The Stars Shine Down Quotes

“When you’re trying to hide something,” Paul Martin advised, “always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you’re doing anything wrong.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: An Insecure, Ruthless Billionaire's Fight to Save Everything She Won

“Two years later, when Lara sold out her real estate holdings, she had a certified cheque for three million dollars. She was twenty-one years old.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: A captivatingc romanti suspense novel set in the world of real estate

“I create with my mind. I don’t physically put up a building, but I make it possible. I dream a dream of bricks and concrete and steel, and make it come true. I create jobs for hundreds of people; architects and bricklayers and designers and carpenters and plumbers. Because of me, they’re able to support their families. I give people beautiful surroundings to live in and make them comfortable. I build attractive stores where people can shop and buy things they need. I build monuments to the future.’ She smiled, sheepishly. ‘I didn’t mean to make a speech.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: A captivatingc romanti suspense novel set in the world of real estate

“When you’re trying to hide something,’ Paul Martin advised, ‘always do it out in the open. Then no one will believe you’re doing anything wrong.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: A captivatingc romanti suspense novel set in the world of real estate

“Paul Martin took his marriage vows seriously. For instance, he would never have dreamed of dishonouring his wife by taking her and his mistress to the same restaurant. His marriage was one part of his life, his affairs were another.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: A captivatingc romanti suspense novel set in the world of real estate

“You must understand something, Mr Thompson. What I do has nothing to do with the money or the bricks and steel that make a building. It’s the people who matter. I’m able to give them a comfortable place to work or to live, a place where they can raise families and have decent lives. That’s what was important to my father, and it became important to me.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: A captivatingc romanti suspense novel set in the world of real estate

“We’ll start with these. I want you to listen carefully to the allegro in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. Twenty-one in C, Kochel 467, and the adagio in Brahms Piano Concerto No. One, and the moderato in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. Two in C Minor, Opus Eighteen, and finally, the romanze in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. One. They’re all marked.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: An Insecure, Ruthless Billionaire's Fight to Save Everything She Won

“I’m changing the name. It’s going to be called the Cameron Palace.’ Lara felt a thrill just saying the words. It was almost a sexual feeling. Her name was going to be on a building for all the world to see.”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: A captivatingc romanti suspense novel set in the world of real estate

“Legend had it that the word Mafia was coined after an incident where a young girl was raped and murdered, and her anguished mother ran into the night screaming for her daughter, ‘Ma fia! Ma fia!”
― Sidney Sheldon, The Stars Shine Down: A captivatingc romanti suspense novel set in the world of real estate