Quotes from The Gift

Danielle Steel ·  275 pages

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“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.”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift


“Not everyone is meant to stay forever.”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift


“She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift


“On a June day, a young woman in a summer dress steps off a Chicago-bound bus into a small midwestern town. She doesn't intend to stay. She is just passing through. Yet her stopping here has a reason and it is part of a story that you will never forget.”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift


“The other girl was fifteen, and she was expecting”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift



“none of the agony it had caused her, the terror, or the heartbreak. “But”
― Danielle Steel, quote from The Gift


About the author

Danielle Steel
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date August 14, 1947
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