Top 60 Lucinda Riley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Once you have made a decision and there is no turning back, acceptance is the only comfort.”

— Lucinda Riley

2. “Never let fear decide your destiny.”

— Lucinda Riley

3. “I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads – that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.”

— Lucinda Riley

4. “And remember, someone once told me that life only throws at you what it feels you can deal with.”

— Lucinda Riley

5. “She pulled off Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.”

— Lucinda Riley

6. “Negative thought brings negative action.”

— Lucinda Riley

7. “And what’s wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?”

— Lucinda Riley

8. “Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.”

— Lucinda Riley

9. “When I loose my faith in Human nature, I put my faith in Nature-.”

— Lucinda Riley

10. “In moments of weakness, you will find your greatest strength.”

— Lucinda Riley

11. “When you trust your instincts, they’re often proved right.”

— Lucinda Riley

12. “I knew that, although my life had been shaped by events out of my control, it was I who had chosen to react to them in the way I had.”

— Lucinda Riley

13. “Money and success can never make you happy if your heart is closed.”

— Lucinda Riley

14. “As you well know, people choose to became a victim or a hero.”

— Lucinda Riley

15. “And actually, Pa was wrong, because even if other people couldn’t take talent away from you, they could destroy your confidence with their negative comments and mess with your brain, so you didn’t know who you were any more or how to please anyone, least of all yourself.”

— Lucinda Riley

16. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are going’ – Laozi. Bonne chance, boy.”

— Lucinda Riley

17. “How can these stories from all over the world be so similar? I thought suddenly. I mean, when they were originally told all over those thousands of years ago, it wasn’t like the Greeks could send an email to the Aboriginal people, or the Mayans in Mexico could talk on the phone to the Japanese. Could there actually be a bigger link between heaven and earth than I’d thought?”

— Lucinda Riley

18. “Well, dreams take time to come true and even then, they’re not always in the places we expect to find them. I suppose we have to be patient and concentrate on what we have today.”

— Lucinda Riley

19. “Heinz baked beans and a gigantic bar of Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut chocolate.”

— Lucinda Riley

20. “I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales – the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living – will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother and a Wicked Witch.”

— Lucinda Riley

21. “Wir teilen einen Augenblick der Zeit. Wie beim Universum gibt es keinen Anfang und kein Ende. Wir sind einfach.”

— Lucinda Riley

22. “I wish that you will find love. It is the only thing in life that makes the pain of being alive bearable.”

— Lucinda Riley

23. “Keep your feet on the fresh carpet of the earth, but raise your mind to the windows of the universe.”

— Lucinda Riley

24. “Love is both the most selfish and unselfish emotion in the world, Celaeno, and its two facets cannot be separated. The need in oneself battles against the wish for the loved one to be happy.”

— Lucinda Riley

25. “As is always the way in fairy tales, bad has to happen as well as good. We human beings survive on hope that those good moments will come again.”

— Lucinda Riley

26. “There should always be a balance in life, and you must try to find that in yours. Then you might find the happiness you seek.”

— Lucinda Riley

27. “People have asked me why I seem to have no fear. It’s apparently that which stops so many people from doing what they need to make their life happier. Well, I don’t really have the answer, but maybe if one isn’t afraid of ghosts or, if fact, death itself, which is the worst thing that can happen to a human being, there isn’t much else left to be frightened of.”

— Lucinda Riley

28. “Each of us thinks that our own mistake is the worst, because we have made it. We all live with guilt for our actions, Maia. Especially if we have chosen to keep them inside us for as long as you have. I’m sitting here feeling only sadness for you, not disapproval. And I really think that anyone else who heard your story would feel the same. It’s only you who blames yourself.”

— Lucinda Riley

29. “My father always said that to push a rock an inch in a lifetime was the same as throwing a hundred pebbles into the sea every day. Big change comes slowly, but it will come.”

— Lucinda Riley

30. “Everyone makes mistakes, it’s part of the human learning curve, as long as you do learn from them.”

— Lucinda Riley

31. “And that the love of a parent for a child is the most powerful force on earth.”

— Lucinda Riley

32. “In questo momento, penso con tristezza, io sono l’aeroplano, libera di attraversare il mondo e di atterrare ovunque io decida. Vorrei solo che qualcuno stabilisse il mio percorso di volo per me.”

— Lucinda Riley

33. “I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died...”

— Lucinda Riley

34. “So many humans wandered round in circles, wishing for a future they were too fearful to seize.”

— Lucinda Riley

35. “It’s amazing how beauty can mask so many flaws.”

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36. “Remember that panic stifles your instincts and makes you blind.”

— Lucinda Riley

37. “Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each.”

— Lucinda Riley

38. “The young are irritated by stories of the past; they wish to live only in the present, just as I did when I was their age. I.”

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39. “Feelings I had for him had emerged suddenly, like the tight bud of a rose that blossoms magically overnight into a glorious colour.”

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40. “No hope is false, Atlas. Hope is a choice. Hope means hoping even when things seem hopeless. Choose to be hopeful, and amazing things can happen.”

— Lucinda Riley

41. “Maia, the beauty; Ally, the leader; Star, the peacemaker; CeCe, the pragmatist; Tiggy, the nurturer; and Electra, the fireball.”

— Lucinda Riley

42. “A human being without love is akin to a rosebud without water. It will survive for a time, but never open into full bloom.”

— Lucinda Riley

43. “Herr Bayer responded. As Anna listened.”

— Lucinda Riley

44. “That there are all kinds of love, and it arrives in different shapes and forms. It can be earned, but not paid for. It can be given, but never bought. And once it’s truly there, it holds fast. This love thing.”

— Lucinda Riley

45. “Vieze pannen waren een teken dat dingen uit de hand begonnen te lopen...”

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46. “Humans are bound to one another, long before they meet in the physical world.”

— Lucinda Riley

47. “Nothing sings as sweetly as love, or burns quite like betrayal.”

— Lucinda Riley

48. “Everyone else out there in the world knew who they were, they carried their histories inside them everywhere they went; whereas she was just an empty husk of nothing masquerading as a human being.”

— Lucinda Riley

49. “Far better silence from one whose company you enjoy, than constant chatter from someone who irritates te hell out of you.”

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50. “After the hardy baldness of the Norfolk landscape, which Julia appreciated had its own raw beauty, the Cote d’Azur offered spectacular, colorful intricacy. It was rather like comparing a rough diamond to an exquisitely fashioned and polished sapphire, yet they both had their own unique charms.”

— Lucinda Riley