Author: Danielle Steel

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• Dorothy Thompson (1)
  • IN: The Award (2016) Fiction, Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Courage [is] nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Mary Baker Eddy (2)
  • IN: Rushing Waters (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
    FROM: Science and Health, (2014), Religious Text, US
  • IN: Winners (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What blesses one blesses all.
    FROM: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, (1875), Religious Text, US
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Dangerous Games (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
    FROM: King Lear, (1608), Play, UK
• NULL (6)
  • IN: Against All Odds (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together, there’s something you must remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.
    FROM: Pooh's Grand Adventures (The Search for Christopher Robin), (1997), Film, US
  • IN: Betrayal (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In each loss there is a gain, As in every gain there is a loss, And with each ending comes a new beginning.
    FROM: Buddhist proverb, (None), Religious Text, China
  • IN: Rogue (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: rogue: a mischievous person, a scamp, a rascal, an impish or playful young person.
    FROM: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, (1898), Definition, NULL
  • IN: Amazing Grace (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you become whole, everything will come to you.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China
  • IN: Bittersweet (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Never settle for less than your dreams. Somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL
  • IN: Honor Thyself (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you become whole, everything will come to you.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China
• Bible (2)
  • IN: Prodigal Son (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “… for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost and is found.”
    FROM: Luke 15:32, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Coming Out (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Proverbs 31:10: Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. 11: The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her….12: She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.13: … She worketh willingly with her hands.14: … She bringeth her food from afar.15: She riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household….16: She considereth a field and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.18: … her candle goeth not out by night.20: She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.25: Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.26: She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.27: She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.28: Her children arise up and call her blessed; her husband also praiseth her.29: Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. 31: Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
    FROM: Proverbs 31:10-31, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Blaise Pascal (1)
  • IN: A Perfect Life (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “L’amour n’a pas d’age.” Love has no age.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Laleh Shahideh (1)
  • IN: A Perfect Life (None) NULL, American
    EPIGRAPH: “True love is like a special language: You either speak it, or you don’t.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, NULL
• Anne Frank (1)
  • IN: Echoes (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
    FROM: The Diary of a Young Girl, (1947), Book, Germany
• The Talmud (1)
  • IN: Echoes (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whoever saves one life, saves a world entire.
    FROM: Talmud, (500), The Talmud, NULL
• Danielle Steel (4)
  • IN: Matters Of The Heart (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some of the greatest crimes against humanity have been committed in the name of love. A sociopath is a person who will destroy you, without a heart, without a conscience, without even a second glance. At first they are too perfect and too good to be true. Then, they remove your heart, and whatever else they want, with a scalpel. The operation they perform is brilliant, often but not always flawless. And when they’ve gotten whatever they came for in the first place, they leave you traumatized, stunned, and bleeding by the roadside, and silently move on, to do it again to someone else.
    FROM: NULL, (2008), Author, US
  • IN: Summer’s End (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The summer came like a whisper dancing in her hair, wishing he would care and dream and stop the carousel until he heard her truth until he brought her youth back laughing to her eyes, she wanted him to realize she loved him still until too late… but time would never wait, would never be… and she was free for sand castles and dreams, the summer schemes so sweet so new, so old… the story told, the heavens blend the love lives on ’til summer’s end.
    FROM: NULL, (1979), Author, US
  • IN: Five Days in Paris (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Five minutes …five days …and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment.
    FROM: NULL, (1995), Author, US
  • IN: The Kiss (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A single moment, etched in time, shining brightly like a star in a midnight sky, an aeon, an instant, a million years pressed into one, when all stands still and life explodes into infinite dreams, and all is changed forevermore, in the blink of an eye.
    FROM: "The Kiss", (2001), Author, US
• Shao Lin (1)
  • IN: Amazing Grace (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: In each loss there is a gain. As in every gain there is a loss. And with each ending comes a new beginning.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, China
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (2)
  • IN: Dating Game (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.One can only see clearly with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.
    FROM: Le Petit Prince, (1943), Novel, France
  • IN: Impossible (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What does that mean—“tame”?It is an act too often neglected …It means to establish ties.To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you on your part have no need of me …But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world …If you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow … Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! …Please—tame me!One only understands the things that one tames … there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship … If you want a friend, tame me …What must I do to tame you?You must be very patient … first you will sit down at a little distance from me—like that—in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me every day …As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one … But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.
    FROM: Le Petit Prince, (1943), Novel, France
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1)
  • IN: Journey (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … All my life long Over my shoulder have I looked at peace; And now I fain would lie in this long grass And close my eyes.
    FROM: "Journey", (1921), Poem, US
• Alexandre Dumas (1)
  • IN: Miracle (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … all human wisdom was contained in these two words: Wait and Hope!
    FROM: The Count of Monte Cristo, (1845), Novel, France
• Sylvia Plath (1)
  • IN: Passion's Promise (1976) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I shall bury the wounded like pupas, I shall count and bury the dead. Let their souls writhe in a dew, Incense in my track. The carriages rock, they are cradles. And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old facesStep to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.
    FROM: "Getting There", (1965), Poem, US
• Hermann Hesse (1)
  • IN: Ransom (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tenderness is more powerful than hardness. Water is more powerful than the rock. Love is more powerful than violence.
    FROM: Siddhartha, (1922), Novel, Germany
• Margaret Crosland Colette (1)
  • IN: Remembrance (1981) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A tomb is only an empty box. The one I love exists entirely in my memory, in a handkerchief that's still scented when I unfold it. in an intonation that I suddenly remember and listen to for a whole long moment, my head bent …… and what bitterness at first—but what calm relief later!—to discover, one day when spring trembles with cold, uneasiness and hope—that nothing has changed: neither the smell of the earth, nor the quiver of the brook, nor the shape, like rosebuds, of the chestnut shoots … to lean down in astonishment over the little filigree cups of the wild anemones, toward the carpet of endless violets—arc they mauve, arc they blue?—to let one's gaze caress the unforgotten outline of the mountains, to drink with a sigh of hesitation the piquant wine of a new sun … to live again!
    FROM: A Retreat from Love, (1907), Novel, France
• Andrew Boyd (1)
  • IN: Second Chance (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you've been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there's no right person, just different flavors of wrong.Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. It isn't until you finally run up against your deepest demons— your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you who you truly are—that you're ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you are looking for.You are looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the “right” wrong person—some-one you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.
    FROM: Daily Afflictions, (2002), Book, US
• Donna Rosenthal (1)
  • IN: Toxic Bachelors (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He said he'd always cherish me. She said she'd love me forever. He said he'd be my partner. She said she'd be my best friend. He said he'd listen to my stories. She said she'd laugh at my jokes. He said he'd always listen to me. She said she'd always talk to me. He said he'd always hug me. She said she'd always hold my hand. He said he'd always sleep with me. She said she'd always kiss me goodnight. He said he'd always love me. She said she'd never leave me.
    FROM: HE SAID/SHE SAID, (None), Poem, US
• Anonymous (1)
  • IN: Undercover (2015) Fiction, Romance Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The ideal person is not the one with whom one can be happy, but the one without whom one can't be happy.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], NULL

