, or God blows on it, and all the building blocks come tumbling down.”

— Danielle Steel

182. “Men who fall in love with her do so at their own risk and peril. They usually know it, or suspect it, but they can’t resist the gamble. She brings them to the edge of insanity, which is always a dangerous thing. If any man ever makes you feel crazy and.”

— Danielle Steel

183. “Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It’s what.”

— Danielle Steel

184. “Joy was the most exciting woman he’d ever met, with a diversity of talents.”

— Danielle Steel

185. “They had that special bond that sometimes exists between mothers and sons, as confidants and friends.”

— Danielle Steel

186. “And there are programs in every city designed to assist them to get off the streets, or so they say. But in truth only the most functional among the homeless are able to access these programs. Lines are endless, forms are impossible to decipher, qualifications can’t be met, standards don’t apply.”

— Danielle Steel

187. “As the director of one of the agencies providing free mental health services says, the Audubon Society spends more time, care, and money counting birds than we do counting homeless people.”

— Danielle Steel

188. “You just can’t give up. Things can change at any moment, just like they did for me.”

— Danielle Steel