Cited by

• Danielle Steel (4)
  • IN: Matters Of The Heart (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Some of the greatest crimes against humanity have been committed in the name of love. A sociopath is a person who will destroy you, without a heart, without a conscience, without even a second glance. At first they are too perfect and too good to be true. Then, they remove your heart, and whatever else they want, with a scalpel. The operation they perform is brilliant, often but not always flawless. And when they’ve gotten whatever they came for in the first place, they leave you traumatized, stunned, and bleeding by the roadside, and silently move on, to do it again to someone else.
    FROM: NULL, (2008), Author, US
  • IN: Summer’s End (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The summer came like a whisper dancing in her hair, wishing he would care and dream and stop the carousel until he heard her truth until he brought her youth back laughing to her eyes, she wanted him to realize she loved him still until too late… but time would never wait, would never be… and she was free for sand castles and dreams, the summer schemes so sweet so new, so old… the story told, the heavens blend the love lives on ’til summer’s end.
    FROM: NULL, (1979), Author, US
  • IN: Five Days in Paris (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Five minutes …five days …and a lifetime forever changed in a single moment.
    FROM: NULL, (1995), Author, US
  • IN: The Kiss (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A single moment, etched in time, shining brightly like a star in a midnight sky, an aeon, an instant, a million years pressed into one, when all stands still and life explodes into infinite dreams, and all is changed forevermore, in the blink of an eye.
    FROM: "The Kiss", (2001), Author, US